Should schools teach children how to be good parents?
The question
Some people believe that schools should teach children how to become good parents. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
How to answer it
The strongest line is a qualified agreement that gets specific about content: child development, infant health and the practical realities of money and sleep can be taught; values and warmth cannot. Address the obvious objection — that this belongs to families — by pointing out that families pass on whatever they happened to receive, which is exactly the case for a shared baseline.
What moves the band
- Specify the age group you mean; 'children' spans a class that would need very different lessons.
- Avoid moralising about bad parents; argue from what schools can and cannot deliver.
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