4 ottobre 2024
Dr. Daniele Nappo, Legal Representative as well as founder of the S. Freud Private School, draws attention to the school-family relationship, which is increasingly conflictual: families are developing a feeling of mistrust toward the educational institution and in the figure of the teacher.
A new start to the school year brings with it many challenges, including how to interface with students' parents and possibly get off on the right foot. Until the Delegated Decrees of 1974, the school-family relationship was based on a rigid and authoritarian approach, in which the role of the teacher was clear and well-defined and the active presence of the parent in the school, being unregulated, was almost nonexistent. The implementation of these measures circumscribes a new educational model in which parents and teachers are challenged to measure themselves against strategic goals. For a teacher to establish a cooperative and respectful relationship with students' families can sometimes prove complicated. We have been witnessing for years now a real distrust of parents towards the educational institution and in the figure of the teacher. By questioning his or her actions and often constantly challenging him or her, parents confuse the roles and tend to justify any behavior of their children a priori. Perhaps at the root is a lack of communication or an ineffective relationship, which in some cases turns into a real absence of parents from their children's school life and thus leads to a situation of “abandonment” of the children/children. There is no shortage, on the other hand, of parents who occupy too much space and tend to make communication excessively “friendly” (...) It is necessary to make the school-family bond positive and mutually beneficial. It is necessary to learn how to involve parents while always keeping the student/family at the center and to cooperate in order to create a positive and listening environment: this will benefit everyone and also have positive effects on school performance. The connection between school and family must be achieved through the sharing of a common educational project, openly participated in.
