Home-School conection

To educate is build the future, and for this reason the responsability of educate can not be avoided for schools and parents first, and for society, secondly. Althought it seems something obvious, many parents declare that if their children are poorly educated, the fault is of the schools. Alike many teachers complain that their students do not go educated to school, and they do not hesitate in assert that the teacher´s goal is teach contents but not educate.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights saids (art. 26,3.) "Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children". Althougt it has been a polemic topic, I think that this article declares a right but also a responsability for parents who can not delegate in the schools.

The European Union in European Report on the quality of school education (2001) http://ec.europa.eu/education/policies/educ/indic/rapinen.pdf
recognizes the effective contribution that parents can give to improve the schools.

In Spain, the Constitucion from 1978 declares the right and obligation of parents of educate to their children, and it establishes the posibility that teachers, students and parents participe in the goverment of schools. It gives a context where is posible to share the responsability of educate between home and schools. But the reality is diferent. Althought this posibility exist, many parents and teachers prefer work alone or give this responsability to others.
I think that it is not just a right and a obligation but the best way to cooperate in order to get the best education for our children. It is the best way by which teachers can meet the student's environment and, by extension, the same student. It is also the best way to give the same message to the students and avoid contradictions. It is a hard task that in my country must be fostered if we want improve our educational system and hope a better future.