THOMIST
Thomist is of the school of thought that school, Church, and families should play separate but related roles when it comes to children’s education. However, that is not the case in the current society since I believe that teachers are given too much responsibility to teach things that are supposed to be handled by the Church or even the family. Most parents are working full-time jobs that take up a significant portion of their time to bod and interact with their children while imparting their values (Cornwall, 2016).
During the 1950s and 1960s, in most family settings, it was the husband or the father that was the sole family provider. That meant that only a single parent worked while the other parent, mostly the mother, remained at home to take care of the house and play a central role in raising the children (Galvin, Braithwaite & Bylund, 2015). However, over the past few decades, there has been a systematic, progressive campaign to get more women into the workforce that has mostly been successful (Galvin, Braithwaite & Bylund, 2015). It has thus left most children in the hands of paid nannies as parents have little time to spend with them. Teachers have therefore been forced to take up some of the responsibilities of the parents. Some children are shipped off to boarding school to be under the fulltime care of teachers. This has placed an extra burden on teachers to step in and fill the void left by absentee parents. When it comes to the Church, over the decades, religious congregations have been shrinking in number (Twenge, Sherman, Exline & Grubbs, 2016). This means that churches are imparting religious education on a smaller proportion of the population than before. Church-sponsored educational institutions and their teachers are forced to step in and fill the void left by this phenomenon. Don't use plagiarised sources.Get your custom essay just from $11/page
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