23/08/2026
I often think about a small but telling pattern in our schools and colleges: a teacher calls to say a child is absent, and if that call doesn't come, parents feel neglected — as if they couldn't have known their own child wasn't at school.
It's a quiet reminder of how responsibility has shifted over time. Somewhere along the way, awareness of a child's day became the school's job, not the family's. And in that shift, something important gets lost — the everyday conversations at home about what was learned, what was hard, what needs more attention.
I don't say this to place blame. I say it because I believe education works best as a partnership. When parents stay closely involved — not through phone calls from teachers, but through genuine curiosity about their child's day — progress follows naturally.
Maybe that's where real change in our education system begins: not in the classroom alone, but at the dinner table.
