65%
of parents believe that school should teach children discipline and a consistent work ethic, in other words bring them up.
Upbringing ranked second in the list of the most important tasks that parents place on schools. The task of ‘giving knowledge for a future profession’ ranked first by a minimal margin of a few tenths of a percent.
Parents often cited receiving a variety of knowledge about the world (61.4%) and children gaining social skills (59.1%) as being among the other important responsibilities of schools.
This information comes from research published by Tatyana Klyachko, Elena Avraamova, and Dmitry Loginov – experts from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration – in the HSE’s journal ‘Educational Studies.’
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74%
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24%
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