Err....Dad?

Don't bother asking your Mum or Dad to help you with your homework - they're thick. This was the tenor of a report in the paper over the weekend which quoted a survey where parents were asked to take the sort of test their children were given at school, and their average score was something like 25%. But this seems to me to highlight the wrong-headed way in which our children are taught and tested. Because in real life, the important thing is not whether or not you know the answer to a question. but whether or not you know how and where to look for the answer and how to evaluate what you find, and this is where parents' experience comes to the fore.