Incorporating, embedding a child welfare push

Some quarters might perceive the shift as an additional burden, an ambitious mission that cannot be accomplished in light of the education sector’s history of academic underachievement. Critics are saying that the child welfare agenda would assume centre stage to the detriment of the very vital core of boosting academic achievement levels.

In their view, coupling the child welfare component with academics would overstretch and spread meagre resources far and wide, thin, with the risk of achieving little impact. Why not strengthen and sharpen the classroom instructional machinery before delving into the new aspect of placing emphasis on best child-rearing practices, they ask rhetorically? To start with, the well-being of students has always been an integral part of the teaching profession.