Darwin and Northern Territory Schools Offer Parents a Student Monitoring System
Thursday March 12, 2009
A new website being installed in Darwin and other Northern Territory schools allow parents to check on their children's homework marks and class attendance.
Information about students across 33,000 schools in Darwin and the Northern Territory will allow parents to follow their child's progress more effectively giving them access to attendance and homework records as well as national and Northern Territory test scores.
Chief Minister and Education Minister Paul Henderson said it gives hard-working family's better opportunity to keep up with their children's progress at school.
"The days of many mums being able to spend a fair bit of time in and around the school are gone," he told the Northern Territory News.
He also said it enabled parents to track how diligent their children are.
"If you've got any hints that your kid is not doing the right thing and wagging school, you'll be able to see there and then," he said in the report.
"It will be in a database that the Education Department will be able to pull out on a regular basis. It should greatly improve the gathering and reporting of statistics."
Nightcliff Primary School principal Liz Veel in Darwin told Northern Territory News about her school that started trialling the website mid-last year.
"The feedback has been very very positive," she said. "Parents want to know exactly how their children are, if they are attending every day."
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