In a world of information overload it is important for parents to be able to filter through the information they actually need to make an educational decision regarding the future of their child. The modern press is very willing to make an example of a mistake or an issue at a school but is very slow to praise signs of a successfully working system.

If a child is unable to enter a university because in the words of the press they are from a certain background this often ignores certain factors such as the sheer size of the pool of applicants. An individual may have achieved an extraordinary set of exam results which would normally qualify them but if there are too many students also receiving the same scores then it is a very difficult task to differentiate between them all.

In addition schools are increasingly providing parents with information on their children and how their education is progressing. These news updates are designed to help parents take a more active role in the education of their child. This involvement in the education of your child should be taken as a given, however this is increasingly less the case as parents now often look at schools to care for their children so that they are not culpable if anything goes wrong.

This lack of responsibility by parents has degraded the difficult relationship between school, child and teacher to an extent that schools are finding it harder to instil basic codes of discipline into their students thus making the process of actually educating them even more difficult.