However important we may regard school life to be, there is always the fact that children

However important we may regard school life to be, there is always the fact that children spend more time at home than in the classroom. Therefore, the teacher should realize that parents have a great influence on their children. Parents can bee strong allies (助手) of the school or they can get in the way of the school education.
Experts have realized the need to keep parents informed of the newer methods used in schools. Many headmasters have conducted workshops explaining such matters as the reading readiness, program writing and mathematics to parents.
Moreover, the classroom teacher, with the permission of the supervisors(管理者), can also play an important part in giving more knowledge to reporting pupils progress, teachers can help parents a lot in educating their children and parents can give much help to teachers.
Suppose that a father has been drilling Junior arithmetic lessons night after night. In a friendly talk between the teacher and the father, the teacher can help the parent to make Junior interested in it. He might be persuaded to let Junior join in discussing the family budget, buying the food, using a ruler or measuring cup at home, setting the clock, calculating the distance of a trip and engaging in scores of other activities that have a mathematical basis.
If the father follows the advice, it is reasonable to say that he will soon realize that his son is making satisfactory progress in mathematics, and at the same time, enjoying the work.
Too often, however, teachers’ talks with parents are devoted to small accounts of children’s misdemeanors(不良行为). They talk about the laziness and poor work habits of the children.
What is needed is a more creative way in which the teacher, as an adviser, plants ideas in parents’ minds to make sure that the child spends the many hours out of the classroom learning something useful.
In this way the school and the home join forces in educating children.
【小题1】The main idea of the passage is that     .A．home training is more important than school trainingB．parents should help their children to do their homework C．there’re many ways in which the mathematics program can be carried out at homeD．teachers can and should help parents to use better ways to teach their children【小题2】From this passage we can know that the writer     .A．is satisfied with the relationship between school and homeB．feels that parent-teacher talks can be made much more constructiveC．believes that schools can’t teach pupils wellD．calls on parents to teach their children mathematics at home【小题3】What way that the writer doesn’t talk about can improve the present situation?A．Classes for parents.B．New type of report card. C．Parent-teacher talk. D．Dinner or party.【小题4】The writer implies that     .A．interesting activities can improve one’s achievement B．too many children are lazy and have poor work habitsC．teachers should often make home visits to parentsD．headmasters do more than teachers in this area【小题5】We can infer from the passage that the writer does not favor     .A．father’s helping his son with his study B．written reports to the parents from the teachersC．talking about children’s shortingsD．having the parents help their children with their lessonsD