Jennifer Horgan: Parents feel lessons need to be learned for a better education system

 The rigidity of the Leaving Cert is perhaps the sorest point for parents across the country.

In certain aspects of our education system, the parent voice is uniform and clear.

Homework at primary school is described by one parent as "redundant” and by another as "unhelpful". A third states: “Asking parents to sign a reading log seems more to do with policing the parents than the pupils. Children develop at different rates and in different ways. There could be a better approach to homework.”