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local Wednesday 7 december 2022
School as a triangular relationship: “We work together with parents

and students to reach the best for our children”

ORANJESTAD – During the dia, videogames and all
event ‘Topami na Mita’, sort of electronic games
which in Papiamento are educating the children,
means, Meet me in the and they are inundated
Middle, the head of Abra- with positive and negative
ham de Veer School, Mrs. information. However the
Bueno-Guzman-Hooft was information often is nega-
present, and she explained tive, even fake news, and
the important role of school this can cause sometimes
in the life of a child, the that the children and teen-
negative effects of media agers fall into anxiety.
and electronic devices “They cannot live with-
on children, and the im- out their smartphones. The
portance of cooperation smartphone makes sure
between parents and the that they have a friend,
school. someone close to them
because they feel alone.
Mrs. Bueno-Guzman-Hooft But even though the smart-
explained that as a school phone is something good
they are there to work and when you know how to use
help the children and teen- it, when you don’t know
agers together with their how to use it, it can be-
parents. The parents are come something hazard-
the first line, and if they par- ous”, she said.
ents keep the school aware
of any developments, to- She indicated that if a
gether they can continue teenager still doesn’t know
working with the youth to how to properly use their
improve any situation that smartphone, the parents
may arise. need to be aware; it’s not
enough to just buy expen-
She commented however sive items to fill the void that
that times have changed the parent wants to fill from
greatly, and in her 28 years not being present in their
of experience working in Ed- children’s lives, to fill it with
ucation, she has seen ma- a smartphone which could
jor changes. The change, turn dangerous.
as she indicated, was that
many years ago there was “This is why, the school in
better social control. When a triangular relationship
the child went home, she works together with parents
could have her mother still and students to reach the
at home, or grandmother best for our kids. So parents,
or even great-grandmoth- is completely different. them even have two jobs that parents, not because come to your child’s school
er, or a neighbor, who had or even more, in order to they don’t want to, but be- when you are in a difficult
some control over the child. These days, both parents be able to afford all house- cause they are not able to, situation. Don’t stay silent
But nowadays, everything need to work; some of hold expenses. This means don’t have enough time to because the school is al-
spend with their children ways there to help when
and no longer have that possible”, she said.q
type of control.

“This is the part where we ARUBA
need to work together
with parents, so that par-
ents can be more aware CLEAN
and be more responsible
with their children. We un-
derstand that they need
to work, but the problem
is that right now the par-
ents want to educate their
children, but they are not
educating them the way it
needs to be, and then you
have the media is educat-
ing their children”, Bueno-
Guzman-Hooft comment- IS MORE
ed. DUSHI

She emphasized that me-