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Mum urges children to school for sake of future by Marcus Priaulx
Lucy Jerome drums the importance of education into her children because she knows it will give them a happier life in a technological age. “The world’s c h a n g i n g rapidly,” she said. “You have to know how to use a computer these days.” She sees a future full of texting, twittering, emailing and Facebooking; talking will be deemed an old form of communication, most people’s shopping will be done online and many of the jobs people do haven’t been invented yet.
Mum Lucy Jerome waves hooray to her children (back) Myrtelle, 9, and (front) Jakira, 6, Isaac, 5, and Jonah, 4 as they make their way to Cherbourg State School. She holds Barbara 3 and is hoping to enrol her into Gundoo Day Care so she can study a TAFE numeracy and literacy course to improve her own education. Image supplied
But Lucy, like many parents, has trouble helping her children with their homework. The Cherbourg State School’s Parent of the Month for
February is looking to enrol into a Nurunderi TAFE course to improve her skills and ensures her children Myrtelle, 9, Jakira, 6, Isaac, 5 and Jonah, 4,
are well rested before they get up, get dressed into their school uniform and are ready for the school bus with lunch in tow every day, on time. What I’m really determined to do is for at least one of my children; all of my children to go onto Year 12,” she said. “I am determined for that to happen. “I sit with them every day and tell them they need to go to school and listen, don’t be stubborn and backchat. “They need to go through school and go on with their education b e c a u s e everything will be different when they’re older. “I want them to have a great life.”