Mentors in Schools Mentors in Schools Network. The Aims of Mentors in Schools. Mentors in Schools is a pressure group that operates independently of any other organisation and is entirely unfunded. Given the pressures prevalent in society, MiS believe that the school of today must provide a dual role of educational development and professional pastoral support. The causes for this need are various.
Parenting skills vary from good, through inappropriate, to dreadful.
The good and bad characteristics of parenting are then passed on, but always with a built-in obsolesence. The needs of the child must here be paramount, and the function of a school is not determined by our definition of what we would like it to be, as much as by what children need it to be. From a school, MiS believe children require the educational framework that will give them the best hope of fulfilment in later life. A child should hope to leave school with an inquiring mind, the ability to process information, and make decisions from their own reasoning. All children should leave school with the social skills required to function as well as they can in a bewildering and often harsh society.