The Occupation of Parents Defines Kid’s Results at School

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Children who have at least one parent working in IT, business or engineering are the best performing students in Australia.

An OECD report into the connection between student performance and their parents’ occupations has also found the kids of subsistence farmers, salespeople and machine operators are the lowest performing students in the nation’s schools.

Not only were the kids of information and communications technology (ICT) workers top of the country in maths and science, they were also the best in terms of reading.

By Australian Information Industry Association, ICT workers’ skills include the analytical, the innovative, the creative thinking, the can-do, curiosity and solving business problems.

These means that the children of ICT workers are enjoying the benefits of being exposed to all of those skills and being inspired in their family environment to take risks.

But, that’s not the end of the story. The gap between Australia and the top maths performers is so big that the children of a Shanghai (China) subsistence farmer will perform as well as the offspring of an Australian health or teaching professional.