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Finally, some common sense!
2 CommentsBBC News and the TES report that Alan Johnson, the education secretary, has stressed the importance of parental input in a child’s education. He pointed out the rather self-evident fact that for every hour children spend in compulsory education they spend 10 in the care of their parents. Whilst he was keen to distance himself from claims that he was dictating to parents what they should be doing with their children. Well, he’s certainly got my support now – anyone who doesn’t lay the state of our nation’s youth solely at the door of teachers is a breath of fresh air… ;)
Published on November 8, 2006 · Filed under: Uncategorized;
2 Responses to “Finally, some common sense!”
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Well, yes, but the government has diligently been disempowering parents for so long now that our children are being left to grow up rather than being raised. I think they have presumed for too long to tell parents what, how, when and where. As a result we have an increasingly disaffected, dispossessed teenage population for whom an ASBO is becoming a status symbol. Inverted snobbery or what?
When I first arrived in the UK and asked why kids were being dragged out of the nest at the tender age of 4 to go to school, someone bitterly said that it was to remove them from the differentiated influence of their parents and bring them into a standardised environment before too much “harm” had been done. Probably completely untrue, but grist to the mill of those who object to the nanny state approach.
Either way, it should be about the kids.
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