Tomorrow, the children born on the day "a new dawn has broken, yes it has',will discover the rest of their life chances, wholly moulded under New Labour.
Already many of them have not learned to read or write in their own language, and certainly they have not learned any foreign language; already they are functionally innumerate; they will have no musical skills of worth - for to play an instrument to any serious level requires the same early start as to learn mathematics or another language, it is a function of the development of the brain and nervous system, as has been known for much more than a decade.
Many will be fat and without sports' fields to exercise, nor competitions to win. Swimming lessons will have been denied in the interests of avoiding offence to cultural groups that choose to see sin in diversity of gender.
And a culture of contempt for interest, curiosity, learning and achievement will have been fostered by a unionised workforce determined to assert its priority over the interests of the children and families they ought to serve.
If you have provided all that is, by diktat, lacking in your children's primary schooling, you will find your efforts derided and disgraced as your beloved daughters and sons are thrust into precisely the company and cultural milieu from which you have sought to protect them.
Unless you have the money to buy them out. For the rest, if you're white, it's not all right, if you're brown there's no stick around, and if you're black, along with all the others, get back.
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Home schooling. Why send your children to be near those suffering from the mental equivalent of nits and ringworm?
You once mentioned that children often have to endure a reduction in their living standards to go to school. You bet. Why would we want our kids at school with kids with knives? With teachers that put them down? Home education is where it will go. Until Brown makes it illegal...
All this constant assessment stuff is about forcing out home schooling really, L. Public examinations in examination centres for which any one could pay the fee and register, then turn up and take the examination, have all but disappeared in the last 11 years - even longer - for the education system and the schools have long been in the hands of the unionised provider mentality.
As well, it is very difficult to break out of year-cohorting and take an examination early so that the two worthless years that occur from 11 to 13, built in to slow down the prepared and permit recuperative work on the damaged, can be obviated.
Those two years could be used so that GCSEs are taken at 14 and A-levels at 16 then university entrance could be on the basis of known results at 17/18. University entrance is available at 17 in most universities but few realise. Many, many well-disposed, and educated students could take advantage from recovering the lost years that destroy so much primary school promise.
School as open prison, where what is learned is wholly undesirable, is becoming reality in England.
A whole way of life - happiness, interesting things to do, environment, advance into adulthood - all are positively damaged by school, in my experience as a parent in England. Sackerson knows a great deal about all this now, but it was iffy when our children were negotiating through the system.
Home schooling is thriving. The last I heard, it was up to 50,000, 3 times what it used to be.
Given average spend per pupil of c. £6,000 per year, a class of 5 or 6 pays a teacher's salary. Roll on the voucher system.
Read the last Speccie for a report of Norman Tebbit's ideas. I grew up to regard him & Mrs T as baby-eaters, now I'd vote for Norm as PM.
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