Families in an area of Watford will be offered free childcare under a new scheme that seeks to help disadvantaged children in Hertfordshire.Well, fantastic! Breed kids you can't care for properly, and the council will come along and help you raise them!
The Holywell estate is one of 13 wards in the county which will be targeted with nearly £400,000 of childcare grants to help low income families.
What could possibly go wrong?
Why, yes, I'm sure it will. I'm absolutely sure it will...
John Harris, director of children's services at the council said, said: "Ensuring that children who live in low income families have access to early education supported by home learning will improve their school readiness."
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"Ensuring that children who live in low income families have access to early education supported by home learning will improve their school readiness" ...
So would their mothers taking time out from Jeremy Vine or sending texts .. and, horror of horrors, actually spending some time reading to their children & playing "numbers" games with them ..
Assuming of course, that the mothers themselves ever progressed beyond "Primary II"
If you make cat food free there will be a lot more kittens next year, think it was P.J.O'Rourke who said that.
If parents aren't interested in 'home learning' then no amount of money can be spent to alter this. It is not financial deprivation but simply that the parents cannot be fucked.
And why not, when you get wheelbarrows full of cash given to you anyway?
Dear Captain Haddock, I think you mean Jeremy KYLE,my favourite programme.It's not entertainment for me,it's research on the hill-billies I deal with daily....
Jaded
@ Jaded ..
You could well be right, I've never watched it myself .. lol
All I know is that whenever I ring my old mum (she's in her 80's and suffers from dementia, so has a semblance of an excuse) its on her telly ..
That said, she did read to all her children & in my early childhood, some of those books were made of printed rag ..
Some of the darlings still aren't ready for school when they get to college.
I once asked some college students what was the last book they'd read and one of them said "Thomas the Tank Engine." I asked who wrote it, and after a moment's thought he replied "Thomas"
For a second I thought he was trying to be funny, when in fact he was deadly serious.
"...think it was P.J.O'Rourke who said that."
Wise man, whoever it was!
"If parents aren't interested in 'home learning' then no amount of money can be spent to alter this."
Agreed. Halting the runaway locomotive of the welfare state would do far more good.
"Dear Captain Haddock, I think you mean Jeremy KYLE,my favourite programme."
Actually, Jeremy Vine performs much the same function, albeit on the radio! :)
"For a second I thought he was trying to be funny, when in fact he was deadly serious."
*appalled*
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