A cafe staffed almost exclusively with deaf people has opened as the first of its kind in the country.You can just imagine it, can't you?
As well as a café, it is hoped the venue will become a hub for home-schooled children and a welcoming place for refugees to learn English.Errr, you're not really selling it to me.
The not-for-profit venue is still very much in its early phase without an oven, deep fat fryer, fridge, freezer, dining tables or till and so a fundraising campaign for £7,500 has been launched.I...
Wait, what?
I wonder on what kind of ears these entreaties will fall?
ReplyDeleteWhile every place in the UK is a "place for refugees to learn English" and good that people with disabilities have a job, it is the 'Home Schooled children' that ought to interest us all more.
ReplyDeleteThe decision by the education authorities to allow families to 'home school' their kids means, according to someone I know who sees the results of this, a load of truculent and uneducated young teens get dumped on colleges because they didn't really learn anything at home. I know this seems to conflict with the teens who end up at college not knowing anything from attending the present mainstream school system, but 'home schooled' can fill the tutors with dread.
"The decision by the education authorities to allow families to 'home school' their kids means, according to someone I know who sees the results of this, a load of truculent and uneducated young teens get dumped on colleges because they didn't really learn anything at home. "
ReplyDeleteI'd be intrigued to know how he tells them apart from the rest of the truculent and uneducated throng!