A baby born in the midst of the Covid pandemic is now three years old. Just think of those crucial first years of a child’s life: meeting family, forming attachments, learning to walk and to talk, making your first friends. During successive lockdowns, many of these children missed these crucial experiences. It’s no wonder that headteachers have spoken of children arriving at school who are still wearing nappies, whose communication abilities are limited, or who are still unable to use a knife and fork....after all, if they aren't parenting, why should they be paid for it?
Prevention is better than cure, which is why we need to intervene early to prevent educational gaps from developing before they can grow.
Yes, this is another Labour push to claim that they, and they alone, have the answer to this.
Transformation is an overused word in public policy. But it is not hyperbole to use it here. It will take transformational change, along with a relentless focus on driving high and rising standards for every child, to achieve Labour’s ambition for half a million more children to meet the early learning goals by 2030.
While still paying the useless 'parents' their taxpayer cash. So they'll keep voting for you, eh?
I've seen children in their teens who couldn't use a knife and fork. Nothing to do with covid.
ReplyDeleteChild benefit, taking money from the hard-working (at the barrel of a gun, so 'they' can't afford to have children) to give to the lazy, incompetent and incapable so ... they can breed more lazy, incompetent and incapable ... voters who do what they're told.
ReplyDeleteCall me a reactionary old zealot but ... I'm in favour of shutting down 'all' benefits (and removing all warning labels). By definition, anything you receive, unearned, for "free", came by the government stealing it from someone who worked for it. It's a (deliberately divisive and destructive) wealth transfer from the productive to the parasitic. But ... that's never going to happen because all those strong, "independent" women rely on it to subsidise their ... "self reliance" (and conceal their bad choices).
[remember that old study done in New Zealand Which examined the net contributions/drain of everybody? It concluded that, with all the benefits, subsidies and preferences, 'no' woman, ever, was a net contributor to society financially. They are either a drain, voluntarily, welcome and reciprocal, on their husbands, or a forced parasitic, cost/responsibility free drain on 'all' men
e.g. Women receive/pay lower car insurance premiums because they are demonstrably less likely to have an accident. Yet women use >87% of primary health care provision, and >80% of all health provision, but ... pay less towards that provision via the same rate but significantly less hours and working lifetime. Fair? And that's just one of the,legion of, examples].
And ... why is it that I suspect (guarantee) that every one of those children was 'raised' by a "single parent" (meaning single narcissistic woman). It's almost as if most women aren't capable of the most basic parenting ... without a man to help. Nah, that can't be true, because women are infallible .. or so feminism (movies, TV, Adds, ... every woman anywhere) tells me.
‘… meeting family, forming attachments, learning to walk and to talk, making your first friends…’
ReplyDeleteAlong with the ‘it’s no wonder…’ in the following sentence, this is a perfect example of the way parental failure to teach basic skills -communication, toilet training and personal hygiene, the use of a knife and fork or, for that matter, generally civilised behaviour - is seamlessly blended with the consequences of external factors such as lockdown or low household income and the resulting conclusions accepted without question by the media (and teaching unions), largely, at present, because they make a useful stick with which to beat the government.
The result is not only continued - or even potentially increased - funding for some parents despite their manifest inadequacies but also effective exoneration from the obligations and responsibilities of parenthood, a lesson they are likely to carry forward into their children’s adolescence. It doesn’t take much to extrapolate further; some schools are already struggling with a feral critical mass and, if ‘lockdown deprivation’ has worsened the situation for the next cohort, educating them in a conventional setting is likely to become well-nigh impossible.
"I've seen children in their teens who couldn't use a knife and fork. Nothing to do with covid."
ReplyDeleteSpot on!
"Call me a reactionary old zealot but ... I'm in favour of shutting down 'all' benefits..."
I'd not call you that, in fact, I'd be inclined to agree. Can we regard them as a failed experiment? I think so.
"It doesn’t take much to extrapolate further; some schools are already struggling with a feral critical mass..."
And have the legal system waiting to pounce when they scent a big payday.