All sounds rather Stalinist, doesn’t it?
The 10-year Children’s Plan will address the whole experience of modern childhood, including concerns about the decline in play outside of school hours and worries about children’s self-confidence.
Ten year plans to make th New Briton?
But the basic news is that free childcare is to b offered to two year olds. Rather confuses me, for haven’t we seen recent reports that starting childcare too young actually harms the child?
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1 Philip Thomas // Dec 8, 2007 at 12:15 pm
I wouldn’t say the confidence of the children I’ve met and taught was much of a concern, more their arrogance and incredible sense of entitlement.
2 Kay Tie // Dec 8, 2007 at 12:38 pm
“haven’t we seen recent reports”
Reports are only useful in confirming bias. Witness Polly: get a report that says “inequality kills” then it’s “woe, we must, our duty”. Get a report that says our kids are illiterate - after 10 years of pouring cash into the system like grain into a French goose, and it’s “the report is flawed, the protocol is invalid”.
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