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Good story from the Teachers May 05, 2008 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 4,402 |
Parents are 'dumping' children on schools as Labour pushes for longer working hours, say teachers
By LAURA CLARK - More by this author »
Last updated at 00:01am on 5th May 2008
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=563961&in_page_id=1770
Ministers were yesterday accused of promoting a back to-work culture where parents dump their children on schools and nurseries.
A head teachers' leader warned that plans for a massive expansion of childcare and a 50-hour week in schools encouraged parents to hand responsibility for bringing up their children to teachers.
Mick Brookes said: "Some parents do abdicate responsibility for their children. They dump their children early in the morning at school and are late picking them up at the end of the day."
Ministers were accused today of encouraging a 'back to work culture' where parents foist responsibility for bringing up their children onto nurseries and schools
He said a better balance needed to be struck between allowing parents choice over childcare and encouraging them to accept their parental responsibility.
"It's getting that balance right," he said. "I am not sure we have got it. If you choose to have children, of course there's a responsibility in the early years to look after them."
Mr Brookes, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said he backed schools that had already introduced dawnto-dusk schooling but added: "We also hold the view that the vast majority of parents want to see their children after school.
"We echo the shock expressed from some of the Eastern European parents that rather than promoting the importance of quality childcare at home, our country advocates a back-to-work culture that may well prove to be counter-productive."
He claimed that a minority of parents are unable to say no to their children and have 'lost control' of them, prompting them to leave the task to schools.
Speaking at the association's annual conference in Liverpool, he said: "The Government must stop displacing blame and loading all the ills of society onto the backs of schools.
"There are parents who lack the ability to say no. They need help and
support. They need to be shown how to turn that around at a young age."
He said there was too great a focus on providing care for children in their early years, handing parents with an 'excuse' to shirk their responsibilities.
Ministers have said they want all schools to be 'extended schools' by 2010, offering childcare and activities from 8am until 6pm to help parents fit work around schooling.
After protests, they now accept that not all schools have to offer ten hour days and are allowing some to direct parents to facilities in other schools or the local community instead.
The Government has also presided over a big increase in places in full and part-time day care.
More than 800,000 places are now available.
Children's Minister Beverley Hughes, who had earlier addressed the conference, described his remarks as 'unhelpful' and said 'there won't be many' children in school for ten hours a day, five days a week.
"What most parents need is the choice," she added. "The research tells us that certainly for toddlers and beyond, high quality early years provision makes a measurable and long-term positive difference to their ability to shine at school, to their social development."
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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii
Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.â€
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By LAURA CLARK - More by this author »
Last updated at 00:01am on 5th May 2008
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=563961&in_page_id=1770
Ministers were yesterday accused of promoting a back to-work culture where parents dump their children on schools and nurseries.
A head teachers' leader warned that plans for a massive expansion of childcare and a 50-hour week in schools encouraged parents to hand responsibility for bringing up their children to teachers.
Mick Brookes said: "Some parents do abdicate responsibility for their children. They dump their children early in the morning at school and are late picking them up at the end of the day."
Ministers were accused today of encouraging a 'back to work culture' where parents foist responsibility for bringing up their children onto nurseries and schools
He said a better balance needed to be struck between allowing parents choice over childcare and encouraging them to accept their parental responsibility.
"It's getting that balance right," he said. "I am not sure we have got it. If you choose to have children, of course there's a responsibility in the early years to look after them."
Mr Brookes, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said he backed schools that had already introduced dawnto-dusk schooling but added: "We also hold the view that the vast majority of parents want to see their children after school.
"We echo the shock expressed from some of the Eastern European parents that rather than promoting the importance of quality childcare at home, our country advocates a back-to-work culture that may well prove to be counter-productive."
He claimed that a minority of parents are unable to say no to their children and have 'lost control' of them, prompting them to leave the task to schools.
Speaking at the association's annual conference in Liverpool, he said: "The Government must stop displacing blame and loading all the ills of society onto the backs of schools.
"There are parents who lack the ability to say no. They need help and
support. They need to be shown how to turn that around at a young age."
He said there was too great a focus on providing care for children in their early years, handing parents with an 'excuse' to shirk their responsibilities.
Ministers have said they want all schools to be 'extended schools' by 2010, offering childcare and activities from 8am until 6pm to help parents fit work around schooling.
After protests, they now accept that not all schools have to offer ten hour days and are allowing some to direct parents to facilities in other schools or the local community instead.
The Government has also presided over a big increase in places in full and part-time day care.
More than 800,000 places are now available.
Children's Minister Beverley Hughes, who had earlier addressed the conference, described his remarks as 'unhelpful' and said 'there won't be many' children in school for ten hours a day, five days a week.
"What most parents need is the choice," she added. "The research tells us that certainly for toddlers and beyond, high quality early years provision makes a measurable and long-term positive difference to their ability to shine at school, to their social development."
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I just post the stories, for interest.. for everyone
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii
Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.â€
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein
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Re: Good story from the Teachers May 05, 2008 |
Un-fucking-believable. Have kids then expect the whole goddammed world to raise them. Parents are always screaming: "It takes a village"! Yet the first time one of those villagers corrects or scolds THEIR precious little Johnny, they are the FIRST ones to scream: "DON'T YOU TALK TO MY CHILD LIKE THAT"!. Stupid fucks, they don't know WHAT the hell they want.
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