2024 UK politics - now with Labour in charge
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OT, but I've taught hundreds of them, one-to-one, and can genuinely say that nearly every one has been likeable. I'm probably lucky that pupils generally actually want to learn what I try to help them learn, and I'm pretty good at working out what makes them tick and getting into their brains. If they want to give up, for whatever reason, then it soon becomes fairly obvious in their demeanour and practice routine, and after discussion it's generally a relief for all of us (pupil, me, and parents) when exhortations to practice are no longer required.
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Hence the "OT" disclaimer. Replying to Stevo in a different thread would be the height of bad manners.
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I hope @pinno appreciates my restraint in not starting a 'Dissolution of the monasteries' thread.
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Knock yourself out Brian.
It will get more traffic than anything about cycling, I reckon.
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You can take a good thing too far.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Very true, but one should never let facts get in the way of a little dig 😁
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There were a lot of gardening posts not in the gardening thread. You showed a lot of restraint there.
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Strange as it may seem, I quite like the way CS conversations go off on all sorts of tangents, but when I go out on a ride and come back to find the tangent is 60 posts long and heading out of Earth's atmosphere, then it's 🚨👮♂️ time.
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For irony's sake, I wonder if I ought to point out that this tangent about thread policing needs to watch its step.
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I agree, although we did for a time out of necessity so no criticism of those that have to I don't think a long nursery day is good in terms of their long term mental health. Young kids need to feel loved, babies like skin to skin contact, breast feeding etc Aren't attachments to soft toys unique to cultures where parents have their kids sleep separately, use nurseries etc from a young age - basically trying to replace the comforting a parent would provide.
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If it is so hard to exclude these days, why are exlusions higher than ever?
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As Rick said, it is a consequence of much worse behaviour overall. The threshold for permanent exclusions is far higher and if you look at permanent exclusions compared to the huge number of temporary, you can see it is pretty small.
A close friend is a Primary Head in a very deprived area. He had to exclude one kid last year, this was after 18 months of repeated exclusions and multiple incidents of verbal and physical abuse of other pupils and teachers. The kid is six years old! Even after that the LEA was still trying refuse to accept the exclusion.
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You do realise that if a child of 6 is acting out like that, there is very likely something at home causing it? E.g. domestic abuse, ongoing divorce, issues in wider family or contacts with the family of abuse. That sort of thing?
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The previous government introduced a policy of funding childcare for two year olds. The idea being to get people back to work and to remove some of the financial burden of having children which might lead to more children. That's an interesting idea, but as Rick bluntly and over-the-topply pointed out the impact of younger children in nursery is, on average, negative leading to worse outcomes in schools.
So what should the government do? That's a political question that I find interesting and not one that should be thrown out of a political thread.
Now if the discussion was about whether pampers are worth the premium over own brand supermarket nappies, I'd have more sympathy for your point of view.
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What proportion of parents don't have some form of support network in place for year 2, if some return to work is what they want?
I genuinely don't know. I moved away from family when I was 18 and never went back. Well not for 32 years
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Are you suggesting that lazy boomers are not doing enough? Wrong thread for that.
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Of course, I know exactly the situation behind it. My mate is a brilliant teacher and his is an Osted outstanding with a huge support network in place. Unfortunately, if all the social work and school support behind the scenes is still not enough to support the child and improve things, eventually the situation becomes untenable. At that point, for the welfare of the child, other kids and staff, there is no real option other than to move them into specialist support.
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Not a lot the grandparents can do if their children and grandchildren don't live close. (Though Rick will no doubt say they should sell their 5 bed house and move into a 2 up 2 down close to thier children - but what if they have more than one set of grandchildren and none of them live close to each other?)
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My grandparents did just that. Not saying others should nor that times have changed, but I do think it was great that mine did it. In contrast, I have no family support at all, but I know my parents couldn't afford or enjoy living in my neck of the woods
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Yes, sure, there are big political aspects of children. I might have been being slightly tongue-in-cheek in this particular case, so should have added a few indecipherable emojis to make it more/less clear.
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TBF I know multiple families who's grandparents have done just that. Mine live down the road but have made it explicitly clear they do not want to be burdened with regular childcare. "we've done that, we don't need to do it again".
And plenty of grand parents aren't around at all, for whatever reason.
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Don't mess with emojis. You are too old and it will only end in tears.
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Has there been enough time for nursery care for two year olds as a policy to work its way through to the school system?
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The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
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You see, that's just passive aggressive.
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