“Education, Education, Education”
Labour is into driving up standards again when we compare well with other countries. However, what do we achieve for the non-academic – surely the catchphrase should be “No child left behind.” I’m thinking about the most problematic students; perhaps we need specially trained teaching assistants to intervene or help the disinterested child catch up or with those children at the lower end of the empathy scale. I posted last week about Rudakubana, who murdered three little girls – Elsie Dot Stancombe, Alice Dasilva Aguiar, and Bebe King. Every school has the potential to breed such individuals or intervene or at least get an intervention before someone gets hurt.
I am concerned about the misogynistic element of what Rudakubana did. Misogyny, as well as the other protected characteristics, needs to be explored in school rather than dumping the problems on workplaces . Ofsted should have targets for how successfully an antisocial child is turned around. How many people in the bottom sets can get decent qualifications, not necessarily academic ones? If our Labour government doesn’t take the least well off, and least educated with them more reform MPs (the anger jockeys) will be the result.
Bullies don’t disappear after school; they’ll be in the workplace perfecting their craft. In school, of course, it is very important to support targets of bullying – to limit the damage done. However, to solve the problem of bullying in school and the workplace, no bully should leave school unreconstructed.
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