School summer break under threat - a bit of heated reaction from me ;-)
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2282142,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
That really bothers me. We are a low income family and yet I feel that our children get so much out of the holiday time spent all together - we explore, we go out, we talk, we laugh, and they learn SO much that they will never learn at school.
So what if they don't practise their reading and writing for a few weeks? Reading is going on all the time anyway, what with signs and food packets and what have you, and often writing crops up in the playing they are doing.
This feels to me like an example of the government assuming that all 'poor' families must be thick and unable to educate their children in any way at all. And that school is the only way these low income children are going to learn. It makes me want to spit!
That really bothers me. We are a low income family and yet I feel that our children get so much out of the holiday time spent all together - we explore, we go out, we talk, we laugh, and they learn SO much that they will never learn at school.
So what if they don't practise their reading and writing for a few weeks? Reading is going on all the time anyway, what with signs and food packets and what have you, and often writing crops up in the playing they are doing.
This feels to me like an example of the government assuming that all 'poor' families must be thick and unable to educate their children in any way at all. And that school is the only way these low income children are going to learn. It makes me want to spit!