Re: Can we continue to call ourselves a 'civilised' country?

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 12:45:33 +0100, "Norman Wells" <norman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Mandatory testing for an adequate level of literacy and numeracy at
age 11, 12 or so. Children who fail are assessed by social services
to ascertain the reason, and if the parent is at fault measures to
correct the situation are taken, with the child being placed into care
at the extreme end.

Our present education system does not even guarantee that school
leavers are able to read and write, so IMO such a system would be an
improvement.

An even better improvement surely would be to do the testing and immediately
take into care any child that failed. That would concentrate the minds of
the parents who think they can educate.

*Any* parent can educate a child up to the stage of early high school.
There may be perfectly valid reasons why a minority of children fail
despite the best efforts of the parents or school.

--
Cynic


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