Carlotta has posted the text of an email received from someone in the dfes. It’s worth reading, it’s worth writing to dfes to get put on the consultation list, it’s worth starting to consider what you would say and where you would fight.
Gill blogged recently about how parents must do better according to the government. Personally I feel that it’s the government that could do better by doing less, though I’m not quite sure how to persuade them of that 🙁
That is what we need to turn our minds to – how to persuade the state to leave us alone, to not interfere in an area that has little to do with them. Parents are responsible for children, and it is only if parents are failing in that duty that the state has any remit to intervene. We do not need help that interferes in the bonds between children and their parents – I am not alone in thinking that it is due to the increased hours that children spend running in packs in daycare and at school that many teenagers no longer respond to any authority but the strongest member of their own pack.
Kath recently recommended a book, Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
, which sounds like it touches on this kind of area. Maybe we need to start a fund, or a lobby group that could put forward our point of view – I tend to the view that much of what is going on is because of various interest groups that shout loudly and get themselves heard, certainly Reading recovery seems to fall in that category despite plentiful evidence as to how pointless it really is.
Anyway, I’m rambling again. I hope you find this useful.
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