It is reported that Gloucester County Council plans to fine schools that exclude pupils. What steps is the county council planning to ensure that parents prepare their children for school?
Earlier this week The Times reported a debate on divorce and marriage, under the headline, How to make a painful process kinder for all, part of a debate which largely ignores those most likely to suffer when relationships between adults … Continue reading
dunno by Peter Inson As a magistrate who sits in the Adult Criminal Courts and the Family Proceedings Courts, I found this book extremely interesting and useful. Looking at the home situation, minor criminality and truancy from the point of … Continue reading
Constant change engineered by politicians, no wonder that parents are bemused and no wonder that in The Times recently (August 15th 2018) Alice Thomson wrote that “Parents, pupils and teachers will want to scream at the carnage.” We must remember … Continue reading
In two items earlier this year The Times reported concerns that some children are too readily taken into care and reminded readers about the benefits of boarding school for vulnerable children. I have known three men who benefitted from time … Continue reading
Four recent correspondents in The Times (Sat June 16th) all found fault with the examination system inflicted on children in most schools in the UK. One of them, a teacher, speaks of an assault on youth and innocence. Why don’t … Continue reading
A parent in Devon has been fined £60 by his local education authority after taking his children out of school for five days to go on holiday. (Telegraph Aug 11th 2018) The letter he received from the county council, according … Continue reading
I wonder how might you have reacted, my friend, if you had arrived home from college and found something obstructing the back door. After a struggle you manage to force it part-way open and whatever it is that is resisting … Continue reading
When I asked classes of teenagers how many of them could ride a bike all of them raised a hand. When I asked how many of them had learned to ride a bike without grazing their knees not a single … Continue reading
Doubts about the holocaust have never troubled me, not since a Jewish classmate told me in 1958 that each one of the families in his community had lost someone in the Nazi campaign to exterminate them. As a child I … Continue reading
