Parents who take their children out of school to go on holiday are damaging their life chances, the shadow education secretary warned yesterday.
Bridget Phillipson urged parents to 'reflect seriously' on the impact of unnecessary absences on their youngsters and the wider school community. In an interview yesterday, she said that while it can be 'tough', it is 'really important that children are in school' as 'every day matters'.
Do you think parents are going to swallow that now? When you did nothing during lockdown but slavisly support the government?
Ms Phillipson's comments came as a new poll found almost one in three parents believe the coronavirus pandemic has shown it is not essential for children to attend school every day.
One wonders exactly what's wrong with the other two thirds that they don't believe that.
Our political system is filled with empty vessels.
ReplyDeleteAnd as the saying goes - Empty vessels make the most noise.
I strongly believe that every constituency should be responsible for selecting their candidate to represent them in Parliament.
In addition, I believe that each constituency should be responsible for the remuneration of their candidate, including the amount of expenses they will be allowed to spend.
How would this be financed? One option would be a referendum each year, when the constituency council taxpayers will be asked to approve or otherwise the MP's payments. This would then be to council tax bills. Useful MPs would no doubt be rewarded with higher payments and the useless eaters among them would be less fortunate.
I wouln't be too sure that would work - look at the continuing re-election of Mayor Khan, for instance.
DeleteThe only fact that can be obtained from a poll is that the question was answered, not necessarily correct, or truthful, just answered.
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Good point!
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