'Persistent' school absences have doubled in ten years
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- There are still - even two years after the end of the pandemic - shockingly high numbers of children who don't go to school regularly.
Around one in every five 5-16 year olds in England have been missing at least ten per cent of classes. The government today announced £15 million of funds for mentoring support programmes in areas where the problem is particularly bad.
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It's because the education system is failing them
I taught my child to read and write during the pandemic. As a result, she exceeded the national average in maths, English, science and RE. 2 years later in year 2 she’s just about meeting the standard, we saw a huge drop in academic ability and she now has anxiety. School is a system built to control the environment isn’t nurturing and isn’t centred around the needs of the child. Teachers are overworked and underpaid.
Schools need fully funded performing arts curriculums to make school fun again.
Don't think that's the answer as some children won't like performing arts like acting etc. The issue is consistency, relationships with teachers and teacher mental health. The mood of the teachers is directly impacting the pupils. The economic environment is having an impact. I don't think making school 'fun' again will solve the problem. Schools have just become purposeless and useless.
@@khadsykoo2528 no, that’s hijacking my point to make your point. Both things can be true.
Mental health is a huge concern. Kids are under so much pressure to acquire employability skills, but they don’t learn how to express themselves. They don’t have an artistic outlet to learn who they are as individuals. Schools are still designed around the rational of the Victorian work house in the U.K.
Some kids not liking performing arts is not a logical reason to dismiss arts programs and probably says more about your values. I couldn’t imagine a good reason to undervalue play in children’s lives.
I went to one of the worst skools in the UK - Whitefield School in Cricklewood north London - there is absolutely no point in going to a skool like this as you don't learn anything....
Sounds like the schools are not asking why kids are absent. If we are really saying we cant get kids to attend school then how is the govt going to sort our complex issues like the economy
They clearly don’t want to be there. Why force them? They will only be disruptive.
Because when they go on UC because they can’t get a job at 18, we have to pay for that
My child had extra needs that the school didnt/couldn't meet. Was that because they would have low GCSE results, or because they didn't care, or because they couldn't afford extra paid adults to help struggling pupils? My child stopped going and ended up being unregistered, not expelled
Every child has extra needs these days.
By pulling them out did you then meet the extra needs? Paying for a 1 to 1 tutor would have been quite expensive?
If you allow your child not to go then it’s your responsibility to get them an education and pass exams, I hope they did
Maybe it's because kids don't actually like school? Why do we assume all kids have to like school.
we really need to re think the after COVID. Now, people do not want to be stressed over their jobs and school anymore. They do not want the race to technology and maybe just a simple life with a fulfilling job, work from home etc. Lets think about self sufficiency and wellbeing.
Blame social media
No.
Blame parents.
Perhaps families can't afford petrol/bus fares, school uniform, school dinner money, etc...
Schools have been failing kids in the UK for decades, and they are not alone in that, many parents have equally been feckless in ensuring their kids attend school, and have little interest in their child's progress when they do manage to attend. It can be argued that far too many parents are working two or more jobs to make ends meet, and thus lack the energy to engage with their children on many levels let alone their education. Another might be that certain sections of society engage in nefarious activities, and children within them follow into the same activity thus creating a culture of criminality, or at least a grey economy where children follow into 'the trade' and are not needed in formal education.
There are many reasons why kids truant, and there are many reasons and causes why the School System itself is failing generations of children. It is long past time there was an honest transparent and open Inquiry into this matter.
How can we expect parents who don't value education to encourage their own children to attend? One way ticket to the underclass unfortunately.
Underclass by Charles Murray is based on dodgy non-research and is just an ideological treatise attack on some of the most vulnerable based on neoliberal ideology yet you don’t ask why people feel dissatisfied with British education
Agreed.
That's the whole plan of state education- designed to fail.
That's for your incredible insight. I had no idea this extremely complex issue was as simple as that! Who'd have thought?
Well, why did your parents didn't value your education is something we are all wondering since you post the result of your thinking publicly.
throwing more cash at it ..excuse for disavowing the narrow, boring, poor feducation on offer in secondary schools. money doesn't alter that
I hated school as an autistic person it didn’t work for me its neurotypical, middle class institution
I imagine it was more distressing than anything and I imagine you were able to educate yourself through other means. I have hopes for individualised tutoring in future using AI that can adapt to an individuals learning style.
@@TheAaronJP I had the adapt to survive and eventually got my GCSEs, a-levels and I am at university but I am an outlier. Bridgette needs to stop hailing the British education system ad something that is wonderful and tweaking the corners but needs an overhaul
@@jlewis2890 glad to hear that and I agree. You are probably the exception to the rule. For me it is important that people reach or at least get the right support to reach their full potential. Keep up the hard work on your journey 🙏
Theyve brought a new law in my daughters school that parents will pay £160 if a child misses school deliberately and the parents had no good reason for why that child missed school for a week or more so youll be charged £160 for everyday that kid missed a lesson. Calculate £160 for 1 week. How much?? Exactly
Good.
Children having random days off is not only bad for their learning but also hugely disruptive for everyone else’s
forcing children 5 year olds to be in school from 9 till 4 or whatever every single day of the week minus weekened, having to beg for a day off for family things is cruel maybe parents just want more freedom with their children
It’s worked for decades
The Finland model for schooling is one of the best in the world. They don't start till they are 7 because studies show there is no benefit to starting younger. They also have shorter school days.
@simonhool3073 yep but it doesn't work anymore.
@@etiennedelaunois1737 It does, for the vast majority of people it does. Societal standards and lowering in attitude have dropped leading to this.
It’s worked for generations, what’s changed is parents are not supportive schools, rather then are blaming teachers for their children’s bad behabiour
Also they are probably bored, many teachers treat like they are idiots, they are often far more advanced they we give them credit for, that doe not com under the syllabus for teaching as yet.
What is this conversation about ‘liking’ school. I didn’t like school, I don’t remember therefore getting to not go?!
I was taught NEVER start a sentence with "and , but , so , because" however listen to contestants on quiz shows who always start with them ....and that annoying 'and yes' half way through!
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If you have the chance to go to school, at least go to sense your own independance or to spend some time away from home/care. People have more influence over their lives than the government or the social system. Some children and teens can't go to school for multiple reasons like healthcare etc. but school can be a mild break from this and time to think or break for yourself.
I don't think it's why they've done it (though maybe I'm wrong) but the change to tax on private schools will help class unity. We should be fighting the parasite class not each other and everyone (excluding vampires like most of the Tory party) going to the same schools and having similar upbringings and educations will bring the country together, and that's a good thing.
This is another reason why private school kids will always be ahead. Private school parents don't mess around as they're paying for education. Perhaps we need to question working-class parenting.
You're pointing at poverty without realising it...
When old vincey went to school as a fresh young grandpa vince I had to walk 50 miles over landmine fields
And skip back in time to make dinner for the family 🙄 🥱
Common seriously media doesn't have better work. Sending to school is parents responsibility. Also 2-3 holiday is not really a big deal
I attended school and I know that's 20%. You have to remember many people with terrible jobs or those over 55 gave up working. Any bad habit breaks on reflection of choice. If you hate school as a child's willpower will defeat rhetoric.
I’m sure the VAT new bill will sort this out 😂
What's 7*7 ?
That’s not true
Life under Labour
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School is a waste of time teenagers are getting worst no discipline anymore kids teenagers doing what they want without consequences
‘School is a waste of time’
‘Teenagers are getting worse’
Have you considered is the LACK of school that’s making teenagers worse
@Bringon-dw8dx that's rubbish it's the disruption students that ruin it for everyone and the bullying is getting worse