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January 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Extended class time will also prepare teenagers for the world of work
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Kerry Mcqueeney
Last updated at 10:32 AM on 5th January 2012
A longer school day could stop pupils from joining gangs, prepare them for the workplace and give them a ‘haven’ from chaotic homes, ministers have said.
Labour has proposed extending classroom time as part of a review of how schooling can be made more relevant to the 21st century.
The review is to be led by Labour MP Barry Sheerman, a former chair of the Commons education select committee, after business leaders said a third of young people emerged poorly prepared.
Protection: Pupils could avoid joining gangs if they spent more time in the classroom, ministers believe (file photo)
In a speech to the North of England Education Conference in Leeds, shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg will say too many schools are run like 19th century institutions set up to produce factory workers.
‘The workers down tools when they hear the bell ring, and are strictly separated into production lines, focused on building the constituent parts of knowledge – maths, science etc,’ he will say.
‘At the same time, students are rigidly separated. Taught in batches, not by ability or interest, but by their own date of manufacture.
‘While noble in its origins, this 19th-century form of industrial education feels distinctly ill at ease with the demands of a modern, globalised economy, which demands collaboration, innovation, entrepreneurship, and an appreciation that developing value comes not from more efficient forms of production, but more skilled ones.’
A recent survey of employers found they considered a third of the workforce left school at 16 ‘poorly or very poorly prepared for the work place’, he will point out.
Mr Sheerman’s review will take evidence on initiatives such as extended hours from teachers, parents, businesses and universities and examine overseas education systems.
Speech: Stephen Twigg will say too many schools are run like 19th century institutions
Pupils at schools which had already introduced longer days were ‘getting a better perspective of the expectations upon them’ at work, Mr Twigg will say.
‘A longer school day appears to be a smart way forward for a number of reasons.
‘For secondary pupils it would mean getting used to a work-like timetable. A long hours culture has its drawbacks, but how many employers expect their workers to leave the office at 3.30pm?
‘A longer day can be progressive in nature. Too many pupils who suffer from poor housing conditions struggle to find a quiet place to study or do their homework.
‘Providing a longer school day will give these students a haven away from what in some cases can be chaotic and troublesome home lives.
‘Third, it can take young people, quite literally, off the streets.
‘Numerous studies have shown that gang activity is often most prevalent in the hours immediately after schools close, and providing longer school-based activities may prevent some from getting into trouble.’
Mr Twigg will also call for money to be saved by teaching using electronic readers rather than buying physical text books for pupils and an for improvement in IT teaching which he will say is too often ‘little more than a glorified typing course’.
‘We need far more rigour in ICT teaching, with higher quality training, higher standards and continual assessment of what pupils are being taught.’
UK RATED ‘MEDIUM RISK’ IN CHILD PROTECTION INDEX
Britain’s record on protecting children from workplace exploitation worsened over the past year, research claims.
The UK was rated ‘medium risk’ in the annual child labour index compiled by Bath-based global analysts Maplecroft.
It rose 12 places to be ranked 142nd
this year, ahead of low-risk countries including Hong Kong (160th),
France (163rd), Germany and Ireland (jointly at 175th) and Australia
(185th).
Maplecroft said Britain fared worse in
the index than other Western nations because large numbers of children
were trafficked to and within the UK for labour and sexual exploitation.
The survey of 197 countries was topped
by Myanmar, North Korea, Somalia and Sudan in joint first place,
followed by the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe and Afghanistan.
A total of 76 nations were judged to
pose an ‘extreme risk’ to children’s welfare through the use of underage
workers, up more than 10% from 68 last year.
The analysts put this sharp increase
down to deteriorating security, resulting in greater numbers of children
fleeing their homes and becoming internally displaced or refugees, and
the global economic downturn.
Countries were ranked in the index
based on how widespread child labour is and how efficient governments
are at preventing the practice.
The tiny and wealthy European states of Luxembourg and San Marino came joint bottom.
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Why should I lose out on time with my nicely behaved, law abiding daughter because other people can’t control theirs ?
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Anon, Lancs, 5/1/2012 11:42=====Try being a teacher for a week, (not one by the way) do you honestly think a teacher’s working day/week is the same as that of a child? I bet you think that publicans and bar staff only work opening hours as well.
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Good idea and whilst the kids are in school, they could be taught about family, relationships and perhaps stop the rot of broken families!
– JonD, Hayes, 5/1/2012 11:52your proposal is the cause of half the trouble with kids nowadays. Family relationships should be taught at home, by the family. Schools are for teaching the 3 r’s (although I’m not so sure even that applies now)
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How is that going to help and how much are teachers now going to demand in extra pay? Introducing a stricter punishment to fit the crime would deter many a youth from a life of wrong doing! Making parents more responsible for what their kids get up to would help as well! Plus employing teachers who actually want to teach and make a difference to kids lives would work wonders instead of those that become teachers because “it’s just a job”!
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Disgraceful that lazy teachers let these kids out on the streets at only 3pm. They should be there until at least 5.30 and longer in those long summer evenings. So many kids can hardly read and write and too many others struggle with the basics so they would benefit from longer time in the classroom. Use the extra school time wisely.
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I HATE TO SOUND BORING AND OLD FASHIONED HERE BUT, THE REASON WE HAVE PROBLEMS LIKE THIS IS ,THEY FEAR NO ONE AND NOTHING, WE AS A COUNTRY CAN BE FIRM BUT FAIR, IF WE INTRODUCED A TOUGHER LEGAL SYSTEM IN THIS COUNTRY WE WOULD SEE A FALL IN THIS GANG CULTURE.
– Lee Tyler, Newcastle upon Tyne , UK, 5/1/2012 10:26………………………you are boring – by SHOUTING at us.
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Polly, uk, 5/1/2012 9:46===I see what passes for IT training/lessons in my local junior schools, Polly and more often than not, consists of sourcing images from Google, then copying and pasting them into MSWord. that’s when they manage to copy the actual image and not the hyperlink to the image. You are correct more emphasis needs to be placed on learning the basics, but children need to be entertained today, not educated so I have been told and a pen and paper lacks the necessary whistles and bells. I think the educational decline and it has declined, irrespective of what results show, can be charted from the introduction of PCs into classrooms, but it will take a tectonic shift in policies and thinking to turn things around now.
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Stupid idea… why do we constantly take away the responsibility of parenting from parents. What next; children are taken away from parents at birth and looked after by the state.
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No, the answer is to reinstate the importance of Christian values and morals and the institution of marriage in this moral-less country!!!
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Good idea and whilst the kids are in school, they could be taught about family, relationships and perhaps stop the rot of broken families!
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