A proper education?
It seems to me that a large part, and perhaps the largest part, of the work of the Houses of Parliament are about the 20%-30% of children who we fail at school.
Their concerns are constantly being kicked around in Westminster, Holyrood, Cardiff Bay and the Stormont estate.
Whether it's to do with law and (dis)order, prison, homelessness, health problems or the crises of poverty. It all comes back to these children.
With grammar schools back in the news, I want to focus on the need to transfer some of the eggs out of the grammar schools' basket, and into the children-in-need basket.
For the children who don't get a proper education. The children who come out of school and you'd never know that they'd even been through our education system.
What do you think?
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8 年I think it should be mandatory to study the Law of Unintended Consequences at school, if nothing else (except perhaps kindness)... Not understanding the idea in life, that simple solutions and soundbite-policies often create far larger problems than they appear to temporarily solve until the next election, seems like an idea whose time has truly come. One can trace racism, sexism, and most toxic-isms back to a profound lack of insight into generalisations that are crass and not evidenced in actual practice. Only have to think of the utter mess the NHS is in because of short-termist austerity policies to see how expensive these mistakes really are for our young people.