The point of school is supposed to be education, this is not prioritizing education. Schools should not be drone factories turning children into obedient workers for the corporations.
Comment on Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I decided, against my better judgement, to actually read past the headline 😉.
This follows on from some research that indicates kids are three times more likely to fall into unemployment after they leave school based on some indicators at an early age. So the idea is that these children get extra help to make sure they don’t end up in a lifetime of joblessness. Wouldn’t this be similar to spotting kids that are struggling with English or Maths at an early age to help them before it is too late?
Somehow according to Lemmy this is a bad thing 🤷
DillDough@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Without knowing what they plan to do with children that are identified it is hard to say much more. But the point of school, surely, should be to prepare children for their future such that they can function in a society.
Imagine what you would be doing if you’re later in life classed as being Not in Employment, Education, or Training for anything (what is known as NEET). That doesn’t sound like a very fulfilling life. Giving people extra help such that they can go onto further education, or training for a skill (even if you take umbridge to the word employment) is surely a good thing.
What would you have happen to these children? If you could identify clear markers at an early age?
DillDough@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
The solution is more resources per child with constant evaluation and alteration of the system and what it offers, it really is that simple. You do not need to label children as unemployable and put them on some list, that will never end well even if the original intentions were purely benevolent.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Let’s not get fixated on the employment part. There’s also not being in further education. And also not being in training (like an apprenticeship for example).
If you could identify a child that would later on in life struggle to either be in further education or training you’d help them, right?
The solution is more resources per child with constant evaluation and alteration of the system and what it offers, it really is that simple.
That sounds like what this is aimed at doing. Did you read somewhere that all they are doing is putting kids on a naughty list?
smeg@feddit.uk 3 days ago
The Department for Education would also be asked to refresh its pupil premium guidance to emphasise that the extra money schools in England receive for supporting the most disadvantaged children could be used for tutoring and mentoring schemes for those at risk of becoming Neet.
Those absolute monsters!
I think everyone’s just so conditioned to reading bad news headlines that they assumed this was something sinister, when it actually seems like quite positive news (in theory at least)
Quokka@quokk.au 3 days ago
I don’t think people should be evaluating children based on their future potential for employment.
If unemployment is an issue, focus on the workplaces don’t try to train children into being workers.