Even though it is peanuts why are we throwing this money away?

During the majority of lockdown schools taught online. There are always children who need to catch up but this tends to be to do with crap parents.

Our children went from strength to strength during the lockdown; having a parent 1-1 to reinforce the lessons. All the kids that normally do okay/well in my children's classes continued to do so; the very few who's parents don't value education didn't. May as well burn the money; they will still be behind at 16.

Why do people think money and Gov are there to sort everything!?

Wyot wrote:
Even though it is peanuts why are we throwing this money away?

During the majority of lockdown schools taught online. There are always children who need to catch up but this tends to be to do with crap parents.

Our children went from strength to strength during the lockdown; having a parent 1-1 to reinforce the lessons. All the kids that normally do okay/well in my children's classes continued to do so; the very few who's parents don't value education didn't. May as well burn the money; they will still be behind at 16.

Why do people think money and Gov are there to sort everything!?

Because you have handed over responsibility to the government to educate them and that is what you expect them to do?

It isn't always about crap parents. It is far easier to follow online schooling when you have enough space for each of the children, when the children are in a stable place with furloughed/working from home parents, and not shunted around being cared for while their parents go out to work, and if they each have their own laptop, or any online access at all, and if you have the money to buy the additional resources needed.
Most parents do the best they can for their children, with whatever they have got.

Many parents aren't 'crap' and 'don't value education' - they just have to work hard to survive.

Often 1-1 supervision isn't possible because both parents work - similar to single parent families.

In return for taxes etc., the expectation for most parents is that the state will do most of the educating.

Good that you've been in a position to ensure your children's education hasn't been interrupted.

Okay I was being a tad provocative & sweeping about the parents I admit...

My point is that an assumption is being made that throwing money at more of the same (formal education) will help them close a gap. It won't in the families where formal education doesn't matter to the parents.

My point is that the quantity of education recieved is not the problem in such homes.

For families who struggled with the practicalities of home schooling yes perhaps it may help a bit; but their children will catch up given time, love and support anyway.

I don't know how all parents are supposed to afford laptops/internet packages. When I was at school there were parents who couldn't even afford school dinners or school uniform.

Jo wrote:
I don't know how all parents are supposed to afford laptops/internet packages. When I was at school there were parents who couldn't even afford school dinners or school uniform.

The schools provided the laptops for those families Jo during the lockdown.

I'm quite happy to be paying for that!

Yes - Wyot lives in his own bubble


cpag.org.uk/child-poverty/child-poverty-facts-and-figures#:

Gael Vella wrote:
Yes - Wyot lives in his own bubble


cpag.org.uk/child-poverty/child-poverty-facts-and-figures#:

Presumably because I have said in this thread sonewhere that I believe child poverty doesn't exist....? (*scratches head*)

No - you just totally ignored the obvious reasons why this funding is urgently needed...

Gael Vella wrote:
No - you just totally ignored the obvious reasons why this funding is urgently needed...

And what would these "obvious reasons" be Barney?

To make it look like you can undo the harm of the last year to the poorest kids?

Not even the Gov believes that you actually can or it would have released more than a token gesture amount.

To close the gap between kids in supportive nurturing families and those, er, not?

To eradicate child poverty?

(*scratches head*)

Treat me like an idiot Barney; as it is not obvious to me.

And in the meantime dismount from your moral high horse as you have supported lockdown policies that have and will result in the impoverishment and deaths of millions of babies & kids around the world because you were persuaded to "care" more about a few thousand near the end of their lives in your blessed, paradisical corner of the world.

Wyot wrote:
Jo wrote:
I don't know how all parents are supposed to afford laptops/internet packages. When I was at school there were parents who couldn't even afford school dinners or school uniform.

The schools provided the laptops for those families Jo during the lockdown.

I'm quite happy to be paying for that!

No. They didn't. Many families are still waiting!

Gael Vella wrote:
No - you just totally ignored the obvious reasons why this funding is urgently needed...

Go fuck yourself.

My children never went without their mother My ex partner taught them work ethics like my parents did. I was working from 10 years old. No regrets either !

Honey wrote:
[quote]Wyot wrote:
[quote]Jo wrote:


No. They didn't. Many families are still waiting!

Oh dear....it was all sorted in Surrey from day one...

Honey wrote:
Wyot wrote:
Jo wrote:
I don't know how all parents are supposed to afford laptops/internet packages. When I was at school there were parents who couldn't even afford school dinners or school uniform.

The schools provided the laptops for those families Jo during the lockdown.

I'm quite happy to be paying for that!

No. They didn't. Many families are still waiting!

I have also heard that some of the laptops kids got for their schoolwork were slow, some even died out after a few days, out of date to run certain software and programmes.

Lockdowns caused nothing but debts, heartache, suicide's, and depression. We couldn't travel much last year but allowed certain flights to happen.

Wyot wrote:
[quote]Honey wrote:
[quote]Wyot wrote:
Jo wrote:


No. They didn't. Many families are still waiting!

Oh dear....it was all sorted in Surrey from day one...


Exactly.