Kids
with parents who value education and are prepared to pay for it or
home educate the kids themselves are going to do better no matter what
schools do. That said, I think it is a travesty of our social and
economic fabric that only getting academic qualifications is regarded
as being successful. All that happens in reality is the Bell curve of
intelligence gets raised up, it bulges a lot more in the middle, sure, a
good thing if you want better technology and a cure for cancer sooner
than later, but the very intelligent stay brighter than the less no
matter how much a parent spends on the child's education. I've said to
my family loads of times since I started working with Learning Disabled
people that the two leading edges of our civilisation are how well we
care for people who have problems of any sort and the science and
technology that we get into . The main problem in my view is society
has to value and pay for those millions of people who do great jobs in
social care but get little reward for it. I don't think the answer lies
in higher pay I think it lies in higher privilege in terms of reductions
in power bills and housing costs so the pay they get is worth more.
Raising taxes specifically for this purpose is the only way.
I have been a house-husband for the last 20 years organising the family and home-educating and flexischooling the children. I am married to Fiona(24 years) and have 2 children Miles and Clifford. I will eventually be a home tutor and/or a maths teacher.
My hobbies are lots of reading , maths, geology, harmonica(jazz and blues), countertenor singing, hiking and Bahai Faith studies. I am a member of the Bahai Faith as are all of my family.
No comments:
Post a Comment