Scotland is the middle of introducing a brand new Curriculum for children aged 3 to 18 called the Curriculum for Excellence which contains far more than traditional school subjects including working to develop responsbile citizens.campbell wrote: I guess the best we can do is find ways to lobby the Government to put as much into parenting principles / skills
Only that way will we develop back towards the principles Robin alluded to.
Oh, and when the Government claims massive figures for how much it has poured into "Education", it needs to ask...
a) how the money has then been spent
b) how much of it should go on non-school-oriented education like the parenting skills stuff.
Good education begins at home when the wee tots are barely days old and actually never stops until Mum and Dad pop their clogs. That's the deal if you are considering - or risking! - having children, take it or leave it.
What are the values underpinning the new curriculum?
Wisdom, justice, compassion and integrity are the words inscribed on the mace of the Scottish Parliament. These words have helped to define values for Scottish society.
The Curriculum Review Group says: 'One of the prime purposes of education is to make our young people aware of the values on which Scottish society is based and so help them to establish their own stances on matters of social justice and personal and collective responsibility. Young people therefore need to learn about and develop these values. The curriculum is an important means through which this personal development should be encouraged.'
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Curriculum for Excellence aims to:
focus classroom practice upon the child and around the four capacities of education:Â
1Â successful learnersÂ
2Â confident individualsÂ
3 responsible citizensÂ
4 effective contributors
An intersting statistic is that 85% of the language we use as adults is in place by the time we are five years old and 50% is in place by the time we are three years old. Considering how much children learn pre-school then you would think early years workers, who now have to be even more qualified, would get a decent wage.
Did anyone catch the McIntyre programme on streetcrime a couple of days ago? The kids that are causing the problems have no incentive whatsover to earn a wage or no great deterrent to stop them following a life of crime.
Skye once got hit by a stone somebody threw over our garden fence from the main road passing by. It sometimes happened late at night with drunk or rowdy kids try to break back windows in the houses. She got quite a shock but was lucky not to have been badly injured. Earlier that day she had been playing with halloween makeup on her dolls so I suggested we make a really scary photo of her being badly hurt and put it up on the fence. I did her head up with a horrible looking injury and loads of fake blood and then put up the photo on the fence saying that the actions of some idiot had caused this to my daughter and that she needed hospital treatment. The photo stayed up for months and that was a few years ago and never once has anybody throwing a stone over the fence since then. Chasing them at the time would only have made matters worse.
Phoned the school to let them know but not much el;se I could do as I couldn't for definte say it was schoolkids, though 99% sure it was when I glanced in my mirror after being hit.
