Oh, well, that's help enormously...

[DanaC]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-14849832


How to resolve the growing problem of disaffected youth truanting from school?

Dock their family's benefits...

Adding financial pressures to families most likely already in a state of crisis is not going to help children access education.

Not to mention the gross assumption that truants are children from families on benefits. What about the troubled middle class teen who keeps skipping school?

*growls*

Fucking Tories. I hate them. I'm sorry, I can't help it. I can deal with them on an inter personal level but their politics are just abhorrent to me. I keep hearing US posters throw accusations of 'class warfare' at anybody who questions the rights and priveleges of the 'job creators' (the 'makers' as opposed to the 'takers'...ffs). We don't bother to hide our class warfare behind phony victimhood or free trade, we do it right out in the open.

They're well on the road to breaking up the NHS in all but name. The paper being debated, which has already passed through the Commons an dis now on its way to the Lords, brings in 1000 changes to the NHS, some o fthem fundamentally altering the relationship between patient and doctor, between medics and commissioning, between funding and the private sector, and between care needs and care delivery.

Back in the 80s, as the Tories looked like they were heading for another landslide, Neil Kinnock sounded a grim warning. It works just as well for the new Tory-LibDem coalition (clusterfuck)