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£200,000 a child
The average
cost of raising
a child until the age of 21 has risen to £201,809. That total
includes the cost of food, childcare,
pocket money, driving
lessons, a
fi rst car and school trips, equipment and uniform.
Children in smoke danger
It’s not just enough to keep your children away from people who are smoking. New research has added to fears that smokers can remain a danger to children even after they have put out their cigarettes and left the room. Scientists at the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory in the US have found that nicotine residue clings to clothing, furniture and even fl oors, where it can react with a common gas (nitrous
Pushover parents
A quarter of parents are reluctant to discipline their children because they are worried it might upset them. 30 per cent admit to being a “pushover”. Only one in three has ever sent a child to bed early. 55 per cent say they are “more a friend than a parent”.
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oxide) to form carcinogenic compounds known as TSNAs. The researchers stress that more research into “third-hand smoke” is needed, but warned that, in theory, infants could be at risk as they crawl around in rooms where people have smoked, and come into contact with dust on rugs and in carpets.
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Mr Dumpty rejected
“Would
be lazy but for absence”
School report,
quoted in T e Daily Telegraph
Teachers say they are being undermined by guidelines insisting that schools listen to the “student voice”. According to a new report, this has led to cases in which children are given iPhones so that they can email instant feedback on their teachers, and pupils being invited to sit in on interview panels. One teacher says she was denied promotion after refusing a student’s request to sing the Michael Jackson hit ‘Bad’; another said he was rejected for looking like “Humpty Dumpty”.
Why our schools don’t work
How much longer can we go on ignoring the obvious? asks George Walden. When the independent schools, with just 7 per cent of the total pupils, produce more straight A students than all the comprehensive schools put together, it’s clear that our experiment with non-selective education isn’t working. Yet any debate on this subject is cut off before it begins, with
cries of “11 plus” and “a return to old-style grammars”. The Tories aren’t even challenging Labour on this issue. They have no problem with parents sending their children to selective private schools, yet they believe those who can’t aff ord to opt out should have to put up with a “manifestly inferior” non-selective system. And this is despite the fact that selection by ability takes
place in almost every other country – at 14 in France and Germany, for instance, and in China at 15. These nations have “no qualms about selecting the best-suited to particular lines of study”. We’re the only ones sticking with a defunct egalitarian model whose main consequence, paradoxically, has been a dramatic decrease in social mobility.
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