Shouldn't Schools Be Spending Their Time Teaching Our Children The Three 'rs'?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.independent.co.uk/learn-to-live/learn-to-live-sadiq-khan-london-mayor-schools-twin-campaign-war-child-a8540916.html

Yes it is terrible that some children abroad, don't have the advantages that those children living in the UK have, but is it worth filling our children's heads with the hardships of other country's children, especially when they can do nothing at all to ease their sufferings?

[Mamyalynne]

The three Rs are easily included in all manner of lessons and activities from cookery,gardening,play and communication.

If the busy schedule can accommodate some of the above mentioned campaign then it doesn't seem a bad idea.
Children are eager to learn.

[The_Rim_Greaper]

teach them more science etc...then we wont need to import people at a later date because ours dont have the required knowledge and skills...

just more leftie claptrap to brainwash them with.... leftie ideology and claptrap

[douglas9401]

Maybe just go back to every child getting a wee envelope home and mum/dad/non binary carer could drop a thrupenny bit in and move on.

[sanmac]

Yet another meaningless, righteous, harebrained scheme conjured up by a "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" bunch of characters comes floating down from their lofty ivory-tower positions.

[Togo]

Universities now concentrate on ethnic studies, women's studies, transgender studies, and Marxist-politicized versions of sociology and psychology, while sneering at maths, physics, and engineering. Meanwhile, they blame our school's humiliatingly low test scores and Third World rates of illiteracy on "racism," "poverty," "white privilege," "toxic masculinity," and every other fashionable "outrage" the Left can dream up to justify their illogical lunacy and deflect the real reason for the declining illiteracy amongst our children and young adults. The fact that their own policies and curriculum are the cause. Now we have an acolyte of the failed system wanting to put the kids on a guilt trip on their behalf. Wicked beyond belief.

[Buenchico]

When I was at primary school, in the early 60s, links between British classrooms and those in Africa and India were considered to be very important, so that we could learn about life in other parts of the world. So I see nothing particularly new in the scheme endorsed by Sadiq Khan, which seems an excellent one to me.

However it might also be worth teaching children in London a little more about their own city's history. A few years ago I supervised a survey monitoring the movements of workers going in and out of an office block located right next to the Monument. I was working with a team of half a dozen young Londoners (in their 20s and 30s), all of whom had been born and bred in the city. They asked me why the Monument was there; not one of them had ever heard of the Great Fire of London!

[naomi24]

I trust Khan and his agenda about as much as I could throw him..... and brawny I ain't.

[Theland]

Include it in the sharia classes maybe?

[Mamyalynne]

War Child, the charity that is part of this campaign have long been doing work in Schools and local communities.


I also agree with Buenchico, this type of learning is not particularly new.