fox123 Posted 28 January 2011 Posted 28 January 2011 Id just like to expand on my previous post... I'm not sure if it's currently in place, but I feel that kids as young as Year 6 should be educated more on the benefit system. he yshould be made aware that just because their parents may think it's socially acceptable to be claiming all that they can off the state, it really isn't and there is a better way of living. Also incorporate this with finance lessons, savings - social policy for kids. Like I say it may already be in place and I really hope it is.
Finnegan Posted 28 January 2011 Posted 28 January 2011 I agree and I disagree. Or at least, that is I agree but I'd quibble slightly over execution. You need to structure it in a way that isn't simply "finance lessons." Kids don't really want to be sat down and lectured on being prudent or forward thinking. As a society we need to be intelligent and subtle with how exactly we go about educating our youth and best preparing them for the future. I'm fully behind anything that gives them a better fiscal understanding and a better awareness of their role in society throughout their education but it has to be something that's interwoven into the curriculum and not simply forced home. I'd also like to see it expanded, I'd like to see the concept of careers advice given far more thought. Through school I probably had less than ten lessons on careers in total and a shocking amount of those involved God awful personality tests like Kudos which took a few questions off you and recommended a career path. Obviously you can't put a ten year old's life on rails from an early stage, forcing them into making vital life choices, but we can begin teaching from a much younger age that there's more to life than go through school, go through university, get a big paycheck. I left school at eighteen as an intelligent, well educated teenager with some stable part time work and a good set of A-Levels on my CV. But I still knew absolutely fuck all about the world of real work and how to tackle it and I'm still suffering for it now. And I'm by no means alone. Over the last year I've worked with a lot of lads that have gone on a CIty Council scheme funded with money from Future Jobs and Working Neighbourhoods and the sheer lack of understanding about life in the work place has been simply eye-opening. The system completely failed every, single one of them.
Jackirius Posted 28 January 2011 Posted 28 January 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/interactive/2010/oct/19/comprehensive-spending-review-cuts#/IgQAkAAgAAkABCIQoAAhoQogiICiIGICAI3fcDA857XBASAB/U29tZW9uZQ== £258.3 Billion, easy.
adam1 Posted 28 January 2011 Posted 28 January 2011 you brutal, evil man. What? I'm a socialist at heart. No major cuts anywhere. Just 75% to Scotland, 50% to wales. Oh, I don't currently drive so you might have an issue where I privatised 10% of the road network and gained £75bn.
The Doctor Posted 28 January 2011 Posted 28 January 2011 What? I'm a socialist at heart. No major cuts anywhere. Just 75% to Scotland, 50% to wales. Oh, I don't currently drive so you might have an issue where I privatised 10% of the road network and gained £75bn. you spotting the contradiction there? Also although i'm all for disbanding the union, why are wales more deserving of funding than us?
Finnegan Posted 28 January 2011 Posted 28 January 2011 why are wales more deserving of funding than us? Charlotte Church's chebs.
The Doctor Posted 28 January 2011 Posted 28 January 2011 Charlotte Church's chebs. fair point. Such an irritating voice though.
adam1 Posted 30 January 2011 Posted 30 January 2011 you spotting the contradiction there? Not really. I should have made my point clearer. No major cuts which will affect me or most Leicester fans (as we live in england). Give a fuck. I'd smash it
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