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Double standards

17 December 2004 by Tim

Think about it, you go on about how five is much too young for starting kids’ education and sending them off to school but as soon as yours can close their hand round a wooden block you’re off on the autonomous, child centred, child led…..

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  1. Sarah, Roo and Kids says

    17 December 2004 at 23:17

    But going to school and starting education are 2 different things surely?

  2. Jan says

    17 December 2004 at 23:19

    It isn’t that they are too young to learn, but too young to be separated from their parents for much of the day

  3. Tim says

    17 December 2004 at 23:29

    My first memory of school is of being told to stop learning. ๐Ÿ™‚

  4. jax says

    17 December 2004 at 23:35

    Which was obviously during the lesson about contraction and apostrophes! ๐Ÿ™‚

  5. Tim says

    17 December 2004 at 23:39

    You what? ๐Ÿ™‚

  6. jax says

    18 December 2004 at 00:51

    Cheat!

  7. Chris says

    18 December 2004 at 00:55

    OMG it wasn’t ‘kid’s education’ was it????

  8. Tim says

    18 December 2004 at 01:32

    You see if you are going to make the odd little slip, maybe when you push your girlfriend’s nanny’s visa application to the head of the queue, you had better be able to erase all the correspondence.

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