Let’s start with the basics, Ed.
Posted: November 8, 2009 Filed under: Politics | Tags: Ed Balls, Education, Illiterate, Innumerate, Schools Leave a comment »Apparently, under new plans laid out by Ed Balls, children in schools will now be learning:
about personal finance, alcohol and drugs, healthy lifestyles, and sex and relationships in PSHE – personal, social, health and economic education.
Leaving aside the fact that most of these things are taught in schools anyway, shouldn’t we be teaching the 50% of illiterate and innumerate kids to read, write and count, first?
