The Conservative Party

inbetween said:
State intervention shouldn't be about wiping our arses all of the time because that is detrimental to everything else as there just aren't unlimited resources. Teachers for example should be teaching and not brushing kid's teeth just because the parents can't be arsed or don't have time to do it.

Would you be happy that your kids are receiving an inadequate education because teachers are too busy brushing teeth and feeding the kids of inadequate parents? It's impossible for the country to employ 2x teachers, one to brush teeth and one to actually teach the kids so everyone suffers.

There are a lot of ideas other than just accepting the problem. Can parents be given the right to more flexible hours? What about subsidising childcare costs or the cost of after school activities etc? Why not actually ask the parents themselves what the problem is? Nobody wants to bring kids up badly, there will be a way to prevent these problems and sort it out.

Some would say that your idea sounds like nanny state but actually it's something that's even worse than now. By removing responsibility we're actually choosing to accept a country where parents can neglect their kids and people can smoke and drink themselves to death because don't worry the state will clean up the mess.
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feeding and brushing the teeth of kids who’s parents can’t be arsed to do so is exactly what we should be doing ….


don’t punish kids for their parents failures.
 
bluethrunthru said:
This is our money folks - being wasted - the Govt that disregarded the "wargame" into a pandemic and that depleted our ability to respond to a threat that their own report said was the biggest threat we faced is now stripping away the capability to combat a future threat. Doubtless the same mentality is the one that has left our military threadbare.

www.mirror.co.uk

Thousands of Covid ventilators bought for £50k flogged off for as little as £100

The Good Law Project found the ventilator machines bought during the coronavirus pandemic are now up for grabs at online auctions, after being kept in expensive storage facilities
www.mirror.co.uk www.mirror.co.uk
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Tax payers money ??
 
inbetween said:
State intervention shouldn't be about wiping our arses all of the time because that is detrimental to everything else as there just aren't unlimited resources. Teachers for example should be teaching and not brushing kid's teeth just because the parents can't be arsed or don't have time to do it.

Would you be happy that your kids are receiving an inadequate education because teachers are too busy brushing teeth and feeding the kids of inadequate parents? It's impossible for the country to employ 2x teachers, one to brush teeth and one to actually teach the kids so everyone suffers.

There are a lot of ideas other than just accepting the problem. Can parents be given the right to more flexible hours? What about subsidising childcare costs or the cost of after school activities etc? Why not actually ask the parents themselves what the problem is? Nobody wants to bring kids up badly, there will be a way to prevent these problems and sort it out.

Some would say that your idea sounds like nanny state but actually it's something that's even worse than now. By removing responsibility we're actually choosing to accept a country where parents can neglect their kids and people can smoke and drink themselves to death because don't worry the state will clean up the mess.
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Nothing to do with a nanny state everything to do with educating children to care for their health.
Education has always had a health component teaching children to clean their teeth is the same as teaching children to wash their hands and eat healthy, it’s all part of learning in school. Learning is about teeth
At my school we had cookery, sewing and knitting for girls as well as house craft, boys metal and woodwork, that was junior school
The curriculum may have changed but children haven’t, in the best of homes children skip teeth cleaning if they can avoid it they will. It’s not about neglect health has a component in the best of school education
 
Kirkstall Blue said:
Nothing to do with a nanny state everything to do with educating children to care for their health.
Education has always had a health component teaching children to clean their teeth is the same as teaching children to wash their hands and eat healthy, it’s all part of learning in school. Learning is about teeth
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It's worth mentioning that when I was in school, I reckon we had a lesson on brushing teeth once. On the other hand, I got a lesson on brushing my teeth every six months from the actual dentist. And that's the issue here. Treating schools as the cheap, easy option. There's nothing wrong with having health lessons in school, but only if you're also properly funding dental care for kids.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
It's worth mentioning that when I was in school, I reckon we had a lesson on brushing teeth once. On the other hand, I got a lesson on brushing my teeth every six months from the actual dentist. And that's the issue here. Treating schools as the cheap, easy option. There's nothing wrong with having health lessons in school, but only if you're also properly funding dental care for kids.
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Teachers put in the same position as the police, expected to plug the gaps in other frontline services that are no longer there.

In some instances they may actually be the better option but only if they are sufficiently funded with the relevant specialists; but as you say it's nothing to do with having the most effective service it's about papering over the cracks caused by cuts in other areas.
 
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