A blog which is mainly about home educating in the UK.
Friday, February 08, 2008
The Next Reason to Home Educate
...parents actually take their responsibilities towards their children seriously. They don't want their progeny ending up in the situation of the presumably schooled children who were featured recently in Channel 4's Dispatches: Why Children Kill.
There is nothing complicated about the reasons children use matter of fact violence. it has nothing, I repeat nothing to do with boredom either. children say this because adults believe it. Where there are 'ghetto-ised' areas and less love and care from some parents for whatever reasons then kids take care of themselves. I grew up in this way, and until council areas no longer exist, it will simply continue.
Is there a way to prevent children from slipping into this sort of situation when they do live in a ghetto-ised area, do you think?
I know of one family who HE in the middle of a very violent estate. Their children are doing very well, one way or another. They do get knifed and beaten up, but don't do it themselves. They get themselves into college and are kind, insightful, educated, fun children...so it has worked to a limited extent for this family...but there must be more that could be done to protect them....
There is nothing complicated about the reasons children use matter of fact violence. it has nothing, I repeat nothing to do with boredom either. children say this because adults believe it. Where there are 'ghetto-ised' areas and less love and care from some parents for whatever reasons then kids take care of themselves. I grew up in this way, and until council areas no longer exist, it will simply continue.
ReplyDeleteIs there a way to prevent children from slipping into this sort of situation when they do live in a ghetto-ised area, do you think?
ReplyDeleteI know of one family who HE in the middle of a very violent estate. Their children are doing very well, one way or another. They do get knifed and beaten up, but don't do it themselves. They get themselves into college and are kind, insightful, educated, fun children...so it has worked to a limited extent for this family...but there must be more that could be done to protect them....