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New guidelines for under 5s
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Babies will be assessed on their gurgling, babbling and toe-playing abilities when they are a few months old under a legally enforced national curriculum for children from birth to five published by the government yesterday.
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A small taster...
Birth-11 months
· Communicate in a variety of ways including crying, gurgling, babbling and screaming
· Play with their own fingers and toes and focus on objects around them
· Discover mark-making by chance, noticing, for instance, that trailing a finger through spilt juice changes it
Wow, I really have no words for this at the moment.
Source
A small taster...
Birth-11 months
· Communicate in a variety of ways including crying, gurgling, babbling and screaming
· Play with their own fingers and toes and focus on objects around them
· Discover mark-making by chance, noticing, for instance, that trailing a finger through spilt juice changes it
Wow, I really have no words for this at the moment.
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or perhaps condemn them to the low classes in school ?
what a crock of shit. It's bad enough the wee ones have to be tested in primary school, now this? poor lil guys
standardised testing just doesn't work for young children, they're all learning at different paces.
I only scanned through it but I'm the same. No idea what to say.
What a waste of time.
Certainly doesnt seem to take into account what could very easily still just be natural differences between different children and absolutely nothing to worry about. Differences can be HUGE. Some babies walk competently at 8 or 9 months old - some dont walk until nearer 24 months. Both completely normal, so whether they play with their toes or not at the recommended age is hardly going to be a big deal.
i don't think my brother was diagnosed till he was 8, and he'd had symptoms since he was 2. He used to get so much shit off the teachers too. Our primary school was very harsh - when i stood up for him when he was being bullied, a teacher turned it round and said it was me that was picking on him to cover up the fact that there was a huge bully problem there. I was grounded for a month. He still doesn't get the support he's entitled to now, and my parents must have been to about 20 meetings since he's been at secondary.
Off topic sorry
I can't see many parents wanting their baby observed like a rat in a lab.
Perhaps it's the constant assessment which we subject our kids too these days...
You should then be beaten because you are a BAD PARENT.
Fucking hell. And people still vote for this shower of shit. Stupid gets what stupid deserves, its just a shame I have to fucking live with it too.
I really hope al Qaeda take out all 639 of the cunts.
After all this isn't about a proper health check it's about the following -
And given the success of certain alternative educational methods (I'm thinking of the free form early developmental classes used in Sweden) especially in helping people with developmental problems then I'm particularly loving this bit.
Which basically reads like even centers dealing with severe mental and physical disabilities will have to mark babies off on a score card or lose all funding.
It's five - it's at 5 for god's sake.
When I was at school homework didn't start till secondary school, when Blair was in education it was 100% free until the end of University. labeling people with numbers, assuming all childhood can be matched against a graph or matrix to produce systems of teaching based on the norm rather than individual need, taking away from teachers the ability to explore subjects outside of strict criteria for tests, assuming that a 3 means a success and a 2 means a fail with no interest in the development or dare we say it happiness of a child...
I'm mad as hell and I'm starting to sound like Seeker! :grump:
I work with a child very smilar to this. He was standing at 9 months (with help) but wasn't crawling until about 10 months.
Why are they so obsessed with assessments? Can't we just let babies be babies and let them do whatever like? (that is, just be a baby and not have to be assessed)
Indeed.
In one way I can see why they're doing this, but why should it be the job of staff at nursery and not the health visitor?
How ridiculous. Senor Miguel seems to have the right idea anyway.
I think they're phasing out health visitors aren't they? Now, that I think is a very bad idea, a very very bad idea.
Not too sure, tbh.
I think it's bad enough now that the staff at my work placement (I don't know if this is a company thing or whether all nurseries have to do this) have to fill in sheets for the under 2s. The sheets basically say what they've eaten, what they've played with/done and when they had their nappy checked. Waste of time really; they already have a space on the register where they have to write what they've eaten/drunk and what their nappies were like...
Oh if only nominations hadn't stopped for POTW. I actually burst out laughing.
Kids should be kids - which means play and messing about. I fail to see why anyone becomes a teacher now, it must be the worst job around.
Not to my knowledge...
The forcefeeding of proganda through the umbilical cord.