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That's an A* for dirty tricks, parenting mafia - and a U for child-rearing skills | New... - 0 views

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UK parenting education snowplow skills independence

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  • In today’s educational pressure cooker, UK parents feel they have no choice but to play the system. One in 10 better-off parents have admitted to feigning religious observance to get into a good faith school — twice the rate of poorer parents — while more than one in 20 have admitted using a false address during the admissions process, according to a study by the Sutton Trust charity.
  • Around one in five pupils at private schools are awarded extra time to finish their GCSE and A-level exams — partly because their parents are more willing to push for a diagnosis of special educational needs.
  • According to one survey, half of youngsters take their parents to open days, apparently without embarrassment, so they can ask questions about the accommodation and coursework. Some are spotted still hanging around during freshers’ week.
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  • One mother told me her daughter contacted her via FaceTime every night to follow instructions on how to cook supper.
  • A college principal at a leading university told me he received calls from parents hundreds of miles away complaining about a broken radiator in their son or daughter’s room
  • Parents I interviewed proudly told me how they spent the first few days of their child’s time at university demonstrating how to use a washing machine, fitting out their rooms, checking the fire extinguishers worked and renewing their travel passes.
  • It seems that in the manic race to help our children obtain A*s, there hasn’t been time to teach them the basic skills they need to look after themselves. The tragedy of all this is that we are not producing a brave new world of more accomplished wunderkind. Instead, we are producing the most anxious.
  • By removing hardships, educators point out, we are infantilising a generation who can’t fix their own problems or take responsibility — and who constantly expect us to ride to the rescue.
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