Get your own house in order

The government is busy attacking home educating families, wanting to make them more like schools, subject to targets and inspections yet for all the changes to the school system and all the money thrown into education, all the targets, inspections and so called ever increasing exam grades we seem to be getting more and more articles like the one below:-

Too many' cannot read and write

An "unacceptably" high number of people in England cannot read, write and count properly, MPs have warned.

The Public Accounts Committee said in 2007 51,000 pupils left school without a GCSE of at least D-G in maths and 39,000 left without this in English.

The report into adult literacy and numeracy also warned that only one in five offenders with poor basic skills had enrolled on a course to help them.

Ministers said no other government had invested so much in basic skills.

The committee of MPs said a lack of up-to-date information about skills meant the government could not be sure its schemes to improve basic skills were working.

Chairman of the PAC Edward Leigh said anyone who believed the government could meet its target of 95% adult literacy and numeracy by 2020 was "living in cloud cuckooland".

"Whilst they have made some progress, I don't think there's the remotest chance they will reach that," he told the BBC.

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