What a load of (Ed) Balls!

Ed Balls wants to place all parents under suspicion that they MAY abuse their children.

Those that send their children to school are mainly tolerated because THEIR children are seen by professionals every schoolday, those that exercise their legal right to determine their own means of educating their children outside the school system need to be monitored and inspected because he doesn't trust them to care for their own children.

Meanwhile, his own wife admits that when their 2 year old daughter fell out of bed and came down the corridor crying for her mother she ".. had to leap up and slam the door in her face, and then put the duvet over my head so the listeners couldn't hear her .." because obviously a radio interview is much more important than caring for your child!!

Frankly Ed, I don't think I trust you or Evette to properly care for your child, I certainly don't trust you or your underlings to care for mine!

On the subject of education, I was absolutely speechless for quite some time when I read this article in the Telegraph about a training manual produced as part of the Government's National Literacy Strategy, aimed at boosting teachers' grammatical knowledge. It describes what full stops, question marks and commas are for and stoops to the level of having to explain thing such as "In writing, we mark sentences by using a capital letter at the beginning, and a full stop (or question mark or exclamation mark) at the end."

If these teachers have such poor grammar, how did they ever pass their exams and gain jobs as teachers?

Do they seriously expect that I should entrust the education of my children to such incompetent fools? They must be kidding!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2007/apr/07/gender.women
http://m.telegraph.co.uk/article/6142519/
Teachers professional development - grammar for reading course handbook