Reopening SureStart centres and going back to basic Christian ethics would help children become school ready again - Yorkshire Post Letters

From: Canon Michael Storey, Healey Wood Road, Brighouse.

The front page of The Yorkshire Post, October 4, made for some very sad reading, informing the reader that "A third of children not ready for school". There have been other frightening facts about children's education in recent times.

Your article highlights Covid -19 as being one reason for this problem. It mentions that schools and nurseries are having to do potty training etc.

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I suggest that there are some other reasons for this very sad state of things:-

School children in a classroom. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA WireSchool children in a classroom. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire
School children in a classroom. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

1.Single parent families. The ethics of the UK have gone down and down, so that sex life starts too early in relationships - along comes a baby and, one partner leaves, usually the man, and the child is left with one parent - a woman, who then can't do all which used to be done by a proper mother and mother produced and raised children.

2. Tory Government getting rid of SureStart centres. In my time as Chairman of Governors of Dryclough CofE Vol Con Infant School in Crosland Moor, Huddersfield (1987-2006), we were indebted to have the Sure Start Centre built near to our school.

Our school was the largest infant school in Kirklees, with many ethnic origin children and single parent children.

It would be good if the UK went back to some basic Christian ethics, kept by the people, plus the reopening of SureStart Centres.

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