Writing in the Telegraph, U.K. charity leader Sir Peter Lampl has attributed the increase in school absenteeism to remote work practices during the pandemic, underlining its effect on parents’ dedication to sending their children to school. Here’s how his article begins:
I’ve been working to improve social mobility for more than 25 years, having set up the Sutton Trust in 1997 and the Education Endowment Foundation in 2012 to open up access to the best educational opportunities for young people from low-income backgrounds. In all that time, nothing I have seen has concerned me as gravely as the current crisis in school attendance.
Nobody should be underestimating the scale of this problem right now. Even before the dark winter nights arrive, heralding the season of bugs and viruses, persistent absence (defined as pupils missing 10% or more of their lessons) has more than doubled relative to its level before the pandemic. A staggering 30% of secondary school pupils and 20% of primary school pupils are persistently absent from school. That translates into lessons missed that will never be caught up, and opportunities squandered that will never be recovered. It’s a disaster in waiting.
We need to address each of the complex problems behind this emergency. Firstly, we need to look at working from home – and to have an honest conversation about how the ease of moving your working day from the office to your kitchen table has, inevitably, affected the obligation parents feel about getting their kids to go to school. The children’s commissioner Dame Rachel De Souza recently told MPs there was “a huge amount” of absence on Fridays, when “mum and dad are at home”, that “wasn’t there before”. There’s no ignoring the link.
Secondly, there is clearly a pervasive sense that the school closures during lockdown have somehow undermined the social contract that saw parents insist that their kids made it into the classroom except when they genuinely couldn’t. Certainly, it is harder to make the case to parents that a missed day of school here and there really matters when not long ago schools were shuttered for six months. This attitude needs challenging, too.
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‘….a huge amount” of absence on Fridays’
What nonsense is this?
It certainly isn’t evidence.
No doubt, if employers really require their employees back in the office, they would offer a decent workplace with, for example, a decent lunch.
A stuffy noisy open plan office after an unpleasant commute will not entice anyone.
Lampl may be part of the problem not the solution……
What a quaint idea that employers should provide a balanced diet lunch for staff.
Indeed. It will never catch on. In fact, decent British Companies like Ferranti used to do it.
In Denmark, they all do it:
‘Another benefit usually offered to everyone at the company is a lunch, usually a hot lunch.
This is a business strategy as much as a benefit: the company doesn’t want its people disappearing in the middle of the day to go find a sandwich or order the three-course prix fixe in a restaurant. They want them to refuel for 30 minutes and get back to their desks.
Small companies often pay for an external vendor to bring one or two dishes per day that everyone shares. Bigger companies have in-house chefs who produce a huge spread with salad options, home-baked bread and vegetarian options. These companies often provide breakfast in addition to lunch, and sometimes dinners for people who work the late shift. In some places, you can order (and pay for) a pre-packed dinner to take home and share with your family.’
YOUR FREE DAILY BANANA AND FIVE WEEKS OFF: JOB BENEFITS IN DENMARK
Oh….Denmark working from home only 28% during the ‘pandemic’, by Aug 2022 back down to 11%, 3.4% lower than the previous quarter and only 3% higher than before the ‘pandemic’…….
Free daily bananas seem to work…….
But it can be done, a major employer in London (I’m sure there were others) provided us with a full meal every day, heck there was even a bar in the basement for socialising after hours.
All pre covid though, I wonder if it’s still in operation?
I’m guessing that the work-from-home crowd is not from a low-income background needing the education for their kids’ social mobility. Maybe these workers realize that their children are doing all right without indoctrination in their schools (or does that only happen in the US?). The last two lines of the article about schools not considering themselves important by closing down for months on end certainly contributes to the attitude.
The indoctrination is ongoing in the UK too. Home schooling in England is at its highest level ever since the covid lockdowns & school closures. Many more parents have realised that schools are political indoctrination & grooming operations.
A more robust investigation into the reasons behind the non-return of children to schools is the very least a sceptical journalist should have done.
The work from home crowd was the most zealous of the Rona tards – namely the White zoom and laptop crowd. In our firm (major investment bank) I am in the office 4 days a week – and I am the anomaly. Why is it important? Productivity. I am 2 x more productive on average than the zoomers at home. I am teaching my kids about work – up at 6 am – leave by 7:15 (in 10 mins I am gone), after a prayer, some breakfast and getting everyone else up before I leave. In other words get off your ass and go work and be a normal person. Home schooling which I support is an entirely different subject matter. Work is work. Saving your kids from mental degradation is vital but not related to my work as an adult.
The work from home crowd would be stuffed though if some people didn’t go into the office. For instance all those computers they zoom / network into don’t fix themselves and while some computer maintenance tasks can be done remotely the majority require someone on site to do it.
Which came about for most as a result of being told to do so. Should have left the adults to make their own decisions and be responsible for them.
Interesting. Children spending time with the parents instead of at school is bad for the children, is it?
I suppose it depends on the parents, the school and the amount of time away from school.
Some schools can be pretty toxic places and perhaps a bit of extra time with the parents to balance out the relentless woke propaganda might not be a terrible thing.
Depends on the circumstances, I would think.
Speaking of indoctrination, removing children from being indoctrinated & solutions to try to thwart the ongoing control of us by the parasite class.
A list of WEF business partners is a good place to start to remove our patronage from enriching the parasites & may well be beneficial to our ongoing health as so many of these companies produce foods, drinks & products for the home.
It may not be much but it’s something that we can all try to do with minimal financial cost.
https://www.weforum.org/communities/strategic-partnership-b5337725-fac7-4f8a-9a4f-c89072b96a0d
You cannot fight a non stop propaganda campaign re Covid & climate ‘catastrophe’ and not expect some families to become so frightened of both that they keep the kids home for every sniffle and keep them home for every weather warning.
That is what I am seeing.
When they’re at school children get indoctrinated with anti-white, anti-hetero, anti-Christan propaganda.
When they’re not at school, they experience far less of such indoctrination.
The writing is on the wall – who’d have foreseen that free education for all would be needed for only ~150 years? State education is in a blind-alley. ‘AI’ removes the need for drones. Compulsory schooling 200 days a year for 10+ years is passé. For some groups it has already become child-minding on the State so, if you’re an adult at home, why bother sending them? Those that have an inquiring mind will learn on the internet.