Children are taught too soon 
    Children are being forced into formal lessons at too
    young an age, a committee of MPs warned yesterday.
    
    In a report, the Commons Education Select Committee
    also said children were being forced to start school too
    soon. It urged the Government to review the financial
    pressures that force schools to enrol as many
    four-year-olds as possible, and pressure on parents to
    take a place at a chosen school as soon it comes up. 

    Barry Sheerman, committee chairman, said: "We don't
    want to see very young children sitting in classes of 30
    being taught by one member of staff in a regimented
    way." They had seen a class of three-year-olds with one
    teacher tracing letters of the alphabet, he said. 

    A spokesman for the Department for Education and
    Employment said: "... we don't think it is too early for
    children to start developing the skills they need for 
    later educational development." 

    By Judith Judd, Education Editor 
    12 January 2001

    "The Independent" - English broadsheet

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

    "Perceptions note:

    The inherent bias of senior civil servants is examined at

    http://www.perceptions.couk.com/subindex.html#civil

    while the hidden (sometimes even to themselves) motives of
    both politicians and senior civil servants is detailed at 

    http://www.perceptions.couk.com/laworjustice.html#PERVERT

    and also at

    http://www.perceptions.couk.com/devices.html#and

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

              FURTHER REFERENCES

  GO - "search perceptions" - in SEARCH-ENGINE


file-ID www.perceptions.couk.com/psychotix.txt