For a while I have been posting snippits from other web sites. I find familytreehouse a usefull resource to return to when I want that snippit of information for another debate / quest / answer.
Anyway I am sorry to say I have another snippit, from a site on home education, which i have just found.. (ahed)
5.) Treasury statistics show more than 1 in 6 children leave school each year unable to read, write or add up
A subject of frequent news reports and even Treasury statistics:
“Mr Cameron said statistics from the Treasury showed more than one in six children were leaving school unable to read, write or add up.”
Every Child Matters?
Corrected figures:
Every Child Matters?
Each week: 450,000 children are bullied in school
Each year: more than 360,000 children injured in schools
Each year: at least 16 children commit suicide as a result of school bullying
Each year: an estimated 1 million children truant
Each year: more than 1 in 6 children leave school unable to read, write or add up
Every Child Matters?
Home Education
because EACH child matters, individually!
Well my mum for a while has been saying ” If every child matters, so does my Granddaughter.. so I am having a day annual leave”
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