A promise to our workforce that if they do the right thing - finish school, learn manners, present well - we will get them into a decent, stable job that offers prosperity.
Unfortunately starting in the 1970s with the educational modernisers, comprehensives, merit replaced with equality, low expectations. Children are taught that rules, how they speak, dress, behave, their comportment, behaviour towards others, literacy and numeracy don’t matter. Then they leave school and find these things do matter, and whilst their teachers had low expectations, employers have high expectations. It’s a ‘job market’. There’s a buyer and a seller. The buyer wants best value for money, the seller has to convince they are good value for money. Kids don’t do that because they cannot, they haven’t been taught, and consequently don’t think they need to. And after all, if you can’t get a job you get welfare.
Unfortunately starting in the 1970s with the educational modernisers, comprehensives, merit replaced with equality, low expectations. Children are taught that rules, how they speak, dress, behave, their comportment, behaviour towards others, literacy and numeracy don’t matter. Then they leave school and find these things do matter, and whilst their teachers had low expectations, employers have high expectations. It’s a ‘job market’. There’s a buyer and a seller. The buyer wants best value for money, the seller has to convince they are good value for money. Kids don’t do that because they cannot, they haven’t been taught, and consequently don’t think they need to. And after all, if you can’t get a job you get welfare.
Spot on! Tired of presenting a similar objective to my Local Authority.....A View from Halifax.