Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment
Milburn’s ‘make somebody responsible’ for identifying ‘warning signs’ at an ‘early, early’ age is problematic on so many levels. Let me, a teacher, sort this for Labour: the warning signs revolve around poverty; so politicians are responsible… www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
bee 'hyphen' moh8Needing the social safety net now a pre-crime under Burnham's Labour.
Fiona7I'm a teacher with pastoral responsibility. My husband, who used to be a teacher, now works for children's services. You're obviously entirely correct. End poverty, reduce inequality and provide proper funding to support people who've experienced trauma. So many problems would be resolved.
Robin-DeBowler4Having calmed down, I reflected and think it is a great idea. An honest teacher today would identify 90% of their pupils as 'at risk' of leaving schooling at 16 without employment. Maybe if the government were honest about the 7million job shortage we wouldn't get this devious deflecting shit.
Robin-DeBowler3What totally boils my piss is that nobody has bothered to say to him. 'yes but Alan children are not the cause of unemployment, governments and corporations are'. Lets identify government actions that cause children to leave school without employment opportunity. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Jenn Witha Doublenn2As society is pushing nothing but AI - doesn’t every kid’s future look jobless from here?!
ChayBristol1Yup, it's poverty, shite housing, a lack of 'Sure Start' and places to play and explore. Oh and you can ban religious and 'free schools' and private funded education whilst you are at it.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026... As a teacher, I can only say that this is both fucking insane and deeply malign (unintentionally, I hope!) as a piece of social engineering…
Chris7Assumptions will be made about kids on the basis of that kid’s background, the influence and wealth of their parents, their rate of development (which can vary enormously), their accent and speech, their behaviour and maturity, all of which will lead to hugely subjective takes…
Jeff2Jesus H. I hope all the good teachers can see where this is headed. Those families struggling with enforced poverty have been disadvantaged by default for decades. 😳😬
Paul C. Dobbs1This is terrible. It's evidentially clear that streaming (ie. stigmatising) students makes things worse. Take a leaf out of Finland's book
Chris1I find myself saying this a lot about Labour’s education policy these days…
Minority Report for Jobs or Born to Fail! Future unemployed to be identified at primary school by teachers bit.ly/4fK5agS
Susanita2Radical idea ; let’s support every child to achieve to the best of their ability . Let’s get them to levels of numeracy & literacy that will support them throughout life & employment . If we do that , the rest follows.
Jeswings1The children are identified . . . then what? Well researched programme employing extra staff and TAs to intervene? Tell teachers with 30+ pupils to do even more?
Identifying the employability of primary school kids? Wow. What jobs will anyone have in an ai-driven oligarch future? www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
AnthonyF2721So a teacher marks the personal file of a 10 year old "this kid's a moron and has no future"?
DoctorDee 🇺🇦 Слава Україні1In the future, we'll be given good rations for hamster-wheeling power generation for data centres.
Carol McNamara1We truly are led by donkeys. Are teachers supposed to be psychic?
Can it really be true that teachers could spot a child in preschool and accurately predict they will end up as a NEET, as Milburn suggests here? apple.news/AmRt6QTniQt-...
Andy Econo2Assuming the NEET figures correlate with class, there's already a wealth of data underlying how teacher's class biases create self fulfilling prophecies.
David Sword2EY teachers working in partnership with others such as social workers and health practitioners, are well placed to identify children who are at risk of poor educational outcomes ... and most importantly to plan together to minimise the risks.
zakalwe2024.bsky.social1My younger brother was once described by a teacher to my parents as a “bit retarded” (he isn’t at all). For the last 25 years has been land manager of a 100 acre vineyard/farmstead, and is the only person I trust to use a chainsaw safely. Good luck to teachers spotting NEETs at that age.
