Gareth Morgan is right to say “we are obsessed with assessing” our children
- but he seems obsessed with assessing them even earlier.
I’m surprised he
hasn’t assessed the overseas assessments which show 17% of children in early childhood
education are aggressive, disobedient and engaged in conflict. Shy children
in daycare are assessed as more stressed, showing markedly higher levels of
cortisol. A third study assesses daycare children as being no better off
academically than homecare. I would assess the children from poorer backgrounds whom he assesses as
“two years behind” as far more likely to be affected by the lack of a father
than lack of early childhood education.
Gareth Morgan would win more votes by pledging government subsidies for fulltime parental homecare, to the same tune as the subsidies already in place for early childhood ‘education’.
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