This is a blog about all our people out there, not just dyslexics. All we do at working class school is prepare our kids for employment or failure.
Employment for the vast majority of working class kids is in low paid low skilled go nowhere jobs. Moreover, there are just no jobs available for many young people to apply. Hence the large numbers of unemployed kids out there. According to statistics 767,000 young people aged 16-24 were unemployed in April / June 2014. That's over a quarter of a million young people with no work, they have no income no access to benefits nothing.
The other option is failure because we bury them along with their hopes and dreams under a barrage of tests and exams that teach many of them that school is boring, that education is not exciting or worth while or that they are failures because they do not all get AA results.
Look at any support services for young people all being cut in the name of austerity. Precious little of those out there for them to access.
Employment is seen as the be all and end all by our uk parliament. If you have no job or there are no jobs then you have no worth and you are nothing.....Not even a human being anymore just a statistic to bandy about glibly. Just an easy target for Westminster to blame, deride or bully.
Young people need to be nurtured, invested in, encouraged and supported because they are our future. Instead we see them demonised, victimised and demoralised.
In my reasonable long life I have several generations of young people's lives blighted but by the political leaders of the day. But this time is different because we have austerity that appears to have no end in sight. All we have are cuts and more cuts that will only serve to erode young people's opportunities, hopes and dreams.
Who is to blame for this? You tell me.........
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