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The government’s proposal that shop workers should help kickstart children’s early development is laughable
Parents, we’ve all been there: a high-street shoe shop in early September. Everyone with a school-aged child has simultaneously realised that if they don’t get around to buying shoes today, the kids are going to have to start the year wearing flip-flops, or wellies. The queue is out of the door, heaps of small black lace-ups litter the aisles. Babies are wailing. Somebody’s toddler has got a foot stuck in the measuring machine. It’s too hot in the store, and there’s a heady scent of sweat and wee. Your own children are desperate to leave because you rashly bribed them to come here with the promise of a trip to the Lego shop and a doughnut.
How, you might wonder, could this annual ritual get any more hellish? As ever, the government is one step ahead
Continue reading...from The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/30/education-clarks-shoes-tory-shop-child-development
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