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Schools closed as teachers strike
Tuesday, 19 May 2009 10:47 UK

Two newly-designated academy schools in Essex, Chalvedon and Barstable, are closed because more than 120 teachers have gone on strike. The strike happened in co-operation with the NUT and NASUWT, two teaching unions. There are plans to change the schools into academies on 1 September, when the schools will be taken over by the Basildon Academies trust. The teachers do not want that to happen. The Unions and teachers are afraid that this step will suffer the consequences of increasing working hours of the teachers and shorter holidays. According to the Principal of the Academies Trust this is just a rumor and such a thing will not happen. Members of the teaching unions are angry because they are afraid that the employment conditions will get difficult and unpleasant.

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It is not nice to hear that the school you work for is going to be taken over and that the school will change into an academy. When there are talks like that you, as an employee, will get insecure. You will never know whether the conditions will be the same or worse than before. Fact is that when there is a question of being taken over that the conditions will change in a more negative way. If I were a teacher at one of these schools, than I would go on strike too. I will not like it when they increase my working hours or decrease the holidays because of a taking
over.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/8057145.stm

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Last February there was a news article published in The Sun which caused a lot of fuss. This article was about Alfie Patten, a twelve -year -old boy, who according to his fifteen-year-old girlfriend, Chantelle Stedman, is the father of her child. Baby Maisie was born at Eastbourne District General Hospital on February 9 this year. Nearly immediately serious questions were raised about whether Alfie, could in fact be the child's real father. Although Chantelle Stedman has insisted all the time that Alfie is the father of her child, six other young boys said that they had also slept with Chantelle. After a court judgment DNA tests have shown that not Alfie Patten is the father of Chantelle Stedman’s baby but the fifteen-year-old Tayler Barker is. Tyler Banker has admitted having unprotected sex with the girl after spending the night drinking at her home, but he never thought it was going to be such a big problem, because Chantelle said she would take the morning after pill. Even her mother knew the kids were going to have sex.

Debate: kids are having kids

Arguments in favor:
- Nowadays it is not a big problem when young children become a parent because there are a lot of professional provisions for financial and psychological support for this target group.
- Children who become parent have more Sense of responsibility.
- Having a child on that age would be better than having an abortion. An abortion would be against faith.

Arguments against:
- No chance to study.
- You can lose your family by hurting their feelings.
- Raising a child is just too expensive so they will face financial difficulties.
- Face an insecure future.
- Your youth slips through your fingers.
- We should offer young children more and better sex education.
- The parents are educators; it is their responsibility to correct their children.
- Sex on this age is not good for the development of young children.

My conclusion:
Today’s children are psychically more mature, but kids having kids is in my opinion extremely worrying. It has become a vexed question in society. We can blame the parents or another kind of sort educator, but I think we must blame the authorities and institutes like Children’s Help Lines and Child Welfare Councils. I think that authorities have too much voice in social questions under which upbringing. We all know the procedures and methods of working of these authorities. They always stand up for the rights of the children what makes that parent have less to say. Even when you spank your child correctively this could cause difficulties for you as a parent. Because of the fact that parents have less to say children have more room to move, with all its consequences.

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