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Grumpy Old Deafies
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Parliament: Deaf Education, No Official Statistics
Posted: July 11th, 2008, 9:25pm UTC
Deaf children's education or rather the standards, has been a subject that has been buried under the carpet by consecutive governments. Its a subject that plays like a broken record, and the same mistakes made decade after decade, with no-one actually listening. There was a question in parliament around educational attainment: Stewart Jackson (Whip, Whips; Peterborough, Conservative) To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what proportion of deaf and hard of hearing children gained five or more GCSEs at grade C and above in the Peterborough City Council area in the last year for which figures are available; (2) what proportion of children gained at least two A-levels in the ...