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January 31st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Laura Clark
Last updated at 7:29 AM on 31st January 2012
Parents who neglect basic duties such as preparing meals and enforcing bedtimes are breeding a feckless ‘underclass’ who cause mayhem on the nation’s streets, it was claimed yesterday.
Charlie Taylor, the Government’s behaviour tsar, criticised homes with ‘little conversation’ where children as young as eight are left to fend for themselves at mealtimes and play on the computer late into the night.
Many of these youngsters end up ‘out on the streets’ by their early teens, he said. Some of the rioters responsible for wreaking havoc during last summer’s disturbances in cities around Britain came from homes where mothers and fathers fail to perform ‘the most basic of parenting duties’, he added.
Riots: Mr Taylor claims bad parenting is to blame for the scenes in London last summer
In a speech today, Mr Taylor also claimed that centres meant to educate school drop-outs were ‘little more than holding pens’ where youngsters play pool and surf Facebook.
He said some poorly-run alternative education units left youngsters prey to the lure of local gangs who provided a ‘sense of belonging’.
In his speech, Mr Taylor, a head teacher, echoed Education Secretary Michael Gove’s claim that an ‘educational underclass’ had contributed to last summer’s riots.
Many had been excluded from school and had few qualifications.
Referring to those involved in the riots, he said: ‘We know who these children are.
No boundaries: No bedtime or family meals are being blamed for the riots which caused scenes such as this one in Croydon, London, on August 9, 2011
‘Many come from homes where their mothers and fathers have been unable to perform the most basic of parenting duties.
‘I recently met with a mother at my own school and asked her about the routines for her eight-year-old – let’s call him Luke – in the home.
‘”What sort of thing does he eat?
‘”I don’t really know, he just helps himself from the fridge when he is hungry and puts it in the microwave”,’ she answered.
‘“And what time does he go to bed?”
‘”I don’t know, he has an XBox in his room and switches it off when he gets tired.”
‘No meals, no bedtimes. It is children like Luke without boundaries and often without love who end up out on the streets by the time they are in their early teens.’
Pockets of rioting and looting took place in various boroughs of London, as well as in Birmingham, last summer
Mr Taylor’s remarks contrast with senior Labour MP David Lammy’s claim that his party’s partial ban on smacking was to blame for last summer’s riots.
Mr Lammy, a former education minister, demanded a return to Victorian laws on discipline, insisting that working-class parents needed to be able to use corporal punishment to prevent tearaway children joining gangs.
He claimed parents were ‘no longer sovereign in their own homes’ and feared that social workers would take their children away if they chastised them.
Mr Taylor, head of The Willows, a school in West London for youngsters with behavioural difficulties, was asked by Education Secretary Michael Gove to produce a report on alternative education provision for expelled youngsters following last summer’s riots.
He said alternative education centres – many of them council-run pupil referral units – educate up to 50,000 children.
‘With a lack of incentive or direction from schools, the worst alternative providers are little more than holding pens to keep children quiet until they leave school,’ said Mr Taylor, in a speech to a group of head teachers in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
‘They become prolific at pool or sit on Facebook all day, without making academic or any other meaningful progress.’
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What about the middle class parents who let their children run amok? Bad parenting is not solely prolific amongst the lower classes of society. As a teacher in a large primary school in an affluent part of Poole, I frequently have to witness parents ‘giving in’ to their children’s demands on the playground before and after school, bribing with sweets and other rewards for doing menial tasks such as carrying their own bookbag (I swear this has happened!). I have had the embarrasing task of disciplining pupils in front of their beleaguered parents for rudeness and obstinance and then been thanked by the parent! What is the world coming to?! The documentary on BBC 2 tonight, ‘My Child the Rioter’, said it all. Parents smiling at their children’s ‘confidence’ and attitude, saying they were saddened but not angry. Disgusting behaviour. I wonder if all the affected shop owners/home owners would find it so hilarious?
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So it’s all the parent’s fault that people were rioting, and it had nothing to do with an innocent man being shot by the Police? Pull the other one….– Carl, London, Redarrowsville, 31/1/2012. What innocent man are you talking about, I don’t recall any innocent person being shot, only a drug dealing criminal.
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No, Sorry
It was the RIOTERS that are to blame.
Anyone that was there at the time was to BLAME.
No one else. Period
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This is the biggest load of rubish you will ever hear,They were just of bunch of criminal thugs who have been allowed to carrry on their criminal trade aided and abetted by out of touch judges and weak politicians, we need sentances that fit the crimes and stop spoiling these thugs.
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Face the fact. The Parents were there rioting with the kids. It is a totally out of control rubbish society.
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Feral families, not just kids now.
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Steven, Coventry @ 15:10. You may be correct that Smacking is not illegal, but what you and I consider to be an acceptable smack, there is the danger that a ‘holier than thou’ do-gooder who will consider it to be a beating and report it to the police.
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How about less barriers for parents who can just give them a slap when THEIR child has broken the law or a house rule, how about the police getting more powers to be able to drop you and not worry about ‘your human rights’ how about the police and teachers give you a punch when you show them a lack of respect. Oh let my tell you why not because as i said before ‘human rights’ they have screwed our country up and given young people the belief they are untouchable from anyone. I agree with basic human rights, freedom of speech for example but it has gone to far today in this society. What do we get when young people are not controlled by the police, teachers and parents, we get riots. Then we get a reduction of front line police officers the amount of teachers being recruited at a low and parents living off benefits because they believe it is stupid to work when the government will sort you out. Someone needs to shack this up there is a fine line between extreme and just right!
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Smacking is NOT I repeat NOT illegal. Why are so many simpletons unable to grasp this? If parents (or more often, parent) fail to exercise discipline then that is their fault and theirs alone. I’m not a fan of the Labour government but blaming them for evrything is just getting tiresome.
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Who else will be blamed for the riots? Just about anybody but the rioters themselves it seems. Most of the rioters are of an age to know right from wrong no matter what their upbringing – or lack of it. Mind you there is a paucity of decent role models around the world today for our children, from our leaders, through ‘celebs’, the media in general seeming to glorify the worst in humanity, great writings are less available because libraries are closing and children seem to have more problems reading English. And people in general are not expected to take any responsibility for themselves, although those with intelligence should be able to ……..
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