Avoiding responsibility, refusing to trust one another and pandering to teenage fancies characterise the outlook of teachers and parents within education today. With little direction or drive children and young people are offered less an education and more a limited outlook on their lives and the world around them in our schools today.

Folly on the end of a phone from the TES 12/12/2003
The recent suggestion by Jack McConnell for expanding vocational training in secondary schools (TESS November 7) offers further opportunities for those seeking to degrade the curriculum and reduce prospects for pupils, says Stuart Baird

Chatroom cop-outs from the TES 10/10/2003
With Microsoft's decision to shut its online meeting sites discussion of child safety really has left the real world behind, says Stuart Baird.

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stuart.baird@generationyouthissues.org.uk