Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-12-01-Speech-4-315-500"
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"en.20111201.35.4-315-500"2
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"When Margaret Thatcher became British Prime Minister in 1979, she instructed the Department for Education to send no more than one circular (set of instructions) to schools and colleges each year. Now our educational establishments are bombarded with proposals and recommendations on almost a daily basis. As a school governor and a former local councillor, I know that we should not be telling our schools what to teach, how to teach or what targets to achieve. I certainly don’t believe that this is a job for the European Union, which is why I voted against this report. The report also includes recommendations which are idealistic, impractical and verging on the irrational. If, as the report suggests, EU Member States are to provide financial support to parents who ‘devote time and love to bringing up young children’, the next obvious step would be the establishment of an EU love police to check that all European children are receiving the necessary Brussels-sanctioned quota of affection. The report also calls for the ‘special relationship between parents and children’ to be strengthened. Is this really an area which requires EU legislation? I think not."@en1
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