Friday, 5 November, 2004

Ogilvy renews call on character education

Character education is a glaring omission from the Government initiative announced today to combat severely challenging behaviour in children, United Future education spokesmen Bernie Ogilvy said today.

"Today's initiative reinforces the Government's philosophy of an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. What United Future advocates is the fence at the top of the cliff through character education in schools.

"It's great to see the involvement of parents, teachers and children's peers in this initiative and even better to see Labour's acknowledgement that research shows that this involvement is the most effective response to bring about better behaviour.

United Future whole-heartedly endorses character education in schools because it begins with the premise that only with the involvement of families, teachers and support groups can we create responsible, trustworthy and caring individual and subsequent healthy communities, Mr Ogilvy said.

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