Open Eye letter to the Times newspaper

[sarah707]

Here is the most recent letter from the Open Eye campaigners against eyfs, to The Times.

It is signed by some pretty impressive people -

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article4385896.ece

And here is the reply from the Children's Minister, Beverley Hughes -

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article4424734.ece

This comment by a reader made me giggle! :D

The government's experts have designed the best tractor and so every production facility must make tractors to this design.

This will avoid wasteful investment in new and competing ideas and do away with tiresome choice that so annoyed tractor buyers. Now they are all assured an excellent product.

[Mollymop]

I agree with this statement

Parents should have the right to choose how their pre-school children are cared for and educated. Young children should also have the right to be protected from an imposed system which harnesses their development to prescribed targets, and which may well force them into inappropriate early learning
I feel though, that the EYFS is not as bad for children as these people make out.