Homework club receives cash boost to aid learning (From Watford Observer)
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Leavesden Green Youth Club receives cash boost to aid learning
10:25am Tuesday 12th February 2013 in News
By Mike Wright, Chief Reporter
A Leavesden youth club that helps children with homework has been awarded a £2,400 council grant.
Leavesden Green Youth Club has been given the cash to fund the cost of learning materials and a qualified teacher so that children can attend to do some extra studying.
The club helps students aged between six and 17 to access facilities including computers which some do not have at home.
The money has come from the county’s locality budget scheme.
Comments(6)
garston tony
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12:47pm Tue 12 Feb 13
LSC
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1:40pm Tue 12 Feb 13
But pre-computer days (ie mine) homework was an excellent way for the teachers to grasp how a child was really progressing in a subject. It was easy to fade into the surroundings in the actual classes, but homework showed whether you'd actually taken anything in.
In this cut and paste world of today, I wonder if homework is of any great use at all.
MarsLander
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10:42am Wed 13 Feb 13
garston tony wrote:Of course there is criteria, but it's still down to the whim of the councillor at the end of the day. That's why the strategy for these grants is so flawed and it is just legalised bribery of the electorate with their own money.
it isnt on a whim, there is a criteria
garston tony
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12:21pm Fri 15 Feb 13
MarsLander wrote:If people dont like where the councillers have given the money to then they can raise that issue with them or better yet not vote for them later on.
garston tony wrote: it isnt on a whim, there is a criteriaOf course there is criteria, but it's still down to the whim of the councillor at the end of the day. That's why the strategy for these grants is so flawed and it is just legalised bribery of the electorate with their own money.
If where they have given the money is going to give them votes then by definition its being given to a popular place/cause isnt it.
Why people have to moan when something positive is happening in communities is a wonder that will never cease
MarsLander
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4:30pm Fri 15 Feb 13
legally I am not allowed to vote in 77 elections. As such, my only real recourse is to point out the error of the councillors ways so that others may vote with greater knowledge of the facts.
MarsLander says...
10:37am Tue 12 Feb 13
When will the county council be rolling this out to EVERY child in Hertfordshire?
Why this one club? That's why these grants are so unfair and should be stopped and ALL children treated equally.
Is it fair that the council has given tax-money given by every taxpayer in Hertfordshire to just one club?
How will you feel if a child from this homework club gets the extra tuition that puts him/her above your child in the race to get the best school places?
Herts CC, treat our children fairly, it's all or none, not just some.
These local bribery grants must be stopped and the council must take a grown-up attitude towards spending our tax money. If they won't, they must be replaced by councillors that will.
Locality grants, dished out at the whim of councillors, must be stopped.
I do however commend this councillor for, at least in this instance, choosing something worthwhile to spend the money on.