Siblings Should Go To The Same School, According To The Parents

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Brothers and sisters are like two opposite sides of a coin. Being siblings does not mean being hindered to be educated at the same school. It is important that the education of them should be aimed and not them studying in different schools.

Such a fact has been identified in the UK as the ministers of the country have been urging to the government in order to allow the siblings to study at the the same school. It is witnessed that this problem is prominent in the Edinburgh primary school.

 The Minister's Move

The school minister of the country Nick Gibb said that he is willing to offer the siblings of England and Wales an automatic right, with the help of which they can attend the same state school. He will target to give it even if the number of the sits are over subscribed.

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The parents at Towerbank primary are facing the situation to send their children to different pre-schools from their brothers and sisters. They also believe that a national policy should exist regarding this.

Even the population has risen in the area. It prompts a review leading to the catchment being reduced.

Over 500 people have petitioned calling on the Edinburgh city council to allow a 'sibling guarantee'. The SNP; MSP and MPs are urged by the campaigners to support an approach, uniform in nature, throughout the whole country.

The Leaders In Action

Where Aberdeenshire Council guarantees the non-split up of the siblings, Portobello only accepts one of the four options under consideration of the councilors for the siblings to be admitted at the same school.

Parents have already been to the former justice minister, Kenny MacAskill and has also been backed by Tommy Sheppard, MP who wrote to the education convener of the city, Cllr Paul Godzick.

According to Mr. Sheppard, the guarantee’s absence was 'nonsensical'. He says “It will be a logistical nightmare for parents and is bound to have an adverse effect on both the education of their children. No matter which option the council goes with, a sibling guarantee must form part of it. Indeed, this should be the starting point for any redrawing of school catchment areas.”

The Guardian's View 

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Morven Wraight, whose son is attending a school and daughter who can be sent to other school, is thinking that the splitting siblings is in contradiction with the rule of the Scottish Government Getting It Right For Every Child or Girfec strategy. She says “Without this guarantee parents face having to drop one young child at one school and travelling at least one and a half miles across busy main roads to a second school. There has been a whole push to send your child to the local school. We did send our child to the local school and now it could be changed so that his sister can’t go to that school. There is just a general belief among parents that kids have the right to be together.”

The education minister Angela Constance, has received a letter from Mr. MacAskill asking for the position of the Scottish government.

A spokesperson of the Scottish government said it is the council's duty to decide “how best to provide educational provision that meets local needs”.

Education For The Brothers & Sisters

It is true that education is a gift and it should not be limited in the choice of not letting the siblings to study at the same school. It is a notion, if left unconsidered, will produce no such harm. So, it is better not to educate the brothers; not to educate the isters but to educate both the brothers and sisters in the same state school.

Music Education - Can It Turn Children Into Good Listeners & Learners

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Today we can frequently see most students hooked on to their headphones while commuting to schools and colleges or even in their leisure time. This clearly proves a fact that, music has become an integral part of our lives with instant and easy access to the latest tracks view our smartphones and iPods. There is no doubt that music impacts our energy levels and our emotions. It helps us to create various moods and memories and enables us to focus and relax as well. But can we use music in our classrooms to help our students learn better? Let's take a look....

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The Old Way

Classical music may appear boring sometimes to the modern children but it is the healthiest food for the mind. Practising it harder and harder actually can take a learner to different levels which are not only satisfactory from its appearance but are also professional. For example, the learners need to concentrate throughout a concert that enables them to identify both the perfect music or its variation which may prove efficient.

The Musical Way

Music is responsible for the child to be psychologically patient. It has the ability to turn a child from a naughty shouter to a calm listener. Music improves the smartness of the child; makes him/ her stand apart from the others and perform something exceptional and even turns them to a deeper realisation of his/ her own self.

Author Philip Pullman said about music that it is an efficient and required subject. He also comments that music is one of the ‘the most emotionally and intellectually fulfilling’ activity that a child performs.

The Educational Benefits Of Music

The listening skills; non-verbal communicational skills; a stronger understanding of emotion; focusing or concentration; teamwork and many other things are the educational qualities of music. Teachers as well as the parents are getting encouraged by it and its result is the musical projects. Let’s look at the qualities of education, that music provides with:

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• Listening Power:

Listening skills is one of the powerful impacts of music. It soothes the mind of the learners; makes them patient and improve their audible as well as psychological acceptability.

• Character Formation:

Music has a strong impact on the building of the character of a child, shaping it in a way that this ‘musical’ effect is always comprehended as a positive feature of the child even in the matured stages.

• Do more:

‘To go beyond’ is another slogan of music when it comes to education. It helps to the psychological expansion of a candidate. A learner also becomes more expressive with music in his/ her side.

• Competitive mind:

What about competition? The answer is music also increases the competitive attitude of the learners that results better in both education and life.

How Educators Can Enhance With Music?

• Build a positive state for learning
• Establish an ideal atmosphere
• Create a sense of expectancy & anticipation
• Make learning activities more invigorating & involving
• Alter brain wave states
• Improve focus & concentration in learners

Musically Enriched

The aim should be obvious. Music should never be treated as a commercial object and should be accepted with deep realisation and sincere respect. Children are the future of the society and their ineffective education means the disastrous condition of the country that is yet to come. One of the ways to recover from such catastrophic problem is to implement music as one of the integral elements supporting the base foundation of education.

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Getting Rich In America Depends On A Lot More Than A College Degree

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Getting educated is not the only factor in getting wealthy. It is traditionally believed that education will make one knowledgeable and skilled enough to get a job and excel through ranks, to achieve financial success. But, practically, if the demand is not at par with supply (i.e., if there are too many applicants for fewer posts), then getting a job in accordance with qualification becomes an unrealistic dream. Pragmatically speaking, the job market has to be there and, jobs and posts have to be created to employ many people of the same training and skill.

Traditional education and entrepreneurship

Traditional education, making a typical stereotypical practitioner of some specialization out of a person, was never good enough in making a successful entrepreneur. A person, who has creativity, innovation, originality and novel insightful assimilation, takes wise, intelligent and effective decisions that will always keep him special one, steps ahead & unreachable for the typical commoner.

Contradiction

Still the belief that education helps in wise financial decision-making in building a lucrative career, is taking the obvious and counter-intuitive hit from emerging facts in modern research that were previously carefully hidden, deliberately, behind some wishful popular utopic idea. In a recent research by researchers William Emmons and Bryan Noeth of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, it is shown that the family background, inheritance of wealth (if there is any) and factors emerging out of the accident of birth of the individual, play a crucial role in the upcoming financial accomplishment in life. Education "is important, but it's not the whole story," says Emmons, a senior economic adviser at the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank. Family background factors, like : the class the person belongs to, the income of the parents, the educational environment of home- all play decisive roles in this inherently divisive class-based society.

Not all factors are in hand, when a first-generation learner goes to the school without any domestic help or environment for education in home, for example.

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 Racial disparity

Certain racial groups lag behind others in educational and consecutively subsequent financial achievements, due to socio-economic factors.

Hard fate for non-graduates 

In a country like US, where the government acts strong in enrolling maximum number of people in graduate courses, those who lag behind in getting a college degree suffer further in life in pursuit of a well-to-do status. An interesting piece of statistics says : the odds of becoming millionaires for a family headed by someone 40 or older without a high school diploma were 1 in 110 in 2013, compared to 1 in 2.6 for a family headed by someone with a graduate or professional degree.

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Gender difference in earning 

Gender difference plays a role as well, as women are doing better than their male counter-parts in every level of education. However, unfortunately they are not getting paid salaries matching their male colleagues, keeping them away from full participation in economic growth.

All in all, evidently enough, education is losing its determining status in achieving financial success, in social consciousness following practical facts of the reality in ground.

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