Does school adequately prepare children for their future?

We speak to people in Birmingham

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00:00 Yeah, I think school doesn't really prepare children for real life because they're not

00:05 talking about real life experiences. I mean I've worked in the education system for over

00:09 15 years and I do find even when we get students coming to university, they're just not ready

00:15 for it. So if they're not ready for it, how are the youngsters going to be ready for it?

00:19 I mean it's great teaching them maths, English, all the science skills and all that kind of

00:22 thing but they should be talking more practical stuff around, you know, how to do cash flows,

00:28 how to run businesses, how to work with people.

00:31 Yes, in some ways but if you've got to give some of the trouble is to the parents. If

00:36 the parents don't prepare the children properly, you've got what the school's supposed to do.

00:40 I do think it's important that before they start school, they should read in. My son

00:47 always had books and I think reading, reading to your children and sort of taking them out

00:54 and telling them things, I think that's a good idea.

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