Schools: Climate Change Strike Debate
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Viscount Ridley
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Schools: Climate Change Strike
Viscount Ridley Excerpts(5 years, 9 months ago)
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Lord Agnew of Oulton
My noble friend asks a very valid question, and it is one that I have asked. Children have 15 weeks of holidays and half-terms in which to demonstrate without incurring disruption and extra workloads for their teachers. An average primary school lesson costs £1,600 and a secondary school lesson about £1,900, so school is where they should be.
Viscount Ridley (Con)
My Lords, why do we not encourage children to strike every Friday—about terrorism next week, about overfishing of the oceans the week after and about social media the week after that? It would make the Government very popular if we gave children an extra day off school every week.
Lord Agnew of Oulton
As keen as I am to make our Government popular, that is not a route that I advocate.