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LETTER OF THE WEEK

STAND UP TO THE EYFS

I take issue with the letter by Beth Thomas (3 July), when she refers topress reports of childminders being frightened by the Early YearsFoundation Stage and comments, 'Those of us who are still standing aregiving our best efforts to embrace it'.

I believe she piously infers that the rest of us childminders who areopposed to the EYFS do so by either cowering under a table or by buryingour heads in the sand. On the contrary, it takes more guts to stand upand say no about something you don't believe in and/or don't feel isnecessary, than it does to follow, like sheep, every policy issued by aGovernment with a track record of regularly messing up our children'seducation.

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