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A more likely reason for the decline in language skills is that children spend too much time with child-minders or at day nurseries, which offer a far inferior linguistic environment to any home, whether middle or working class. Government policy bizarrely aims to get mothers of pre-schoolers to work, leaving infants in these inferior settings.
Susan Godsland
3 Chester CloseExeter, Devon
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