If parents do not want their chidren to be better than what they are, and that’s only possible through education, then they are not fit to be parents. Social services should remove these children from such an environment.

Yet, this governemnt chooses to “pay” these type of people, thus making it acceptable, even profitable to not sending children to school in the first place!

So now we will be having state financed parasites up to the age of 23. Labour always exalted and encouraged dependency in order to keep people under control.

That’s it, they’ve given up. On our way to the Scandinavian model, where people never work, preferring to call themselves environmentalists pedalling bicycles instead.

Dunno, but this whole emphasis on social justice, and the president as one who’ll work with government on laws to implement some ‘egalitarian’ utopia should set some alarms ringing.

Coleiro Preca will have the power to override all court cases where expropriation, rent laws and any other manifestation of social justice prevailed over the rights of owners.

If she’s willing to sponsor children until the age I was in my third year at university, what holds her from issuing mass presidential decrees in favour of the ‘working’ class?

That’s nothing incredible – no praise or admiration, please – it’s just what you DO to take care of your own affairs! But now I’m expected to subsidize, from my taxes; cars, cigarettes, tattoos, nights out in PV and definitely a number of kids with an ‘unknown father’ for this lot?

Not if you are Labour, my friend. Their pension stretches for miles and spreads margarine over Maltese loaf slices.

In very civilised European cultures located at its very heart, where education is taken seriously and where technical or professional specialisation is determined as a more gradual exploratory process beginning at 14, youth effectively begin leaving home to board in considerable numbers at this age.

The main difference in Educational structure being a three-year “sixth form” not a two-year one, and where all main subjects continue till the end of that three-year period that includes two foreign languages and a culture-based option no matter the direction opted for in the main tracks.

14 is also the age that coincides with when that youth is able to obtain a permit to drive a certain range of vehicles with a motor,

13 would be the age that political concepts, legal fundamentals, rights, duties and obligations as a citizen are explained, analysed and discussed. Testing is rigorous and based on knowledge, application, grammar and expression equally.

No swank attached to the boarding affordable by all, just a healthy measure of focus and effectiveness.

Field trips to other countries are organised with planning and budgeting planned well in advance at an affordable pace of 10 euro per month. Many children are motivated to find ways of presenting and developing their own little earnings to fund this.

Children prepared for adulthood, not the eternal child whose vote Labour in Malta is determined to buy using State funds.