Potty-training shaming – why blaming the parents is a political act | Zoe Williams

Demonising parents for not getting kids out of nappies is part of a wider class agenda at the heart of the austerity programme

Potty training is a parent’s job, according to Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, interviewed earlier this week. It’s such an uncontroversial statement – who could think otherwise? Even on a practical level, if you left it to a teacher, you’d run the risk of a child who was only potty-trained during school hours. Yet the statement fails a basic authenticity test: it does not mean what it appears to mean.

Related: Potty training gets messy. But I wouldn’t pay anyone else to do it | Fran Taylor

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