Education?
I was in Florida when the elections were held last year and I destinctly remember my American friends whooping with delight over the 'Good Old British' elections as they were televised over there. I am sorry to have to say it, but when the final results came in - my blood definately felt several degrees cooler. Labour was in, and it seems, one year on, to be: "with a vengeance". As I work in one of the 250 odd 'Applied Scholastics Schools', only two of which are here in the UK; I have watched a lot of the media comments on the education system that we currently offer the majority of our population. My job is to enrol new students, and I have found that in the private sector of education, the field is very competative. I do not do my job for money, like the teachers I have encountered in many schools, I do it for love. Teachers seem to get the brunt of the most slanderous remarks possible. From the Government they are told they take too much money and the standards are forever getting lower, they do not tell you about the agencies that run the standards of examinations of course. From parents they are jibed at as 'little Johnnie' isn't getting enough sport or the children themselves throw so much 'attitude' that within 5 years, guaranteed in schools where the classes exceed 30 pupils (!) - they are worn down by it all and end up. They ultimately started their careers with the 'nobliest of intentions', most of them anyway, I still remember that geography teacher and he could never have been noble about anything, ever... But to give the benefit of the doubt - teachers do have an incredibly difficult job nowadays and WE need to get to grips with what exactly is the 'bug'. There is little documentation in the media forms, about the influence of television and computer games on children and education. But both as a a parent and registrar in a school - I have seldom met a child that has not been influenced by the fact of this medium being, so ever readily available to them. The main difference with Applied Scholastics schools, is that they teach a student, or young child, exactly HOW to study. Whilst we are so interested in this subject as a nation and parents, can any of us truely expect 'little Annie' to learn - if she has never been shown WHAT it is that blocks her progress? Or how precisely to handle it? And believe me, it can so easily be remedied! I leave it to your judgement, either the standards of education continue to decline, or we take a serious look at our methods.Conversations
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