col8
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Probably the wrong thread but my impression is that the whole Brexit carry on has coarsened the fabric of British society.
I wish I knew what he said...
Probably the wrong thread but my impression is that the whole Brexit carry on has coarsened the fabric of British society.
Probably the wrong thread but my impression is that the whole Brexit carry on has coarsened the fabric of British society.
What did the Romans ever do for us then?
I read a report a while ago, then heard a verbal report saying almost the same thing not that long ago.
There are area's of this country where up to 50% of kids are leaving school, illiterate and innumerate.
That is scandulous in this day and age.
I was educated in the 1950's and very early 1960's and we had one kid who moved to our school, who would today be diagnosed as dyslexic. He was probably the most intelligent kid at school but, he suffered from numerous physical ailments, everything from having no bladder control, to extremely poor eyesight, to heart and lung problems.
When we realised he was having problems with recognising some letters, a few of us got together and tried to find out what it was he was seeing and to see if we could work out a way that he could see certain letters the way they really were.
We were beginning to have some success when he died suddenly in his sleep one night.
His parents came to thank us for working to try and make his school life easier and to let us know, that it made him so happy that people who were strangers, cared enough to try helping him, instead of making fun of him, as had happened at his previous schools.
The point I'm making isn't about the help we gave to a fellow student but, about the fact that it didn't take too long for a problem, a fellow student was having, to be recognised and the search for a solution to be started.
It makes me ask, what are teachers doing today that they either don't recognise when a student has a problem, or they just don't care enough to get that student some extra help.
Heck we knew our new classmate had health problems because, it was explained to us before he started and we were asked to take his problems into account and to cut him some slack.
We were not told about the dyslexia, hell no one had ever heard of the word in those days, we found that out for ourselves.
Today dyslexia is, I believe, over diagnosed and everyone and his cousins dog has heard of it.
As a teacher, I can tell you that if a kid is not getting the attention he/she needs, it's because there are too many kids in the class and the teacher has too much work on their plate. Since the 90s and Bliar, the political solution to education has been to blame the teachers and slash the budgets. The do-more-with-less mantra is nonsense and everyone knows it.
Public schools would laugh at the idea of cutting their fees because it's laughably ridiculous to think that a school is going to get better results with less funding.
Education is expensive and providing a decent education to every child in Britain is very expensive but if you want to live in a decent, civilised country, it's a price you should be willing to pay.
Sad to say BB, the number of good teachers in the job is diminishing year on year.
Political interferrence in the education profession started in 1964 and has happened every year since, until now a teacher has no time to teach, they have become nothing but glorified clerks, writing reports in triplicate that nobody but the bean counters read.
Unfortunately there are a growing number in the profession who are only in it for the pension and/or the kudos of being able to say they are teachers, people who don't give a fig for the kids future's.
The powers that be have finally got their way, they now have an under-educated populace and that makes it a lot easier to control and misdirect, even turning them against each other, with pseudo-logic that says, this week it's group 'A' thats at fault for all your wrongs. Then next week it'll be group 'B' thats at fault and so on.
Yes BB, I'm afraid this country is becoming less and less civillised by the year.
Look at the crime stats if you need convincing, we now have more knife crime than that most uncivillised country the USA.
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