Albert Cardona on Nostr: npub1uqtst…r3ees npub1g0tuf…3tvm4 Last night a retired UK state school teacher ...
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Last night a retired UK state school teacher was telling me, over her decades as a teacher she has seen the primary school curriculum narrow and shrink, nowadays it's all about math and testing, and barely little else. Because if the school kids do badly on the tests, a regulatory agency labels the school "unsatisfactory" and it's only downhill from there.
Too many kids per class, too narrow a focus on a few subjects, no emphasis on good.writing and eloquence and expressing oneself, lack of subjects that would develop critical thinking skills. Was grim to hear it from someone who was in it from Thatcher's time to now, witnessing the effects of continued funding cuts and the narrowing of the curriculum, pushing aside the humanities and focusing on skills that, presumably, make good, docile office workers.
#UK
Last night a retired UK state school teacher was telling me, over her decades as a teacher she has seen the primary school curriculum narrow and shrink, nowadays it's all about math and testing, and barely little else. Because if the school kids do badly on the tests, a regulatory agency labels the school "unsatisfactory" and it's only downhill from there.
Too many kids per class, too narrow a focus on a few subjects, no emphasis on good.writing and eloquence and expressing oneself, lack of subjects that would develop critical thinking skills. Was grim to hear it from someone who was in it from Thatcher's time to now, witnessing the effects of continued funding cuts and the narrowing of the curriculum, pushing aside the humanities and focusing on skills that, presumably, make good, docile office workers.
#UK