British Schools

[porphyry]

"The researchers also warned that a lack of subject knowledge among teachers - particularly at primary level - was leading to history being taught in a 'shallow way leading to routine and superficial learning'.

Lessons in difficult topics were too often 'bland, simplistic and unproblematic' and bored pupils."


Does this surprise anyone?


If you want to become physically ill, read this this.

It details how schools teachers in Britain are beginning to skip the Holocaust so as not to offend the delicate sensabilities of their Moslem students who deny any Jews were murderd by the Nazis.

Comments

[stefanie-bean.livejournal.com]

That's incredible. Isn't it France where you can actually get locked up for denying the Holocaust?

In the US, the kids are lucky if they even make it to "bland and simplistic." I have a friend who's a 7th grade teacher, and they're being pressured to skip history altogether in favor of standardized test preparation.

[ladyprufrock.livejournal.com]

This sounds sadly familiar to one who has been inside one of those god-awful places within the last decade.

When I was in high school, the "earth science" teacher took my class on a "field trip" to the downtown movie theater to view Twister. For Spanish class, the field trip was to Evita. We watched John Wayne movies in history class. My only memories of psychology class are watching movies, which included Flowers for Algernon and Tootsie.

It gets better. In a college business class (graduate level!) I was forced to watch the atrocious Erin Brockovich.

[benicek.livejournal.com]

You can get locked up for denying the holocaust in several European countries, including Germany of course. But not in Britain.