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

Re: Oh pass me a bucket.......

[benicek.livejournal.com]

I applied for teacher training years ago and was interviewed by a college. They started asking me questions about government education policy and the effect it might have social problems experienced by kids living in poverty black spots. I told them that it was feeble tinkering, would have no effect of all and was a load of specious crap. That was the end of the interview. They rejected me. No mention at all of the subject I wanted to teach (history).

I knew quite a few teachers when I lived in Bristol. I sat in on some history lessons in a secondary school there too. It was just a form of riot control. In one lesson the young teacher tried lamely to force a class to pick up their pens for about 20 minutes, and then this huge boy started doing kung-fu moves on him with a broom handle, and that was the end of the lesson.

My impression was, basically, that teaching has become just a form of social work. That's what the public demand. They want all their family mental problems to be solved for them by the government, and the government is obliged to pretend that this is possible. State schools are now expected to deal with bullying, child abuse, sex education, drug addiction, childhood obesity....the list goes on, and all without recourse to violence, as was the norm until the 1960s. A desire to become a social worker has therefore become the main criteria for selecting trainee teachers. The job is badly paid and often physically dangerous. I can easily believe that report which the Daily Mail quoted. It's just the motives which they misrepresent. I'm sure there are Islamic ghettos in Britain where schoolkids are so anti-semitic that teaching the holocaust to them becomes too frightening a task to contemplate. Some teachers probably wriggle out of it not because they are kowtowing to some twisted politically correctness but because they are too scared to get involved. I wouldn't either.

Re: Oh pass me a bucket.......

[(Anonymous)]

The obsession with the Nazis is because the Nazis were fascist (far-right). That way the British educational establishment gets to demonize the entire right, and glorify the political left.

Re: Oh pass me a bucket.......

[benicek.livejournal.com]

If that was true why did they teach us so much about Stalin? The British educational establishment has been controlled by right-wing or centre-right governments since 1979.

Re: Oh pass me a bucket.......

[benicek.livejournal.com]

You're quoting Fox news at me? The Rupert Murdoch channel? Do you really expect me to take anything that guy publishes seriously? Not a chance.

Re: Oh pass me a bucket.......

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

That's about right. But you don't have Dewey over there.

Re: Oh pass me a bucket.......

[benicek.livejournal.com]

Decimal system Dewey?

Re: Oh pass me a bucket.......

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

The same he reformed American education--decided its purpsoe should be to keep factory workers effcient and docile. This was seen as an 'egalitarian' alternative to the three tier German sysytem (Gymnasium, Realschule, polytechnik)

Re: Oh pass me a bucket.......

[benicek.livejournal.com]

He sounds like Henry Ford.

Re: Oh pass me a bucket.......

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

just so.