Schools failing our children under a barrage of political correctness and political meddling?

Question

As much as 1 in 5 kids in the UK leave school being functionally illiterate. I see it everyday in my office. Supposed university graduates are not able to punctuate, construct sentences properly or even spell.

The old education system had absolutely nothing wrong with it. Teaching kids to count, read and develop problem solving skills was not a bad thing. What we have now is a broader curriculum which allows schoolkids to body-swerve anything percieved as too difficult (I would have at that age too).

Kids are lumped together in large "non-competitive" and "inclusive groups of all abilities" resulting in those at the top and bottom of the ability scale suffering. Excelling in anything, especially sport is actively discouraged as it would make other kids feel left out. Teachers are being put under un-ncecessary pressure by goverment ministers changing ideas like fashion trends despite themselves having no background in education.

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Answer 1

It's failing children and it's failing the whole country/countries. When the current generation of children grows up, we'll have a world full of grunting, hissing, txt-talking, illiterate, aggressive people. I used to teach in secondary schools and was discouraged from correcting spellings and grammar because it "only counted for 1% of their exam results". I had the headmaster pressing himself up against the window of the classroom making faces so that the students would laugh at me, and he would come into the room and undermine me in front of them. Some of the children acted like gorillas and I wasn't allowed to do anything even if they had attacked me - I was only supposed to press a "help" button which worked about 10% of the time. Some of the children were later moved on to what I was told was a kind of "prison" school because they were so badly behaved.
So yes, education is suffering, and teachers like me are abandoning ship, because we'd prefer to have lower pay and less pension security than to be afraid for our personal safety in a classroom.
And letting the parents dictate what happens in a school is madness. All I used to get from parents was "My daughter doesn't do detention" and "How dare you give detention to my son".

Answer 2

Wow, sounds like a production line.
Are they lining them up like little soldiers too?
That’s all they really are; at least that is what they are doing over here on this side of the puddle.

In the first grade readers some of the stories are alienating children from their parents, well at least making them feel alienated and emotionally confused. It's a sad state of affairs where only the rich will be smart and those who can't afford a collage education... well they can join the army and then the goverment will pay for their collage; if they make it that far.

Answer 3

I think that proof positive is to be seen on this site. The standard of spelling and the ability to string a sentence together is both appalling and tragic. I doubt whether all these kids are stupid but they have been so badly taught they are semi literate to say the least. The amount of pure spite directed towards the Americans, the Germans and the Royal Family (because 'they are all Germans') is very disturbing in that this aggression is at one with the perceived aggressors. We seem to be regressing in that religion is cast aside in favour of new age beliefs (they believed in this sort of thing thousands of years ago.
Violence in speech and action rules. It frightens me far mor than Al Queda.

Answer 4

the school system has become a complete joke,but a bad one, there is no respect, the teachers are not allowed to even verbally discipline the children any more without fear of revenge attacks.

the children have all the power and they know it.

the kids today seem to have no interest in education or anything else that will benefit them,

the sports day thing is true and ,it is so totally stupid that the competition spirit is been knocked out of them, i attended a family members sports day and they were not allowed to cheer if their team won,in case the other teams got upset - its true

Answer 5

I totally agree, I work in an office and certainly, the younger staff we have taken on can't string a sentence together, speak properly, spell correctly or even draft the most basic of letters. To make matters worse, not being able to use their mobile phone, make personal phone calls during work time and having to do a hard days work are seen as an afront to their human rights. Needless to say, they don't stay the course. Of course, they are never to blame - it is always someone elses fault!

Answer 6

What is it you want us to answer?
If it's that the education in this county is now down the crapper, then yes it is, and it is for that reason that I moved to Uruguay, which, despite being south American and third world, has one of the best educations in the world, with a 98 percent literacy level, and so making sure that my future is brighter that most Brits my age.

Answer 7

I agree with you entirely. I would also like to add that Standardized Tests of a way of grading teachers is bad. This makes the teachers not care about a student once that student is good enough to pass the test.

Answer 8

Nonsense on all 3 counts. Freedom of speech skill being allowed to assert what you like in all equity, no longer having human beings trust something you're saying, or no longer having anybody ever be indignant with tips from something you're saying. it is not any form of authoritarian administration to, dunno, no longer opt to hearken to racist jokes. in case you have been imprisoned for it with tips from the government, you will have a component. i do no longer understand Ruth Perry, yet does no longer have confidence her or Wikipedia to be authoritative in this component. I bear in mind the unconventional left interior the Sixties, and not purely did we no longer use the term "political correctness", yet once you hear to previous speeches with tips from those radicals, you will wince at their political incorrectness. The term got here into common use many years later.