I'm interested to hear people's thoughts on whether you think standards and achievement in primary school was higher, 'back in our day?' I went through primary education from the mid 80s to early 90s.
I wonder if teachers today have a range of more complex issues to deal with, that leads to lower overall progress in their classes?
Were the expected standards higher in the past? I was a bright child and I'm sure I achieved a 6 in Maths (though that could be my memory failing me!).
In what ways has the curriculum been dumbed down in the past 20 years? Are there things children used to get taught which they don't anymore?
To counter this, are teachers overall better qualified and better? Some of the teachers I had back in the day were shocking!
None of this to cause offence, just some random waffling on my part to see what others think?
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starfish8 · 16/02/2016 21:15
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