Does anyone ever feel cheesed off with the "one size fits all" education here?
We've changed primary school a couple of times (we moved city and then came back) and I feel so disillusioned with mainstream education.
My children are NT, reasonably bright, nice kids, but they don't find school especially inspiring and I find the curriculum to be dull, with only the barest gesture towards languages or art (although music is good). They enjoy seeing their friends. That's about it.
I have thought about home education but apart from not really wanting to jerk them about again with another change, that's not really the point - my point is that I don't like that there is one standard style of schooling, which everybody is expected to roll in with, while schools are squeezed to death financially by cuts, and other countries do things differently with demonstrably better results. But we slog along with the longest school year in Europe, less and less cash, dull and homogeneous curricula and not great attainment.
I feel that private secondary might be the answer for my kids when the time comes, and my city has one or two good small schools that fit the bill, but like home ed, I feel that I shouldn't have to - the state should provide the range of choice and high standard for all kids, not just the few who can afford private.
I don't know what I want to achieve with this thread. I'm just feeling grumpy about it.
(I also wish there was a Steiner school in my city - I wish we had CHOICES).
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Lack of choice in STYLE of education
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astoundedgoat · 30/11/2018 09:36
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