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Add a subject, bin a subject

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noblegiraffe · 28/01/2018 20:40

Lots of cries of 'why aren't they taught X at school, it's really important' with the response 'what would you like to see binned to make the time for that?'
I would like to add all aspects of managing finances - mortgages, credit, car finance, gambling, loans, costs associated with owning/renting a home, savings, investments, interest rates, the general economy. I know it's supposedly done a bit in PSHE, but I'd want it done properly. With homework and tests.

In order to make space for this I would bin: KS3 Drama.

You don't have to bin a whole subject, so for example you could bin the study of poetry in English, or anything involving circuits from science, but you can't bin the study of oxbow lakes from Geography and replace it with learning Latin - they should take about the same time.

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MsAwesomeDragon · 28/01/2018 20:58

I'd definitely agree with adding the finance stuff.

I'd also like to see some proper life skills, like making meals you can feed a family with, household maintenance, family budgeting, etc. And to make time for that I'm ditching food tech as it is currently (or at least how it is in my school and dd1's school), where the bake and decorate cupcakes, or bake bread rolls (most adults I know don't bake their own bread, it's only 50p to buy a pack of them in the shop!)

MaisyPops · 28/01/2018 20:50

I would like to add all aspects of managing finances - mortgages, credit, car finance, gambling, loans, costs associated with owning/renting a home, savings, investments, interest rates, the general economy
Agree. Can I kick the endless going over of 'don't bully' we have to do EVERY year. Then a special session on whatever type of bullying has been in the news so this year there was a big thing about trans bullying. Kids know not to bully. They don't need hour long PSHE lessons to tell them that.

But I would also like to have a ban on 'here is some survey'and then parents saying 'Put it into schools'. Some parents get awfully twitchy about us having a healthy eating policy because it's patronising and stabding on their toes but all sorts of life stuff they can't be arsed with, put it in schools obviously.

I'd like to cut analysing 19th century non fiction from the English Language GCSE spec. In fact, I would scrap the entire non fiction reading section and would replace it with spoken language where students would learn the craft of speaking well abd they'd study rhetoric and speeches over time.

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noblegiraffe · 28/01/2018 20:44

You've freed up a lot of time by binning all three, what would you like to add on top of finance, fruitloop?

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SweepTheHalls · 28/01/2018 20:44

Add in touch typing
Get rid of having to learn equations, poems etc. Be allowed formula sheets and books in exams as grown ups look stuff up.

Fruitloopcowabunga · 28/01/2018 20:43

Sorry, posted too soon - I would bin all those.Agree with your suggestion.

Fruitloopcowabunga · 28/01/2018 20:42

Art, textiles, drama!

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