Do you think schooling in current form will change

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Do you think the one size fits all style of schooling will change at some point in the future?

We don't have a one size fits all schooling system so I think your question is based on a false premise

Hopefully not to the point where school isn’t as much about socialisation and doing things a child would never usually do

We don't have a one size fits all schooling system so I think your question is based on a false premise
I came here to say that.
There are many different styles of educational establishments .

No

because how can it - realistically- you say it’s one size fits all - which it isn’t anyway. However what’s the opposite education bends to every student ?

Is that
a) setting kids up to be employable in a workplace that won’t always make amendments?
b) realistic and cost effective- you would need more teachers or aides to make this work? I can’t think of a government in the world that would allow reduce teacher to staff ratios that low

No if we keep pushing teachers to breaking points pupils will all be 'taught' by an AI tutor in a big hall facing a screen. So very much more one size fits all.

Will save government a fortune on salary and pensions.

I think Private schools will continue to evolve, and then maybe take some State schools with them... especially for Secondary children who struggle to cope in mainstream but don't really need a SEN setting. More Fkexi schooling, or mixed online/in person etc.

I believe if we were setting g up a State school system from scratch now it would look very different to the current format.

Yes, in some ways, not immediately but over time we'll likely have more devolution which will allow more local control. Then they'll be digital exams within 10 years, if not less than that, they'll be more of a focus on skills for the future, so using AI as a tool responsibly, but also having critical thinking skills. They'll likely be more oracy skills in the curriculum, a mix of different testing types.

In terms of things like SEND, depending on what routes we go down, I can imagine some of what the children's commissioner wrote in her report happening, more SEN training within PGCEs and hopefully an expansion of the AP schools, both like PRUs and also SEN schools.

What specifically do you mean by one size fits all though? Are you talking about exams, various post-16 and 18 routes, curriculums, the types of schools - MATs etc. As it can mean a lot of different things, and some will likely change but not all.

One size fits all as in pretty uniform hours, curriculum, holidays, a number of children moving on before understanding a topic (a number of others being told topic gets cemented by repetition if they’ve already mastered to a higher level), attending when unwell leading to higher hospitalisations etc.

Ever worked in a school OP? Just wondering.

We don’t have a one size fits all system now.

we have a system where most children for primary go to state mainstream but some go to state special school and some go to private schools of various flavours including Forest, Steiner etc etc.

then there’s alternative provision, homeschooling, and many other options.

Agree with much of this.

@frozendaisy Is that not what the Edutech companies are planning and preparing for.

1 teacher 'supervising' , 1 block bought educational provision which is 'personalised to each learner' - totally computerised system - assesses the learning, plans work, marks it, evaluates and reassesses.

I'm not sure whether they would prefer provision to be accessed from a home environment or a massive hall at school with hundreds of pupils in there and some invigilator style minimum wage staff to contain them.

It depends what timeframe you mean?

I dont think concept or delivery of "school' will change in any short to mid lenghth timescale.

I think roughly the same amount of funding will go to it (inflation adjusted) and despite there being religious schools, academies, maintained schools, etc they will largely deliver a gradually evolving national curriculum for that budget.

If we get taken over by robot overlords it might all change. We might focus on folklore, hairdressing and dance in that scenario.

or maybe - even cheaper, some humanoid robots to supervise

They would be great at 'grey rocking' - no, you cannot leave the educational area, no you cannot leave the educational area, - very consistent but probably not so good at compassion

The vast majority of children manage in schools as they are. The importance of life skills such as being on time, listening, doing things you don’t always want to do are important and schools have a key role here.

Parents have choice to access different types of provision. You can’t change a whole system because a minority of pupils can’t manage.

I'd love to change bit where you have to apply to uni with predicted grades not actaul grades - but if it was easy to do it would have been done already.

Also like it if it was possible to keep kids back a year or so when they struggled or got behind - as other systems manage to do - but that's also not an easy thing in our current system.

I do think there are options for many urban areas with multple schools - and you can home school still in UK so I don't think it is one size fits all.

What I think will happen is Wales and N.I will pull ever further away from English system - Scotland completely different - and eveyone will carry on with minor tweaks.

State schools are pretty much of one flavour though aren’t they? Go to school from roughly 845-315/330 and do x,y,z. Homeschool or that is a bit binary.

Is your main argument the hours that school is? If so can you elaborate