Hello - hoping for honest advice here.
I had a pretty dire experience at school (primary and secondary) and learned very little, if anything really, until sixth form.
My impression of schools (NOT individuals within that school!) seems to be:
- governed by petty and inflexible rules, like children having to do homework regardless of what's happening in their personal life, uniform rules, and so on.
- focus on assessment rather than learning
- bullying rife
- children expected to put up with behaviour you just wouldn't take from an adult, screaming in faces and so on
- SEN dealt with by punishing the child for it
- children set as soon as they set foot in secondary schools
Now, as i've said - I haven't had very positive experiences myself so that colours this and I'm NOT talking about all or even most teachers, but what are schools really like now for the children who attend them?