to want to know WHO DOES CHOOSE what goes onto the curriculum at schools?

[marchbirthday]

Following on from the great SHOULD WE LABEL THE BEETROOT to warn of red pees and twos, how can anyone (on MN) or elsewhere in UK make suggestions for the national curriculum. Some of the stuff is so boring, and so much essential info missing. Should we have a new MN heading: Topics to be added to the National Curriculum ?

Interesting... what would you add or take away?

Ahh, well apart from the "YOU ARE WHAT U EAT", I'm definitely addicted to the brown fizzy alcohol free liquid that everyone is saying is cancerous - (see how I neatly avoided a libel case or product naming). I'm addicted to it, and choco biscuits full of that really bad fat: CMG or something. I definitely wish me and mine were offered some facts on that.. but my big RANT would be:

STRESS MANAGEMENT for teenagers, and mums and everyone. Alternatives to turning to drink or drugs when they fail exams, get dumped, bullied etc. Some posh schools have been doing this for
years. ... and I've got other ideas, which mostly involve taping teenagers conversations and playing the verbal venom back at them - I think I could come up with a lesson plan for that one, but I not a traditional teacher - so no one ever asks.

Funny this because i actully think the words 'stress' and 'stressed' are over used!

I hubby recently left work because of 'stress' when in actul fact he left because his boss was rubbish and he didn't know how to tell him.

I think a key thing to add would be feedback! how to give it, how to receive it, how to encourage other people to give it to you, and how to cope with people who won't change for the greater good.

I think that teenagers feel a certain amount of pressure, and strain but not stress. that's a whole other league.

So, I'd add the thing I think are lacking not just from our youth but from society as a whole.

Feedback
Common sense
Maturity
Dignity (i.e. what you look like when you binge drink)
Responsibility
Forward thinking (i.e. this tattoo looks great now but what will it look like when i'm 30 and i'd have 3 kids)

Rant over... the best bit about all that is I can say it without being classed as a boring old fart just yet as i'm only 25 myself!

Cheshire cat, yep great: FEEDBACK, how to EVALUATE would be brilliant.... The world I'm working in picks up the pieces when the kids don't have any of the role models who have experience of any of life skills on your list.

*How to read the Small Print

*Financial Maths - How to Not Get Shafted by a Mortgage or Other Lender

*Probability theory - If you but a house on a flood plain, and there is a 1 in 500 chance it will be flooded, that doesn't mean it won't happen for 500 years.

*The Sale of Goods Act 1979 - And how to use it.

*Media Manipulation, Spin and Advertising - Awareness & Counter-measures

How to spot a total fckwit - Training in providing a quick and painful release for people who use the word 'synergies' without irony, people who talk too loud in the cinema, and shameless narciscists.