Rebel Education - tv3 on Sundays

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Did anyone see this? I think the school is incredibly brave to do this. Very interesting to see what Secondary school is like in 2025.

Did not even hear of it but will have a look for it later.

It looks very interesting. I'd say Carrigaline would be a fairly prosperous part of Cork. But still ....very brave and enterprising to consent to a fly on the wall documentary.

It's a reasonably well off area but there has been a massive amount of new houses built and the population has hugely increased in recent years.

They featured a story about a girl who struggled to go into school at all and who did a weeks work experience in TY in Penny Dinners (feeding the homeless)...and she was still volunteering with them in sixth year. I think it's great to hear stories like this one. School isn't for everyone but everyone is good at something.

Oh I hadn't come across this but will look for it, I loved Educating Yorkshire (think that's what it was called?

Am I the only one who doesn't like the idea of young people being exposed on TV like this?

I'm sure they've squared the legal consent thing, and presumably students who don't want to be on telly can remove themselves from lessons that are being filmed, but at that age I think my schoolmates would have split into total divas who would love it and would play up to the cameras, and shy awkward students like me who would rather shrivel up and die than appear on TV.
Not a good thing for either lot, the divas or the shrinking violets, or the poor teachers trying to manage a challenging age group, who are now also would-be reality stars
Whatever these students say or do will follow them around online for the rest of their lives.
I'm very glad that the kind of things we said and did at school were not captured for all eternity by a TV crew!

I am just glad it was not my kids school as they would have had to move. No way I would be allowing mine on something like that. You are right it will follow them. I still have not managed to watch it mind you.

I think it’s an awful idea and the principal looks like someone who just wants to be on telly. No way should this be allowed and I’d be like an anti christ if it were my child’s school.

I thought it was just me!
Another TV programme that bothers me is 'It takes a village', where problem kids with behaviour issues in their families - usually city kids - are sent to a farming family and have to give up their mobile phone, get up early, muck in [literally] with work around the farm..
As with the school programmes, the really unpleasant behaviour of the kids is on record for ever - everything up to and including serious bullying.

So far so reprehensible.

But I have to confess that the few episodes I've watched to the end have nearly made me cry. Taken out of their environment, out of the family dynamics, treated as welcome guests in their host families, succeeding at the tasks set to them, earning respect - and all without their phones - the kids seem to undergo a reset, and it is lovely to see them going home with hugs and smiles for their families.

In one case, the little so-and-so who had been seriously bullying his younger siblings not only had a hug for each of them, but a little present which he had bought out of the few quid he had earned by doing some special job.

Not a dry eye in the house

So on the one hand it is very uplifting because it shows that problems are often caused by dynamics, by families constantly butting heads day after day over the same issues, and change is possible.

On the other hand, will they be embarrassed when they are 20 and somebody finds all this on the internet?