What in your opinion is wrong with our education system..?

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And what would you like to see done to correct it?

But that assumption is also disrespectful to the other three nations in the union. And it shows lack of awareness of the UK education systems.

Abolish uniforms. Plenty of countries don't need them. If you need them, at least abolish uniform rules. What a load of nonsense.

I would allow schools to select by behaviour. Three strikes and you are expelled. Two expulsions and off you go to a school specialising in SEN (if you have SEN) or in bad behaviour (if you are just badly behaved).

=> Establish and properly fund SEN schools and schools specialising in bad behaviour.

Finally, I would make vocational education mandatory for ALL pupils. People think of academic and vocational as a dichotomy. In my opinion this is false. The focus and attention to detail needed to do well in any type of skill is very similar. I think I would have been very good at both. Plus: A BTEC in Construction teaches very useful DIY skills, a BTEC in childcare very useful parenting skills, a certificate in cookery very useful life skills, etc. These skills are for everyone, not just the "non-academic". I would have ALL pupils choose six academic subjects and three vocational ones for GCSE...

=> Fund vocational subjects properly and teach them to a very high standard.

I think I’d have final marks at the end of year 11 be worked out from a mean of end of term marks for every term in year 7-11, although weighted so the years counted for increasingly large percentages (maybe 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%). Then there would be incentive to work consistently but the weighting would keep it worthwhile not to just give up if you had a bad few terms. Each slice could be reduced a few percentage to have an additional individual project or exam in year 11 if that was felt to still be important. If doing this I’d probably not drop subjects in year 10 and have it more like a baccalaureate.

Our education system needs to deliver the people we need for a thriving society. We dont have enough trades to build the homes that are needed. We dont have enough inventors and entrepreneurs to invent useful stuff and sell it to fund the thins we all want. We have too many people relying on the state rather than working. The system has failed us and tweaks will not solve the underlying problems.

Improvement needs to start with teacher training - much more use of AI to deliver lessons, less teachers thinking they are some sort of god and promoting ideology in the classroom. Teachers can focus on the child's welfare not lesson plans.