Add a subject, bin a subject

[noblegiraffe]

Lots of cries of 'why aren't they taught X at school, it's really important' with the response 'what would you like to see binned to make the time for that?'
I would like to add all aspects of managing finances - mortgages, credit, car finance, gambling, loans, costs associated with owning/renting a home, savings, investments, interest rates, the general economy. I know it's supposedly done a bit in PSHE, but I'd want it done properly. With homework and tests.

In order to make space for this I would bin: KS3 Drama.

You don't have to bin a whole subject, so for example you could bin the study of poetry in English, or anything involving circuits from science, but you can't bin the study of oxbow lakes from Geography and replace it with learning Latin - they should take about the same time.

evil wow, that is so depressing! Congrats on your new job, sounds absolutely amazing.

I don't want my sons to go to a school with no creative subjects

50andgoingstrong

The sad thing is that its the non core subjects that have to take time out from their curriculum to teach the pupils how to use excel, word, ppt.
And then core gets praise for the wonderful presentations that are done off the back of those of us that have learnt to programs.

(Rant)
Its even worse when the SLT lean on you to teach the core subjects how to use the bloody programs because they haven't got a clue.

There are a couple nearby butvthey are not particularly good whereas the dance ones are a similar type set up to what you describe. mostly respected dance schools running the course.

Dd's school runs the drama btec but it isn't state funded (the dance diploma has DaDa funding)

IVe just replied to Evil on the wrong thread!!!

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Kazzy your point is not valid for all schools. In "Tech" in her first term of year 7 my daughter has used the laser cutter to create a 3d wooden sculpture, designed and made a vaccuum packed stationary set and they are now working on building remote controlled cars. So I would be asking your son's school why they are not using the equipment they have with KS3.