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Jamie's Dream School

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londonone · 02/03/2011 21:15

20 in a class
No curriculum
TV Cameras

And they still piss around! Maybe people will start to get a real idea about how perhaps some of the students are in fact not vitims but the architects of their own downfall!

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Petalouda · 02/03/2011 21:45

Nice to see a lad accepting responsibility. Sadly this is part of growing up, and the children we teach can't do that yet. But teachers STILL get the blame!

happybubblebrain · 02/03/2011 21:46

I think Jamie should stick to what he's best at. It's pretty insulting for someone with little educaton (2 GCSE's) who has made their fame and fortune without qualifications to start preaching about the values of an education.

Lots of young people don't think education is important because there are so many examples in the public eye of people who have done really well without having tried at all at school, people who just got lucky with a tiny bit of talent and lots of confidence. Cockiness obviously goes a long way.

got2bequackers · 02/03/2011 21:46

I think rolf has it spot on. The major problem with teaching is class sizes. When teachers spend their whole time fire fighting, kids and actual teaching gets lost in the mix.

Personally i think that every person is capable of learning given the right approach for them and some individual attention. You cant blame mainstream teachers for not being able to give every child everything they, as individuals, need. There are just too many children, with too many different needs and too few teachers.

CaveMum · 02/03/2011 21:46

Henry's parents just seem far too relaxed about his behaviour and language if yuo ask me. He's swearing and neither of them have pulled him up on it, unlike the other mother and her son. I wouldn't dream of swearing in front of my parents NOW never mind as a teenager.

crapbarry · 02/03/2011 21:46

they're all so inarticulate too.

Petalouda · 02/03/2011 21:47

Totally agree Happy, but glad that so far it's showing just how difficult teaching is, and actually how well we do do!

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londonone · 02/03/2011 21:47

I am guessing that Henry was kicked out of private school, he would probably have been average at some comps!

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londonone · 02/03/2011 21:48

Here we go, disciplinary for the teacher, not for the student though. Unless I am mistaken connor is fat, it;s not like starkey was incorrect!!!!!

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wonderstuff · 02/03/2011 21:49

Sounds like Henry got kicked out of comps too!

got2bequackers · 02/03/2011 21:49

Bloody love Robert Winston

sethstarkaddersmackerel · 02/03/2011 21:49

Happybubble - but surely Jamie is a brilliant person to show them that you need skills like hard work and application to do well even if you don't happen to have done well at school?
I don't think he's been preaching so far.

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londonone · 02/03/2011 21:50

Robert Winston rocks!

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Petalouda · 02/03/2011 21:50

Yeah! Love Prof Robert Winston!

Sadly - we can't do rat dissections at school - but we do do various organs! In classes much bigger than that, with equipment far inferior.
And in much smaller time frames and actual curricula and exams to adhere to!

Would LOVE to do a whole pig!

That is AWESOME!

Heathcliffscathy · 02/03/2011 21:51

HILARIOUS! who's hard now?

crapbarry · 02/03/2011 21:52

we dissected a leaf at school. that was the extent of our anatomy classes. Probably why I didn't excel at my human anatomy classes at uni! I'd have loved to do proper dissections.

magentastardust · 02/03/2011 21:52

I'm behind a bit-still on rolf-why are they all allowed their phones? Surely that would be a start ?

melezka · 02/03/2011 21:52

Robert Winston has taught. Rolf initially trained as a teacher.

You can tell who has teaching skills as well as specific brilliance in a subject.

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londonone · 02/03/2011 21:52

Henry's parents prob got sick of wasting their own money so moved onto taxpayers! The thing that I find most galling is that all these students will have had 10s of thousands of additional funding and supportin terms of staffung etc yet nothing changes as the constraints of the system are such that not only do they fail they often ruin classes for many other children as well.

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CaveMum · 02/03/2011 21:53

Urgghh! I'm too queasy to do disections! I attended a lecture at college about the structure of the horse's leg which involved the lecturer disecting a cadaver leg. Half of my brain thought it was interesting, sadly the other half freaked and I blacked out Grin

Petalouda · 02/03/2011 21:54

magenta all the kids have phones in school, we're allowed to confiscate if they're caught using them in school.

Good enforcing means they're usually ok (even the really rough kids)

Schools won't ban them though.

Despite how damaging they can be to education, reputation, independence, etc.

BunnyWunny · 02/03/2011 21:54

Why can't you dissect a rat in school? I did (about 20 years ago in 1991)

AnotherFineMess · 02/03/2011 21:54

Genuine question londonone, not a sarcastic one - what do you think is the answer? What else can be done for children who can't/won't/don't want to learn?

sethstarkaddersmackerel · 02/03/2011 21:55

has Starkey pulled out after one lesson?

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londonone · 02/03/2011 21:56

Oh Starkey if only all teachers could just stop when the students are difficult.

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Petalouda · 02/03/2011 21:56

Ha! Starkey's given up!

But in his place, another small class (1:10), and a cracking fun lesson by the looks of things.

Starkey - stop dreaming, you've had one session in a situation that's far removed from front-line teaching, and you thought THAT was difficult?!