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#homeschooling a #thread Someone please tell me what interpreting Sonnet 18 has to do with helping a child to learn the skills necessary to lead a successful life?
I have a 12 year old in tears who has decided English is boring and too hard because of this experience
Isn’t it time we admitted that despite some excellent, committed and long-suffering teachers that the curriculum is out of date, irrelevant and not preparing kids to be successful in a challenging and changing world.
We are destroying their natural curiosity to learn with 400 year old gibberish never mind the other stuff that they’ll never use.
Lockdown has made it harder for sure because they don’t have the face to face contact with teachers and the social experience of their peers but this needs addressing urgently.
The system is geared towards academic achievement but the university system is unlikely to survive in its current form. Having a degree does not guarantee a return on your time and money investment any more.
The only guarantee is £30K of debt unless you are lucky enough to come from a wealthy background.
Kids need to learn entrepreneurship, creativity, collaboration and practical problem solving, how to sell, persuade and have influence, invest, play, how to look after their mental and physical health and so on.
Rhyming couplets don’t put bread on the table.
My kids learn more and have more fun from 20 minutes on an interactive app than in two hours of old school lessons.
Let’s remove the bureaucracy and let teachers teach. Give them the freedom to engage with business owners and the world of work properly to light the fuse of learning.
I’ve been told many times that teachers are two focused on exams to teach year ten and eleven students the stuff they need to know outside of education.
We are making a terrible mistake and teaching everyone a system that only a small percentage can ever thrive in.
If you get excited by the academic route then crack on. We need you. Go get straight level 9s/grade As and go and research til your eyes bleed. Make vaccines, build technologies and do your thing.
But what if this ain’t your path. We’ve got nothing for you. This needs to change urgently. Their jobs haven’t been invented yet and the ones were preparing them for won’t exist in five years.
And it’s bloody dry January.
