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Our policies for better schools
20/11/2007
It's time for a revolution in the supply of education in this country. So today I made a speech on our first green paper designed to give more opportunity to our children and increase the chances for the brighter future our country deserves.
Posted by tonymakara 21/11/2007 00:04:45
Subject: The 3Rs are a must!
Excellent to see a commitment to the 3Rs as the foundation stone of our children's education. The proposals to help create new schools is a winner. Labour made education their key policy objective in 1997 and now ten years down the road education is in tatters.
Posted by ISMB 23/11/2007 20:53:07
Subject: Education
Reading your new policy for education leaves me questioning whether you have now become totally divorced from reality. In what other profession are the members subject to unannounced inspections whilst they are working. To suggest that lightning Ofsted visits are required must mean you have decided that teachers are the problem rather than the solution. The problem is with the students who are taught in too large classes in conditions where the minority are able to disrupt the learning of all students. If you really want to make a difference you need do only a few things.
1. Make it a legal requirement that no class throughout the system can have more than 12 students.
2. Reduce school sizes to no more than 600 pupils.
3. Remove all targets which only distort teaching, for example counting a BTEC as equivalent to 2 GCSE grades A-C.
4. Find the funding for this from eliminating most of the expensive management structures, which add nothing to educational standards.
These simple things would encourage tens of thousands of teachers who have left the profession, due to the enormous stress under which they work, to return.
Posted by Lizabeth 24/11/2007 13:59:38
Subject: Curriculum content
My concern as a teacher for many years relates to the apparent bias in some material being used in schools.
This is educationally unsound.
I raised this question years ago, David Blunkett's response was that there was no problem as Governors were responsible.
I HOPE YOU SEE TIS DIFFERENTLY AND WILLL ENSURE THAT WHAREVER THE SOURCE MATERIAL PUT INTO OUR SC HOOLS GIVES PUPILS THE TRUTH ,THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT
Posted by Lizabeth 24/11/2007 14:07:26
Subject: Curriculum content
PLEASE REMOVE THE LAST PARAGRPH UNEDITED( AND NOT MEANT TO BE POSTED )BY THIS NOW EDITED!THANK YOU
I hope you see this differently and will ensure any source material fed into schools, from government or elsehere, will give pupils the truth,the whole truth and nothing but.
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