another ROSLA disaster?

Yes its got something to do with costs I think. Despite the fact that they will have to put a lot of money in they reckon they will save money...?
Where they are going to get all the teachers and trainers from God knows.
With any luck by the time these kids stay on I will be retired. My kids are out of the school system now.
Problem is that a lot of kids resent authority and they get it off their parents. Not like that in many competing countries. In China it is very competitive and they are streets ahead in subjects like maths and science. A considerable number here come to school on drugs and there is nothing you can do with them. Not 16 year olds. we have had 11 and 12 year olds. We can impose rules in school but there is not much we can do outside of school.

 

I've got mixed feelings about another ROSLA. IF it means that those kids who would otherwise end up kicking their heels, or someone, or your car, are to be offered some form of vocational education or even an introduction to learning that is practical and recognised as valuable, rather then largely academic, I'm all for it. But if the proposals are simply for an extension of an educational system that is based on the mid or latter 20th century socio-economic values espoused by successive governments, then I reckon ROSLA will be a waste of time and money.
UK plc lost the plot about 20 years ago when it forgot that it takes skilled practical workers to keep the nation running and without them there would be no PROFIT or VALUE ADDED regardless of Captains (or Corporals) of industry with their degrees and theory.
Could go on for hours about how the education system has been made to fail (by politicians not teachers) but I'll spare you and let you get back to thinking about growing nice things!

 

How would anyone like to be the teacher of the Brown offspring? :eek: Now that's pressure!!

I can't say I'm surprised "Our Gordon" has taken that position. Unlike many of the others, he did go through the state system himself, albeit at a time when there were Grammars and Secondary Moderns, and obviously did pretty well at it. He was lucky enough to be raised in Fife, which had, and I believe still has, some very good schools.

But who would want the responsibility of having John Brown junior (I knew the senior - he was our minister at St John's in Hamilton a long time ago....) in your class? I just hope the people who do have that privilege see it as such! :D