Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts

Monday, 19 March 2012

SACK HER NOW!

Maggie

Sack Dr Maggie Atkinson now!

And improve some rotten schools.

Dr Maggie Atkinson is the Children's Commissioner for England.

She should be aware that many schools in England are out of control.

This is because Head Teachers are not allowed to kick out all the disturbed and criminal elements.

Yet Dr Maggie wants to REDUCE the number of exclusions of law breakers.

(Warning to schools over exclusions - 19 March 2012)

Schools have been warned by Dr Maggie that it is "never appropriate" to exclude pupils for infringements such as breaching school uniform codes or wearing jewellery.

You can probably spot the bad guys in any school.

Too much make-up, "wrong" haircut, dressed like a prostitute, dressed like a drugs dealer...

There has been a falling number of exclusions in schools in England.

Hence the apparent increase in bullying.

Sack Dr Maggie now!

JAMES BULGER

What has Dr Maggie done about the cover up of government-linked child abuse in Islington or on the island of Jersey?

Nothing.

Little James Bulger was murdered by two kids.

Maggie Atkinson suggested James's killers should not have been prosecuted because they were too young.

BBC News - James Bulger's mother calls for commissioner's sacking

Dr Maggie MUST be booted out NOW!

Friday, 3 February 2012

SCHOOL REPORT

Paddington Academy Website for this image

On 2 February 2012, Bagehot of The Economist wrote about "Fixing education: an inspiring school" t

From this we learn:

1. London's Paddington Academy, surrounded by tough housing estates, used to be bad.

Fewer than 20% of pupils achieved decent exam results (at aged 16).

The school had problems with knife fights and drugs.

More than half the kids come from homes poor enough to earn free school meals.

More than three-quarters do not speak English as a first language

Paddington Academy

2. The school was removed from local government control.

It was allowed to choose its staff and teaching methods.

Early on, it expelled some pupils.

3. Last summer 69% of pupils got good exam results, at age 16, well above the national average.

The school recently earned an “Outstanding” grade from school inspectors.

The school "feels calm... and hums with optimism."

Paddington Academy West London ULT

After the exams

4. Paddington now has good staff.

5. There is a strict uniform code.

Pupils are ranked on progress against individual targets.

Staff insist on good behaviour.

Good behaviour is rewarded; bad behaviour has consequences.

Pupils get badges for choir, language-learning, mentoring younger pupils and so on.

6. Early on, Paddington did expel some pupils.

But it now takes on difficult cases, including a kid just out of prison.

7. Paddington is part of a chain of academies sponsored by a charity, the United Learning Trust.

The Trust was formed in 2002 as a subsidiary of the United Church Schools Trust (UCST) which has been running independent schools in the UK since 1883.

In 2009, it was reported that two schools in Sheffield, run by the United Learning Trust, were 'failed' by inspectors.

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Blog Writers Report Various Online 'Attacks'

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

ILLITERATE BRITS


"Teachers report to me that a growing number of children cannot form letters or even hold a pencil.

"Many cannot sit and listen.

"Many can scarcely communicate orally, let alone frame a question.

"Many cannot use a knife and fork.

"Many cannot even go to the lavatory properly.

"Some express their frustration through displays of inarticulate rage."



"60 per cent of white boys eligible for free school meals aren’t reading properly at the age of 14...

"There are more than one thousand primary schools where more than forty per cent of children leave unable to read write and add up properly."

Gove speech on 'the underclass' in full

Friday, 16 September 2011

HOW TO IMPROVE A SCHOOL

Basildon Academies.

On 16th September 2011, the UK's Daily Mail reports on a UK school that has actually improved!

The wrong trousers? No ruler? Get out of my class!.

Basildon Academy, in Essex, was bad.

There was graffiti on walls.

Kids would get up in the middle of class to go for a cigarette.

Fighting, bullying and staff sickness were common.

The new boss of the school, Dr Rory Fox, has changed things.

On his first day at work, Dr Fox sent home 109 kids – for wearing the wrong uniform.

Scores were sent to after-school detention for failing to bring proper equipment to class.

Dozens were put in an isolation centre for disrupting lessons.

Teachers say they have now doubled the amount of teaching time in lessons, as they no longer have the disruption problems.

Most parents support Dr Fox.

Julie Terry, who has three children at the academy, said: "The change is remarkable.

"It’s a complete turnaround.

"Discipline is back, daily fights have gone."

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aangirfan: DISCIPLINE IN SCHOOLS
aangirfan: SCHOOLS

Friday, 8 April 2011

SCHOOLS

1.CanSpeccy said about SCHOOLS:



"Lack of motivation must be a factor.



"When youth unemployment among black Americans is 50%, WTF use is a high school diploma...



"Best to start selling drugs right away and forget school altogether.



"The same sort of destructive thought processes must afflict many children in almost any Western society where work has been offshored and outsourced, to beef up corporate profits, which have rarely been higher.



"In the meantime, workforce skills are wasting away.



"What is the reward for the hard work necessary to obtain a good education? LOL



"They have plenty of good brains in India and China, so who's gonna rush to employ a math wiz. or programming geek who expects to earn a decent salary and who, in any case, is not permitted by law to work for less than than a minimum wage that a fresh graduate in India would die for."



http://canspeccy.blogspot.com/



The Economist Who Said "The Emperor Has No Clothes"



2. Anonymous said...



Japan is no better



"Students’ academic ability is in free-fall, writes Okabe.



"Simple logical thinking is beyond them.



"Their vocabulary is childish, their grasp of mathematics feeble, their curiosity nowhere in evidence.



"The latter is doubly surprising, he points out, in view of the young generation’s easy familiarity with the Internet — but the Net apparently appeals to them more as a playground than as a research venue.



http://educationinjapan.wordpress.com/



Japan's colleges facing 'meltdown' « EDUCATION IN JAPAN COMMUNITY Blog



Thursday, 7 April 2011

DISCIPLINE IN SCHOOLS

Website for this image

In the UK, on 7 April 2011, teachers at Darwen Vale High School, near Blackburn Lancashire, are to stage a walk-out.

The teachers are protesting at the lack of support they have received from the head teacher.

"They say pupils frequently challenge teachers to fights, push and shove them in the corridors and classrooms and are constantly swearing and insulting them." (Strike-hit school governor blames pupil anarchy... on wind and rain‎)

The teachers say that when they take the matters to the head teacher she often sides with the pupils instead of staff.

Americans are worried that their education system is no longer producing enough inventors like Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. "Nearly all his childhood learning took place at home."

So, how should schools be organised?

1. Give pupils a choice of schools.

This means there must be lots of small schools of different types.

All schools should be tiny.

The big schools should be broken up.

2. Give headmasters and teachers the right to exclude pupils who are disruptive.

3. Set up special schools that give intensive care (very expensive) to the disruptive children.

4. Set up top quality schools that cater for the less academic kids.

There are parents and children who want such schools - so long as they are well run, and do not become dumping grounds for the disruptive children.

5. Lower the school leaving age and shorten the school day.

This will mean children will learn more.

That is the paradox.

6. Sack the bureaucrats.

According to an article about UK schools in Scotland on Sunday, 9 September 2007, (Alexander attacks 'bloated' education authorities) one in every four pounds of education funding never makes it to schools.

Studies show that of the average £5,160 spent on a child's education annually, £1,700 is swallowed up by local government.

It is time to close down the "bloated" education authorities. Get rid of the government bureaucrats, both local and national. Sack the education chiefs. It is these folks who have helped to ruin British schools.

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