I can feel a rant coming on courtesy of the BBC news page...well, more specifically, the reportage 'Special needs support promises more parent power' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12677259.
I'm not big on swearing, but what a load of b*ll*cks!
The heading should read, 'Government uses 'parent power' when it means cutting funding because it firmly believes the general public are all too special to understand what the policy really means!'
Everyone involved in education...either working in education or having children in education or who simply travels past a school on their daily travels knows and understands that the system is a mess, and is fundamentally flawed. I completely agree that a systematic overhaul of the current system is essential to bring the education system in line with the 21st Century...because lets face it, the British Education System is almost Dickensian in its both outlook and ethos. It is a system created from the Ragged school philosophy of social control as required by those 'philanthropic' Industrialist who resented children playing on their one day off each week! It is not a system built upon a quest and thirst for knowledge, it is about pouring facts into empty vessels...Gradgrind, what an inspiration!
Within each and every classroom in this country several (if not most) of the children's educational needs are not met, not catered for and not even acknowledged...and most teachers, assistants and even many of the people in the LEAs are not to blame because, largely they try their damnedest to do their best by each and every child they look after...that is until they become so disillusioned with the system that they switch off and start churning out last years worksheets. It is the philosophy behind the system that is abhorrent and sickening to the core. Because within this country the word pedagogy should really be replaced with the word 'budget' - because that is all that ever matters. Please explain why I pay tax for a Royal family who can afford to send their children to Eton and why I pay for a handful of people to live in unbridled luxury? Why does my hard earned money pay for nuclear warheads when children in every classroom across this country don't have the access to an education which is both nourishing and enriching? And people cry budgets at me, every time I come across a child who needs some extra help, all children have special needs, but some just need that extra support, and in the grand scheme of things, the money involved is peanuts...don't cry budgets at me when I know Headteachers who drive 80 grand cars, and don't cry budgets at me when a single PM has expenses beyond my child's annual education allocation.
So my policy would be this...scrap paying for this Royal farce of a wedding, sod the nuclear warheads - if it gets that far, we're dead anyway, so what the hell - let the Queen and David Cameron and his cronies take the bus and allocate support to EVERY child who needs it (believe me, that would more than cover the money needed) ...not so that they can be force-fed their times tables and the phonological patterns of the 'oo' digraph...but so they can develop the love, passion and enthusiasm for learning which would actually see society progressing in this Century. Obviously though, no British Government would want that: if they created children who were able to think, no-one would ever vote for the self-serving b**stards!
'Big Society' is a country where people take responsibility for everything through unpaid voluntary work, while the government abdicates all responsibility for each and every social element...they are simply a tax collection service, we all seem to be paying our dues to Caesar.
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