Hi Kwikbitch and your profession please
no prizes then
My experience is following my daughters progression through the system and going to 99% of all parent evenings having teachers as friends and debating said arguments and my wife having been a caretaker of a school for 6 years and dealing with both teachers and pupils.
please tell me if education is not being dumb'd down why science is now merged into one lump when clearly if you need doctors/vets etc they need basic grounding in specific sciences not some overview that falls short of the knowledge they need to take A level sciences.
and one wonders why there is such a huge drop out rate in the sciences and that most sucsseful pupils come from the private sector.
ian

teachers...tough job, made harder by a control freak govt

some are good

some are bad

like all walks of life

question really is why should someone who has nothing and not tried have the same has someone who has nothing but did their best...for me the state should support those who give/have given it THIER best shot and are willing to contribute in some way :)

kwikbitch
one classic example of why I have lost all understanding of the profession.
Just before my daughters GCSE's like all teenagers she could'nt be arsessed sometimes to revise and at a parents meeting I said to her geography teacher that I thought she was under achieving, the teacher then turned to my daughter and asked what she was going to do after her exams she reply'd that she wanted to go to her local sixth form to do A level Geography.
and this is were I fell through the floor she said to my daughter thats OK all you need is a C to get into there bearing in mind that she was boardering on an A pass if she put her mind to it.
after that she really relaxed and got a D thats what I call a real incentive to better yourself.

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