I still act as an education consultant and was shocked yesterday to find that 15 year olds in one school were being spoon fed by their teacher in order to help them with their work - something that has become second nature to many teachers as they seek to get them better grades in their studies - this will help the school and teacher but is rotten education for the students.
They were being told that they could write to me for software for their projects.
However the teacher wrote the message to me for these year 11 students to copy.
Surely they could have done this for themselves.
This was a task they could surely done for themselves ?
How will these young people be able to cope when they leave school and later home if they haven't been encouraged to do simple tasks like this for themselves.
What is being put first is the success of the school in achieving high exam results , so the kids are not being encouraged to think and do for themselves.
As I sometimes say: YUK.
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