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Originally Posted by Guinness
...Kids leave school with a worse grasp of English than many of their foreign counterparts taking English as a second language. Many cannot spell, most have little to no vocabulary, and cannot do basic mathematics. Who is to blame for that then?
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Parents.
Many parents in underprivileged areas treat school as free childcare for 30 or so hours per week. They don't care what their child is doing while at school. Many more have the apathetic view that school doesn't make a difference - there are no jobs when the kids have "done their time" anyway. They feel no incentive to help improve the school, so it means the school will never improve.
They aren't the only parents at fault. There are other parents who
do care what happens to their kids during the day - to the extent that they are willing to lie or move house or whatever to make sure their kids get in a "good" school. What they don't realise is that this behaviour perpetuates the problem of disillusioned, troublesome pupils all being concentrated into one set of schools.
Nobody will ever convince them to mix it up, because humans are fundamentally selfish.
So with the "good" schools destined to always get the cream, and the "bad" schools never getting out of their rut, you'll always have a two-tier educational system, both in terms of the ability and/or motivation of the pupils, and the ability/motivation of the teachers.
I've got very limited experience of the quality of modern teachers: Only my son's primary and secondary schools to go by. Both are exemplary, in my opinion. So while I have a 100% satisfaction rating for our educational system, it's hardly based on a representative sample.
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Originally Posted by Mancie
Lets be honest..a teachers strike is abit of a hassle that we can mostly cope with.. when the police and nurses strike it's not so good and could happen within the next few years.....
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Don't think the nurses will strike any time soon - my wife's gift from the NHS for 30 years of service is a debanding of her pay grade. The same job for £3,000 less.