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Originally Posted by Guinness
You guys really think that giving an 11 year old an IQ test to determine the quality of education they are given for the next 5-6 years is a good system??
Passed the 11+ myself, can't actually recall taking the actual exam thats how important it was to me, so it was pure luck I received a grammar school education which I promptly proceeded to waste until the day I left school and chucked my satchel in the canal.
Jaysay you are totally correct in that every child has different eductional needs....such a pity that all kids are forced into an establishment that values academic achievement and stifles creativity and independent thought, that teaches by rote from a curriculum decided by civil servants and then to add insult to injury has an MP say that even though you studied hard in one of these academia you should go and stack shelves.
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I, for one, don't believe that the 11+ was a good way of sorting out kids, and putting them on a track which affected the rest of their lives. There are problems with IQ tests which folks tend to ignore, treating them as "neutral". And curricula are designed to manufacutre "good citizens", as in those who will conform to the system. It isn't surprising that when cuts come in schools, the programmes that suffer are one's deemed to be "frills": art and music come to mind, as do physical education classes ... strange this when childhood obesity is one of the major problems facing the UK ... and Canada, the US; in fact, all the "developed" nations. Folks think "back to the basics" and "concentration on the three Rs" are the answers to the crisis in education. The crisis in the system is the system itself. And the treating of education as a system.