jimbojetset said:For at least the past ten years children in schools have been the subject of a vast and doomed series of social experiments.
Social experimentation in schooling has been happening since we have had schooling and every generation has complained about the type of system in place. As Ex Reme says, I agree with most of what you say, but it is so complex no matter what system or process is used, people will get left behind.
I'll not quibble with that, but it's interesting that in ten years we've gone through a series of edicts as to how things should be taught - and ended up with a complete return to the systems of a decade ago. What I'm angered about is those poor sods who've been in 'the system' in the interim. If it was OK ten years ago, what the hell have we been doing since then - and why?
The reality is that it takes an extraordinarily brave (or stupid) Minister to say 'No, things are working reasonably well, we will leave them alone'.