How The British Government Is Destroying Children's Education - General

[video=youtube;n-eRB2s6LE8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-eRB2s6LE8[/video] [quote]Mick Meaney ([URL="http://www.rinf.com/"]http://www.rinf.com[/URL]) speaks to a school teacher about how the British government is destroying children's education. Sources: [URL="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/teachers-speak-out-against-michael-goves-lists-of-facts-curriculum-8572623.html"]http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/...[/URL] [URL="http://rinf.com/alt-news/politics/connecting-the-dots-corporate-influence-in-government/30034/"]http://rinf.com/alt-news/politics/con...[/URL] [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/27/michael-gove-education-policies-old-fashioned-1950s"]http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfr...[/URL] [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22558756"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-2...[/URL] [URL="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/education/michael-goves-policies-will-condemn-dyslexic-pupils-says-top-author-sally-gardner-8665108.html"]http://www.standard.co.uk/news/educat...[/URL] [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2013/jan/24/academy-school-system-heading-rocks"]http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-net...[/URL] [URL="http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2012/09/07/over-half-of-secondary-schools-now-academies"]http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2012/0...[/URL] [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21988209"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-2...[/URL][/quote]

Shouldn't the title have "are" not "is"? I think it would sound better.

[QUOTE=isnipeu;42487381]Shouldn't the title have "are" not "is"? I think it would sound better.[/QUOTE] It's not his fault, his education was destroyed.

[QUOTE=isnipeu;42487381]Shouldn't the title have "are" not "is"? I think it would sound better.[/QUOTE] Government can be plural or singular regarding it's context. I think the title is fine in the current context.

I agree on the overall point but I think they could have done the video much better... Personally I see no issue with academy schools as long as there are limits on how far it goes. My old high school was a Microsoft academy and we got all kinds of support, discounts and free stuff for them and its not like they were brainwashing us with Microsoft products. The same with things like putting branded tablets into schools, yes they get promotion out of it but at the same time if it provides poorer schools with a means to keep up then so be it. The real issue is that our whole curriculum is a bit rubbish and is taught in a rubbish way. The exams are just memory tests that for the most part require little to no understanding of the subject, just the ability to regurgitate textbook answers rather than apply any kind of individual/creative thought to it. This whole concern over maths/English GCSEs for workplaces is the stupidest thing ever...The reason they want people with at least a C in English is because it demonstrates reading/writing ability, yet the exam has you looking at poems and pulling a bunch of random meanings out of your ass which you can argue are there. I couldn't stand doing that stuff and despite probably having the best spelling/vocabulary out of anyone in the school as well as half the teachers, I got a D in English, which pretty much highlights why its awful. Lastly we are still stuck as though its 20 years ago. Classes for subjects are split into sets, usually set 1 being the best then every set up after that meaning worse and worse ability. This means that with the lower sets you basically have all of the worst students for one reason or another, and they turn into totally uncontrollable classes because you have 15 kids screaming and throwing things instead of 1-2 per class, so pretty much the worst keep getting worse with no support while the better classes tend to get the best qualified teachers and keep getting better. My school had zero support for people who were misbehaving, they didn't try to help or find out why, they literally just put them into a seclusion room instead of their class with instructions for work and they had no contact with anyone until break times.

Yeah I agree the video is presented in a pretty dry and dull way. There are far deeper problems with the education system and curriculum as you say.

The amount of 1 sided propaganda in this video is sickening. This makes the British Government sound like it's trying to consciously and deliberately destory the education system, saying that is not only wrong, it's also illogical. Why would any government do that? The problem with any government is the same with the NHS and the education system in that noone is willing to blame the Doctors or the Teachers, yes most of them are doing good jobs and trying hard but there are a minority of them who genuinely are a problem and to sweep them under the carpet and claim that they're all working hard is the wrong approach. Another problem is that they're both politicised, rather than leaving it to the professionals, who should be unaffected by ideology or dogma and simply run them how they should be.

[QUOTE=The mouse;42490195]The amount of 1 sided propaganda in this video is sickening.[/QUOTE] It's almost like I was watching a Daily Mail or UKIP production