Sounds absurd, doesn't it? But this is the level of absurdity that is being reached nowadays in our schools. As part of the deception described in an earlier post, the system and its teachers insist on putting the responsibility of their education into the children's own hands. After a while teachers forget the initial purpose of this fiction and end up genuinely believing it.
"We offer them support sessions, but if they don't attend it's their choice." "We want our students to develop personal responsibility." One keeps hearing at parent evenings. No one considers that the price these teens will pay for not "being responsible" is their whole professional future, their lives. Does this not sound like too harsh a consequence for "wrong" choices at school age? Do we really expect teenagers at he height of their hormonal levels to be concerned with working hard, if they are given a choice?
Again, those without parents with money and/or backgrounds that allow them to be on top of their children's education will suffer the most from these. Again, the educational system is working to perpetuate, instead of against, class differences.
Have a look at one glorious example. A questionnaire put to 13 year old pupils about their maths lessons. I suppose this is a safety net in case the poor boys and girls are being stressed out too much, despite the efforts by the teachers not to set them too challenging targets, lest they be traumatized...
I also want to decide how much work....je,je
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