"Phytotron wrote:As do we. (It's also more decentralized, even still, despite NCLB.) Indeed, see the talk about charter schools? Your "free schools" were based in part on American charter schools.delinquent wrote:Here in the UK we have several different schooling systems.
Agreed, but in my opinion free schools have advanced somewhat since they have become more attuned to what A) The parents want for their children, and b) What the children's interests are in themselves. as a result, every week a new lesson becomes available, and a new vacancy appears. there is still the basic requirement of maths, English and sciences, and some enforce a language of the students choice, but most of the other lessons are to the choice of the student. many of the schools enforce a months trial of every subject, which also potentially broadens young peoples interests. increasingly, maany students are enquiring about.teaching their own classes in addition, which gives them the opportunity (under supervision) to pass on their own skills and also learn how to teach to a multitude of different learning styles.
I think, here, that it is important to point out (or perhaps re-inforce) that civilisation will never have a perfect mass educational system, and also that, increasingly, learning requirements are changing and even broadening quite.rapidly, pushing each country to further develop their various schooling techniques, and as a direct result of this (and the fact that many countries are regrettably slow on the uuptake) many children will miss out on the "ideal" education. I also think that debates like these should be printed and handed over to the many authorities, as some sort of ideas cabinet. the fact remains, however, that everyone always has an idea about what the "perfect system" should comprise of, and adhering to all the opinions in tthe world simply is not possible.
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I really must apologise for.my many typing errors, I'm using a rather small touchscreen pphone, and my thumbs hurt.
