In geography, for example, they want children to learn where capital cities are and spend less time on ecological issues like global warming.
Read the rest here:Times Online – Britain
Seemed pertinent at a time when ppl are debating on list what is education for. While I think it would be nice to know which capital city is which (and I don’t know, certainly never learnt it in school) I’m tempted to think that learning about global warming (and what to do about it!) is rather more useful…
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2 responses to “Times Online – Tories turn to schools guru for rewrite of curriculum”
just makes me all the more certain that if I can possibly help it, mine are staying out of school. Love the line which said ‘A’ level students matter more than others …
I have to say I’d go for the capital cities. I feel bombarded from all directions by environmental doom and gloom in so much of what I read to C ( and to a lesser extent, M too) that it makes it hard to learn other things. For example – rainforests. Tons of stuff about the destruction of rainforests, very little about what is there. Fishing – plenty about the dangers of overfishing, very little about fish, the sea, etc