Am I alone in feeling a bit uneasy and suspicious of home education and thinking it is not something to celebrate?
Entries Tagged as 'Education'
Collyer’s Politics Society
February 26th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Politics
After work today I rushed over to Collyer’s, a school in Horsham, to meet with their politics society. Very interesting. I might write more about it, but probably not here: the amount of politics on this site has been getting lower and it is likely to get lower still because I have found a new [...]
In the firing line: teachers
February 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Why should teachers worry about a future Tory government? Some of the answers are here in an article written by George Bridges, who used to be David Cameron’s campaign director, entitled “Time to crush the National Union of Teachers”.
Tags: Education·Tory Targets
There is more to being a teacher than just teaching
February 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
Last month there was a brilliant example of the ways a teacher can improve the lives or happiness of pupils without having to teach anything. The whole pastoral care thing is difficult to pin down and define and impossible to measure and put into league tables, but can make a lot of difference, which we [...]
Tags: Education·Family·Schooldays
School’s Out – part two
February 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Still on the topic of school closures, and after reading the Guardian’s story more closely I realise that I missed the opportunity to ride one or two of my hobby horses, so let’s try again…
School’s Out
February 4th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Life
This morning the Guardian managed to simultaneously write about the fuss concerning schools closing due to snow and demonstrate the need for education, by including this line in their story:
The anger was most acute in cities where every schools was shut
Tags: Education
Graham Stringer
January 15th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Politics
The most efficient responses to Graham Stringer’s bizarre outburst about dyslexia would be one word long. “Idiot” for example. Other responses could be book-length disections of his remarks. I’ll seek the middle ground on this one…
Tags: Education·Idiots·Medicine/Health
19th Nervous Breakdown
August 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments · Life
Its GCSE results day tomorrow… I’m kind of glad that I will be at work and safe from the critical mass of nervous energy, anticipation, dread, expectation and teenage angst that will be brewing up in the vicinity of many homes and every secondary school tomorrow.
Record of achievement
May 13th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Life
On Friday we went down to K2 for Thomas Bennett’s Year 11 Record of Achievement ceremony. I had not not been to one of these before – I missed Frankie’s and Chas’s school did something in the evening which was on a much smaller scale: he did go to a much smaller school.
Tags: Crawley·Education·Schooldays
Come on Sheffield!
March 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
I do not normally find myself cheering Sheffield on, and especially not after all the bad feeling at the end of the last football season, but tonight they are in the final of University Challenge against Christ Church College, Oxford
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