Some or other mind-map type of "guide" for teachers to break up anything that goes against the school... could be interesting.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
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Horrors! Maybe the Schools Are Working Just Fine
In a profound sense, the public schools are not an American institution. They were modeled on the system of public education found in authoritarian Prussia in the early 19th century. After Prussia's defeat by Napoleon in 1807, King Frederick William III reinforced the national school system set up in 1717. Children aged seven to fourteen […]
UK: The kids aren't all right
According to Ann Hagel, a psychologist and research development adviser at the Nuffield Foundation: 'Sixteen-year-olds used to be important members of society: they had jobs, money and an identity. Now, if you aren't interested in another two to five years of conventional education, you're a write-off. They're school children with no power or they're nothing.' […]
Britain's educational system breeds compliant worker-bees
If schoolchildren and students are forced to believe that their economic future is wholly reliant on educational performance, it encourages subordination and conformity. Education becomes a process for stunting creativity and fostering mindless obedience to authority - useful traits in a corporate workforce.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
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Wisconsin school teaches creationism
School board members believed that a state law governing the teaching of evolution was too restrictive. The science curriculum "should not be totally inclusive of just one scientific theory," said Joni Burgin, superintendent of the district of 1,000 students in northwest Wisconsin.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
Schools told to stop exam study leave
UK: Children are to be barred from taking time off school to revise for exams after research showed that keeping them in supervised lessons led to dramatically higher grades.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
Swear in school? You're going to jail
A teenager may go to jail for using foul language with a high school teacher.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
Teacher tells students to lick restroom floor
PARENTS trooped to the Calaanan Elementary School Monday to confront a teacher who allegedly ordered her pupils to lick the toilet floors last Thursday while separate investigations are being initiated on the incident. Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
Best golfer in high school not allowed on the team
The best golfer in high school isn't allowed to join the team -- because she's a girl.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
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