Comment on Peers call for urgent overhaul of secondary education in England
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 9 months ago
I’m sure they could do without the overhauls every few years, but this one’s important. Gove’s removal of “learning around a subject to understand a subject” and replacing it with “memorise and repeat a list of things you’re told are correct, without thinking about them” was bad for pupils, bad for teachers and bad for the future of the country.
Jho@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Agreed.
Overhauling shouldn’t be taken lightly, it has a negative effect on the students who have to adapt to these changes suddenly (whilst sitting exams which can/will affect the future course of their lives).
But this past decade of overhauls has absolutely put secondary education in a worse state than it was in before. This needs to be corrected.
Pre-2013 secondary education already had a big issue with “just memorise it” in my experience of doing exams back then, to hear it’s only gotten even worse the past few years is very distressing.