teddy wrote:

> Nope, nothing that even remotely resembled jography, or anything like
> that, we had what was losely termed as 'open plan' learning, no set
> classes, unstructred learning..  ie  shambles

Oh, yes--sounds like a lot of what's going on here.  All kinds of
experimentation, and it's still apparently not clear to the Powers that
Be (or a lot of teachers, I'm sorry to say) that if you will teach the
children basic skills, they will leave school as skilled individuals.
Doy. And then, of course, Dubya wants to cut funding to "non-performing"
schools--in other words, the schools whose children come to them with
lower skills (usually low-income schools that don't have much in the way
of resources to *help* the kids) end up losing *more* funding, which
means that they can't buy supplies, and teachers can't live on their
salaries and go elsewhere, and so you end up with the dregs of the
teaching profession in the schools where the kids need the most help.
Grrrrrr!

I'm all for throwing out the experimentation and getting back to the
good ol' days of reading, writing, and 'rithmetic. Oh, and government
*support* of schools. That would be nice.

Lissa GrumbleGrumbleMutter Wingling

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