As a parent, I was asked to attend the school because my son was described as 'disruptive'. I asked what he had done and was informed that he asked too many questions and would argue with the staff. His favourite subjects were electronics and computer science. They said he did not seem interested in those subjects and I had to tell them that this was because they were teaching stuff he had learned when he was 8 years old. I pulled my son out of school when he was 13. That was in 1985. They were wasting his time and he had told them so.
Frankly, with the internet freely available to all households, I am amazed that any parent sends their children to any school these days. Home schooling is the answer to all the concerns you have raised in your comprehensive article and I am fairly certain that we are being nudged towards that solution by the Chief Prison Warders anyway!
As a parent, I was asked to attend the school because my son was described as 'disruptive'. I asked what he had done and was informed that he asked too many questions and would argue with the staff. His favourite subjects were electronics and computer science. They said he did not seem interested in those subjects and I had to tell them that this was because they were teaching stuff he had learned when he was 8 years old. I pulled my son out of school when he was 13. That was in 1985. They were wasting his time and he had told them so.
Frankly, with the internet freely available to all households, I am amazed that any parent sends their children to any school these days. Home schooling is the answer to all the concerns you have raised in your comprehensive article and I am fairly certain that we are being nudged towards that solution by the Chief Prison Warders anyway!