Originally Posted by
Geoff Parkstone
Ref Bash Street Academy, are you suggesting that everything has to be dragged down to the lowest common denominator to meet the vaunted objective of equality of opportunity!? So the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater?
Plan forward, throw a disproportionate share of resource at those schools to enable them to align with the new normal. I refuse to accept that, in an era where most 10 year olds seem to have mobiles, notebooks, gaming tech, ipads etc plus probably access to laptops, a semi-tech based education cannot be introduced. All it takes is for mum to come off Facebook for a few hours a day ��
Not only that, the schoolkids of today embrace that tech and would well be more inclined to learn from home/online than have to haul arse out of bed at 7am to get to school.
OK it won't work for the more hands on practical lessons eg art, DT, PE etc but that's for the days when in school.
I seriously think there is an opportunity here to enhance learning and make the process more attractive to pupils, particularly those in secondary school