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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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My daughter started secondary school last September, as time goes by I am realising that she lacked sold educational foundation to prepare her for the role. Simple things like making notes while the teacher is speaking, never taught. Are you, were you happy with the primary educational system? |
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By *iewMan
over a year ago
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yes, I loved my early times at school... secondary was not so great.
my parents spent a long time ensuring my sister & I completed all homework and re_iewed the day we had just had.
I believe education is a joint responsibility between parents and teachers.
( then they split up and my mum as a single parent continued ) |
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education is a joint responsibility between parents and teachers.
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agreed, we were mildly surprised when our eldest's teacher whilst he was at primary school thanked us for 'our support' as he needed a verbal 'kick up the backside'..
we saw it as working together to help them get the best out of him, think some other parents were not so supportive hence her reaction..
sad really when you look at it.. |
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Roman catholic convent primary here, we learnt the bible, the bible and more bible,if the nuns could have fit the bible in to pe they would have done 
It was an excellent education, we never made notes,we were taught to listen, absorb and think...note taking started at secondary school,and thus was taught there.
i am constantly glad we live in northumberland though,which has the three tier system, which fits better with how children develop. |
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education is a joint responsibility between parents and teachers.
agreed, we were mildly surprised when our eldest's teacher whilst he was at primary school thanked us for 'our support' as he needed a verbal 'kick up the backside'..
we saw it as working together to help them get the best out of him, think some other parents were not so supportive hence her reaction..
sad really when you look at it.."
Our eldest has special needs, before he started middle school i thought the hed was going to kiss us when we met her to discuss his needs and our main concern was that he be given no special treatment.It is clear many parents fight rather than work with schools. |
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My daughter has she wants to be a nutritionist but her her school has dropped the home economics class for 5th yr students because there isnt enough students wanting to take it .
I contacted the school to see if there was anything they could do for her as she needs to do this to get into uni later when she leaves school i was told there was nothing they could do i even suggested if it would be possible for her to be sent to another school to do it and was told no.
Now she will have to try and find a course she can attend out with school hours to get the grades she needs to get her into uni and i think it so wrong that her chosen career is being jeoperdised because if this .  |
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My son attends a catholic school (Even though we are not catholic) He is so hell bent on becoming a famous guitarist and is only 9 years old so i very much expect that career ambition to change many more times (Considering this time last year he wanted to be a bin man  )
BUT ... His school does not hold any type of music lesson so have arranged for him to have his own lessons after school.. And they even cover the cost.
Many other children are given the same treatment in what they want to do also.
They cover everything from cooking to business studies and i really wouldnt have him in any other school to be honest.
My niece on the other hand attends a different school and a different county and it couldnt be more opposite, Shes a bright kid and even though is the same age as my son she seems to only just be learning things he covered a year or even 2 years ago, Her school report was full of bad spelling by certain teachers and they do not encourage anything there at all.
Its down to the school you choose, Some are great and some just shouldnt be open.
I feel so sorry for my niece as theres not a lot you can do now, Its not nice to move them but sometimes it is what has to be done.
Education is a joint effort though... It is our job to teach our children too but there is only so far a parent can take it. |
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education is a joint responsibility between parents and teachers.
agreed, we were mildly surprised when our eldest's teacher whilst he was at primary school thanked us for 'our support' as he needed a verbal 'kick up the backside'..
we saw it as working together to help them get the best out of him, think some other parents were not so supportive hence her reaction..
sad really when you look at it..
Our eldest has special needs, before he started middle school i thought the hed was going to kiss us when we met her to discuss his needs and our main concern was that he be given no special treatment.It is clear many parents fight rather than work with schools."
true, with the only ones losing out being the kids..
had nuns in primary and secondary for a while, some were bloody savage with the cane lol..
and they should have took up darts the way they would 'ping' your head with a piece of well aimed chalk.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My daughter started secondary school last September, as time goes by I am realising that she lacked sold educational foundation to prepare her for the role. Simple things like making notes while the teacher is speaking, never taught. Are you, were you happy with the primary educational system?"
parents are always quick to blame the teacher or the school. If you have a worry you should go talk to the teacher or the school before making assumptions.
Sometimes, something has been taught - just not adopted by the learner in question. |
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Hated school both primary and secondry.. I was bulled in both... Quite severly in secondary school was knocked out once and my wrist broken when someone slammed a door shut with my arm in door. I developed an eating disorder in the 4th year.. I did not go to school at all till the 5th year to sit my exams I have lost around 9 stone and was 9 stone in weight I was 6ft tall...
To this day I have a bad relationship with food.. Also am not the most confident of characters however I successed in life... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Got my eldest parents evening tomorrow to discuss options at the moment her expected grade is A* she is doing fantastic.
My youngest could'nt give two figs she loves school but would much rather be out playing, riding a bike very sporty.
Now the thing with educations they have such small amount of time to learn and primary is just that to build the foundations the £3 rs once they have these then they can build. |
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"took my child out of the system ,teachers do not know how to talk to the kids these days .
just out of interest how should children be spoken too?"
i wondered that too, in my experience well brought up children nver need to be taken out of school. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"took my child out of the system ,teachers do not know how to talk to the kids these days .
just out of interest how should children be spoken too?
i wondered that too, in my experience well brought up children nver need to be taken out of school."
yeah i second that. Speaking as a former pupil if i showed my teachers respect they would be polite and show me respect back, if pupil were a pain in the ass and disruptive the school had a good policy put in place to deal with those cases where it was preventing those pupils who wanted to learn from doing so.
I was brought up well and selected my friends (possibly not who my parents might have picked for me) but i was behaved, polite, respectful to others and that was down to my parents putting me on the straight and narrow from day one. Good parenting and good support at school
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hated my primary schools because as a child my parents were moving every year or so which ment i never had time to settle. secondary school wasnt much better but now in my 50's i have 2 years at college under my belt and now am at uni...  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"took my child out of the system ,teachers do not know how to talk to the kids these days .
just out of interest how should children be spoken too?"
they should not be called RETARDS or IDIOTS by teachers ,two of the teachers have now left that school shows they where in the wrong . |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"took my child out of the system ,teachers do not know how to talk to the kids these days .
just out of interest how should children be spoken too?
i wondered that too, in my experience well brought up children nver need to be taken out of school."
yes child was not a problem. thachers that where a problem , you have to hear both sides of a story. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"took my child out of the system ,teachers do not know how to talk to the kids these days .
just out of interest how should children be spoken too?they should not be called RETARDS or IDIOTS by teachers ,two of the teachers have now left that school shows they where in the wrong ."
that's awful. Teachers are supposed to be trained to recognise "alternative learning methods" and "learning barriers" and to differentiate their teaching accordingly and to refer on if they are unable to cope.
Totally unacceptable, I hope you took it further. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I had a fantastic time at both schools, I went purely to socialise I think.
My daughter chose her own school. She decided to sit the 11 plus and got accepted in two schools. Finally accepting a grammar school that for the first time in over a 100 years was letting 50 girls in. She thrived in it, loved every moment. Went on to become a prefect. Something that to me would have been shock and horror when I was at school. Anyhow her aspiration is to go back and be the first female pupil to have gone through the school and go back to teach. In the past all the teachers and headmasters and been "old boys". So in terms of my daughters education it has been a sucess story |
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Very True!
