I found your article today very interesting and I also find it ironic that teachers are now complaining about the very situation they have deliberately contributed to. I was informed that children are now ‘independent learners’ and this was in response to me complaining that whilst the envelope of my daughter’s year report was addressed to me the comments and suggestions for improvement wereTuesday, 6th April 2010
A parent's voice
10:17pm
Yesterday, I wrote in my Daily Mail columnabout the absurdity and worse of treating schoolchildren as quasi-adults ‘responsible for their own learning’, as demonstrated most egregiously by the 'Student Voice' scheme, and how this pernicious orthodoxy had taken an axe to the whole concept of education. One or two teachers wrote to say they didn’t recognise this picture of classroom life. Now a parent has written to me to say the following:
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Wednesday, 7 April 2010
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