Truss (general uk sucks thread)

bosstrabs

It’s literally part of the national curriculum and has been for years!

alistair

Force them to watch the Martin Lewis show

Old-Dutch

I didn’t have any classes on it Dave and the school I went to is one of the best ‘grant maintained’ schools in the county based on GCSE and A-Level results.

There was no PSE - we got Religious Education

bosstrabs

Old-Dutch That’s probably why - it’s not assessed / examined so it ’s probably totally fucking binned off by exam- results obsessed Heads

mono-stereo

Old-Dutch Same here. Can’t remember Father Gogarty teaching us anything about compound interest tbh.

Old-Dutch

Yeah but it should be assessed. It should be something you have to study and learn - not a fucking side-show that kids switch off from.

Old-Dutch

mono-stereo

I bet you can still remember the smell his knob cheese though eh, Mono?

bosstrabs

mono-stereo Compound interest was done in about Year 7 Maths anyway, you were just listening to your Warren G tape

Mad_Cyril

mono-stereo
Christian Brothers school for me.

Only life skills we were taught were self defense in the showers

mono-stereo

Old-Dutch cleanliness is next to godliness.

mono-stereo

bosstrabs The only thing I remember about year 7 Maths is when my mate Mike farted and the entire class ended up being sent out.

Old-Dutch

Hahaha. I was taught that too.

They got something right with their curriculum

bosstrabs

mono-stereo Great japes. Our Maths classroom had windows onto the corridor running all along one wall of the classroom. Whenever any lad walked past they would do the walk that would make it look like they were descending some stairs that weren’t there. This happened almost every day for a whole school year. Hilarious & Co.

LT42

bosstrabs Whenever any lad walked past they would do the walk that would make it look like they were descending some stairs that weren’t there.

Lol, the old classic. Can’t beat the raw bants from school. Our classroom doors had small square glass portholes at door handle height, it was so year heads and such could peak in and check without having to disrupt the class, every now and then a cock & balls or arse cheek would appear squashed up against the glass. Great days.

hugopal

bosstrabs AN EXECUTIVE

And this is an area where you’re being obtuse and misleading - it’s not fully an executive in the sense it usually applies in a nation state; you’re overestating how much power they have. The European Council and the Council also in effect have significant, or even dominant, executive powers.

Millsy

LT42 great to hear the head of year teachers at your school were all about the bantz too.

hugopal

Old-Dutch Why are kids not taught politics and about real life finances - mortgages, interest rates, inflation, loans, taxes, VAT etc.?

So they can be more easily screwed over by banks and politicians? Not entirely sure I believe that, but not impossible.

Old-Dutch

Honestly wouldn’t surprise me that it’s not all a coincidence

Hursty

Religious schools sound horrific, I struggle to believe they exist in this day and age but alas as has been pointed out the schooling system is broken and hasn’t really changed for a 100 years.

Kids get zero life skills or social skills but know specific information in specific subjects which they won’t actually need.

alistair

Hursty they exist because they often top the league ables so parents are keen to get their kids in there. The Oratory in London being a case in point.

Millsy

CofE schools are bad enough. Load of old bollocks

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