Truss (general uk sucks thread)

CofE schools are bad enough. Load of old bollocks

alistair Exactly my point, the whole system is fucked, many parents only care about exam results, not whether they can demonstrate any soft skills or understand what life is actually like.

Did you play against the Vaughan as well, Ed?

I’m not actually sure that it should be a school’s responsibility to teach life skills if I’m honest.

Old-Dutch Did you play against the Vaughan as well, Ed?

I didn’t Dutch no.

Along_the_Wire I’m not actually sure that it should be a school’s responsibility to teach life skills if I’m honest.

Going to boarding school in the mean streets (countryside) of West Sussex made me the man I am today.

Along_the_Wire Agreed, you’ll get the same results as you do now anyway. Imagine being told about mortgages and soft skills when you’re trying to concentrate on your next Tik Tok or the tits on the teacher. At 14 you could care less about adults telling you how important grown up stuff is.

LT42 fair point. But if I was shown that you could invest £50 a month today in, say, Tesla, and return £500k by your 30s it would picque my interest somewhat.

Smallman1 wise words indeed. The commodity I’ve invested most in?

Broccoli

Millsy It’ll defo pique interest but most (not all) will just file it under ‘boring Maths’ and you’ll get the same results anyway.
I think it would take more than just teaching it, it would have to be presented in a way that is appealing to young teenagers, what that would look like I don’t know but the vast majority of teens nowadays find it hard to study and take any interest in subjects given the distraction of social media and what they’re friends are doing. I see it first hand. The modern curriculum which is as old as the hills doesn’t work for most unfortunately, kids should do less subjects and build over time, the workload they have nowadays is far too much and they burn out and lose interest way too fast.

Along_the_Wire Interesting take on it, if school shouldn’t prepare you for real life, then what should it’s purpose be?

To give you a myriad of nepotistic connections.

Hursty schools don’t teach you to talk, walk, or wipe your arse, I expect a school to provide education, not life skills.

Smallman1 lol

Along_the_Wire It depends how you define education, I assume you take the traditional view, which is broken imo.

Hursty It’s not about how I define education, it’s about what is a parent’s responsibility and what isn’t. I get that some parents are complete thicket cunts who don’t give a fuck, but the majority are responsible adults who are more than capable of helping with life skills. I realise I might sound like some kind of Tory cunt here, apologies if so.