When the government seem to be increasingly appealing to the uneducated, is it any wonder schools are running out of money?
The article is from last October, and is consequently very much out of date.
However, the staffing crisis has only worsened since then. By Christmas, I think we’ll see widespread school closures due to inability to keep teachers in classrooms.
Many parents (working mothers) will need to leave the workforce in order to look after their children; the NHS will be badly affected. Teachers leaving the profession have sought after skills in office jobs, and will be able to pick up the jobs left by these working mothers.
Many parents will be unable to do this due to financial pressures, and so children will be left unsupervised during the day. This will put more pressure on police forces.
We’re in for a very bad winter.
It’s always annoyed me that we focus on the wrong things in school. Maths is useful, but applied maths is better, mortgages, interest rates, phone bills and forecasting. I’m a process architect and learned every skill I use daily, after I finished school. I literally couldn’t have got a job, or even been aware of its existence, had I relied on the education I received from school. College isn’t much better. University is a huge leap that goes completely the other way, it is assumed you know (for some reason you are supposed to now be skilled in your chosen area, having not been taught it at school then not taught it at college), and university guides you through using the skills.
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When the government seem to be increasingly appealing to the uneducated, is it any wonder schools are running out of money?
The article is from last October, and is consequently very much out of date.
However, the staffing crisis has only worsened since then. By Christmas, I think we’ll see widespread school closures due to inability to keep teachers in classrooms.
Many parents (working mothers) will need to leave the workforce in order to look after their children; the NHS will be badly affected. Teachers leaving the profession have sought after skills in office jobs, and will be able to pick up the jobs left by these working mothers.
Many parents will be unable to do this due to financial pressures, and so children will be left unsupervised during the day. This will put more pressure on police forces.
We’re in for a very bad winter.
It’s always annoyed me that we focus on the wrong things in school. Maths is useful, but applied maths is better, mortgages, interest rates, phone bills and forecasting. I’m a process architect and learned every skill I use daily, after I finished school. I literally couldn’t have got a job, or even been aware of its existence, had I relied on the education I received from school. College isn’t much better. University is a huge leap that goes completely the other way, it is assumed you know (for some reason you are supposed to now be skilled in your chosen area, having not been taught it at school then not taught it at college), and university guides you through using the skills.