Reply to: A-grade pupil banned from dance

[zathras]

your school colleagues would have given you a reception of eggs & flour had you had the nerve to show up.

Did you also go to Norwich City College in the mid to late 80's when this was done during Rag Week. The Flour and Eggs was a pig to get out of your clothes and hair.

[Sysman]

What wonderwaif said, in words that I couldn't better ....

And the question of whether it is more important to hide the mixture of ability than to encourage the brighter pupils is indeed a political question.

Would it help any if I told you that when I was a nipper I was told to stop putting my hand up in class too often? To give others a chance?

Remember, she was being told to pretend that she didn't know the answer.

I remember quite well that the operative clause you used was "stop putting her hand up to answer questions so often". That's nothing to do with pretending.

There's also another question lurking here. It's a well known fact that nobody likes either the class swot or teacher's pet.

Please think about that one carefully.

[ControlG]

I believe there's more to this initial story than first meets the eye. The school is very local to where I live and it was also in the news last year when a proposed merger with a failing school in Darlington to produce one of Blair's new Academy colleges was met with uproar and protest from residents of the local villages. After much protest the merger was dropped and the local education authority had to back down.

Hurworth is located in Blair's own Sedgefield constituency and the issue became quite an emabarrasment for him, locally. Interesting though that it didn't seem to make the national news in the same way as one girl missing the school prom because she didn't want to stay behind for extra revision.

For the earlier issues see this archived article

[Euro-commuter]

I hate to disillusion you, but that is a sign of a good teacher, and absolutely FA to do with politics.

What wonderwaif said, in words that I couldn't better ....

And the question of whether it is more important to hide the mixture of ability than to encourage the brighter pupils is indeed a political question.

Remember, she was being told to pretend that she didn't know the answer.

[XTC]

maybe she's just sh*t at dancing. No-one likes a krap dancer.

[bobhope]

Its about encouragement of not so bright pupils to ask questions. Otherwise how would they develope confidence.

Maybe they should stream them then

[andy]

So a sign of a good teacher is to discourage one of their brighter pupils?
I can't agree there. What's up with him just asking somebody else the answer? And if there isn't anybody else with their hand up, what's the Fkin point?

Its about encouragement of not so bright pupils to ask questions. Otherwise how would they develope confidence.

[wonderwaif]

I hate to disillusion you, but that is a sign of a good teacher, and absolutely FA to do with politics.

So a sign of a good teacher is to discourage one of their brighter pupils?
I can't agree there. What's up with him just asking somebody else the answer? And if there isn't anybody else with their hand up, what's the Fkin point?

[Sysman]

My partner's daughter has actually been asked by a teacher to stop putting her hand up to answer questions so often, to give others a chance.

I hate to disillusion you, but that is a sign of a good teacher, and absolutely FA to do with politics.

[Euro-commuter]

PS Bleedin' idiotic. Extra lessons are pointless for bright chldren, they would be better off experiencing more of what there is to life than dull target led cramming. This forcing all to attend is just PC crap so unacheivers do not feel singled out for being unacheivers.

My partner's daughter has actually been asked by a teacher to stop putting her hand up to answer questions so often, to give others a chance.

Country going to hell in handbasket.....journey almost completed.....

[threaded]

level "6" O level?

Yes, they had numbers before the letters which was one of the earlier dumbing down episodes, and the whole thing was called "The School Certificate".

HTH

[Clippy]

Any chance of you repeating the vanishing act?

Here's hoping.

[King_of_Anglia]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6546967.stm

Bugger the reasons for the ban. Who the hell would want to go to a Prom. Is it just another american culture-import.

When I left school, i was glad to see the @rse end of it and the tw@t brained teachers and kids I had to put up with.

i.e. you couldn't get a date, you had an outbreak of acne, your belt wouldn't buckle over your size 36" waist, and your school colleagues would have given you a reception of eggs & flour had you had the nerve to show up.

[sasguru]

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When I left school, i was glad to see the @rse end of it and the tw@t brained teachers and kids I had to put up with.

As no doubt were they - glad to to see the @rse end of you, that is.
An chance of you repeating the vanishing act?

[Sysman]

PS Bleedin' idiotic. Extra lessons are pointless for bright chldren, they would be better off experiencing more of what there is to life than dull target led cramming. This forcing all to attend is just PC crap so unacheivers do not feel singled out for being unacheivers..

Sod the Prom.

I got a lot out of sport at school, and the more important item to me in that article is that she was thrown off the netball team.