[Gllug] Light the blue touchpaper...

[Chris Bell]

On Wed 17 Mar, john at sinodun.org.uk wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > Sorry, there just isn't time in the syllabus if kids are going to leave
> >  schooling at 21. If you talk to teachers today you will find that they
> >  are hard pressed to include everything on today's syllabus, and you
> > want  to add a lot more too it.
> 
> Speaking as a [newish] Maths teacher I'd agree with you up to a point.  It
> is indeed very difficult to cover the GCSE Maths syllabus in the time
> available.  And yet the odd thing is that there's far *less* on the
> syllabus than there was when I did 'O' level Maths.  Why we could do more
> in less time then is one of those open questions.
> John
> 
> 
   My mum used to joke that my school books and I were the reasons for the
number of broken paving slabs. Do you find that discipline problems are any
different now compared with what you remember from the past?

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Chris Bell

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