what's
wrong with our education system
1/
According to Katherine Birbalsingh, the problem with UK's education
system is that it lets children blaming the system for their fails,
they don't take responsabilities, they think that the teacher is
responsible for absolutely everything that happen at school :
bad grades, bad behaviour...
Kathering
think that adults always make excuses for children, they don't let
them being responsible for themselves. She says for example :
« we created a culture where children would turn up to exams
without a pen and they expect to be given one ! »
2/
According to thi teacher, the problem exist because of the lack of
freedom speech for teachers, if they criticize the system, they
necessary implicate their school, so they stay quiet and the
situation stays the same. She alson says that th UK created an
« excuse culture » where we always try to find excuses
for children's behaviour.
3/
The minister government doesn't think that government is to blame
for the problem, he thinks that their is a problem of discipline and
education, he thinks that discipline, quiet places and good
education are present in some schools and not in others, he agree in
the fact that sometimes they are genuine reasons why children behave
in a particular way, but he insists in the fact that teacher must be
suported. He doesn't say who is to blame for that but he affirms
that the governement is not to blame for that.
4/
To improve the system, Katherin thinks that the excuse culture that
they live in must change, children have to be responsible for
themselves.
5/
She woud want to empower teachers to be able to do what's necessary
to bring back discipline in their schools, by giving them freedom,
she thinks we need to trust teachers more.
In
my opinion the education system in my country has several problems.
The problem that
Katherine
Birbalsingh talks about is also valid for france, we live in a
country where, when a child makes a mistake, the parents come to
blame the teacher ! Kids in france don't take responsabilities
for what they do, and parents support them in that way. Last month, I
heard on the news that a mother slapt a teacher in the face because
she gave her child hours in detention.
Finally
the children are not to blame for that, they just are victims of the
eduation their parents gave to them, the solution would be to educate
parents, to make them understand that teachers are not there to
punish their kids, but to teach them, not only mathematic, history,
or science, but also how they should behave .
This
is not the only problem that exist in the education system in france,
a problem that I personnaly had to face, is orientation ; in
france when you are graduated from high school you find yourself
completly lost, because the orientation counselor didn't do his job
properly. I have the feeling that each counselor say exactly the same
thing to every students who belong to the same spinneret. And I'm not
the only person who thinks like that, every students whom i talk
with, think exactly the same.
The
solution to this problem would be to stop putting students in boxes
and to really be interested by who they are and what they like, not
just by what they study, i personnaly studied economy and today i
study languages.
