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Originally Posted by jonbxx
That's suggesting that people from certain racial backgrounds are solely at fault for their own lack of attainment. Successful education is a two way street - pupils need to engage in the education system but also the education system needs to engage with pupils of all backgrounds.
We all had subjects we hated when we were at school. To an extent, you have to have a natural talent in any given subject but the subject itself needs to be interesting. I have been going through a number of GCSE syllabi with my youngest as she has been doing her options. Two subjects I hated at school, history and RE look really interesting now. History has gone away from kings and queens and their dates of reign to thematic areas (history of medicine, cold war and the rise of the nazis for example) Religious Studies as it is called now compares and contrasts different religions but 50% of the course is ethics and the role of religion in society.
Of course it might be that I am older with education being wasted on the young and all that but courses now seem so much more interesting than when I was at school.
The biggest tragedy in education is talented pupils slipping though the system. How many great minds have slipped through the cracks of the system? I am sure we all know people who are fiercely intelligent with little or no formal education to back that up
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So teachers are distinguishing between West African and Afro-Caribbean children, and somehow giving the Afro-Caribbean children a worse education, all within the same class?
Subjects that are studied purely because they are interesting, tend to have little or limited use in the real world. Subjects which are of real use, tend to be a barrage of facts. No getting around that.