Primary school pupils got the chance to learn to raise sheep and milk cows as part of a city-wide programme to teach them about the countryside.Oh oh...
Many got close enough to touch farm animals for the very first time including sheep and goats.That won't please the H&S hysterics...
What a load of bo**ocks education is these days. I've never visited a farm, touched a sheep or milked a cow, but I know where milk comes from and the basic process to get it. I know where wool and lamb comes from too. Why waste time and money taking kids to pretend farms to show them this, just tell them, it worked for me.
ReplyDeleteAha but taking the kids out ticks another required box on some guff 'requirement'that is probably entitled something like 'external education outside the classroom' or some such cack.
ReplyDeleteSchool visits like this seem to be taking the place of teaching. My friends 12 year old tells me what she is doing at school and it bloody horrifies me. They seem to spend an awful lot of time dancing on gym mats and watching videos or making up posters condemning animal cruelty. Oh and the obligatory lessons on 'world religions' and the drip drip drip of moral relativism.
This is not I might add the educational diet of the divvy classes, but frighteningly the fare that is being doled out to what I would say is an average 12 year old.
It's the sort of thing that makes home-schooling look very attractive. Her education is very thin gruel when compared to what I got at that age, and I wasn't in the top stream far from it. She has no knowledge of the building blocks of our culture, no knowledge of Greek myths; no background knowledge of the bible; no idea how how language is constructed; or anything about the Romans; and something that gives me a lot of concern, no proper knowledge of her own countries history. These are all things that I a low stream pupil in a comprehensive was taught. That they are not being taught now is a terrible indictment on our education system. We are letting down a generation and removing from them much that is necessary and beautiful. That is a terrible crime to do to a child and worse to do it to cohort after cohort of children.
This poor girl is getting a completely content free education, it is only the Scouts who are teaching her practical stuff like science and maths and the stuff you need as educational building blocks.
The fact that for this child the Scouts are doing what the schools should be doing is something that we should be very ashamed of.
I'll bet no body told them what happens to all the nice animals later...
ReplyDeleteSome sxchool pupils do farming for real:
ReplyDeletehttp://elmsschool.co.uk/school-life/the-farm/
That's 'school'.
ReplyDeleteDoh!
I was only 12 years old when I shot my first bull calf. I skinned and paunched it, too. That's what live-stock farming is all about. Raising stock to kill it and sell it.
ReplyDeleteWhat F211 said. Plus.
ReplyDeleteWe're raising imbeciles... Dolphin loving vegans, frightened the sky might catch fire at any moment because some selfish pensioners are putting their heating on.
Maths, English and History? Oh that's so last century darlings.
"Why waste time and money taking kids to pretend farms to show them this, just tell them, it worked for me."
ReplyDeleteModern kids seem to have a problem retaining information...
And F211 is right, it's a tick-box on the head's schedule.
"School visits like this seem to be taking the place of teaching."
To be fair, I'd want to get out for a while too, all that long hours, no holidays culture.
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What?
"Maths, English and History? Oh that's so last century darlings."
Sadly so. You can see it on the quiz shows, when they have teenagers competing. Their classical knowledge is simply non-existent.
And... pigs?
ReplyDeleteNo pigs?
Why ever could THAT be then?
Will they show them pigs? Tell them how ham kept the peasants alive, recycled waste? Oops, la whole heap of absentees!
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