In the never-ending rush to embrace the latest educational orthodoxy, teachers - especially senior management - are inclined to forget (or dismiss) the idea that their charges are, first and foremost, young animals and are thus programmed to carry out the seven key processes of life: growing, sensing their environment, moving, breathing, eating, excreting and reproducing.
Schools need to make adequate provision for numbers 1-6 (while assiduously discouraging number 7) - personally, I find it helps to have had past experience dealing with livestock - but Heads generally have their minds on the sort of shiny projects that will look good on the school website (and their own CVs) rather than mundane things like lavatories.
Take proper care of the fundamentals, one might say, and the rest will follow.
In the never-ending rush to embrace the latest educational orthodoxy, teachers - especially senior management - are inclined to forget (or dismiss) the idea that their charges are, first and foremost, young animals and are thus programmed to carry out the seven key processes of life: growing, sensing their environment, moving, breathing, eating, excreting and reproducing.
ReplyDeleteSchools need to make adequate provision for numbers 1-6 (while assiduously discouraging number 7) - personally, I find it helps to have had past experience dealing with livestock - but Heads generally have their minds on the sort of shiny projects that will look good on the school website (and their own CVs) rather than mundane things like lavatories.
Take proper care of the fundamentals, one might say, and the rest will follow.
"...personally, I find it helps to have had past experience dealing with livestock..."
ReplyDeleteCattle prods in schools could be the way forward! 😂