2022-07-03
Everybody has their own recollection of their schooldays and mine are neither particularly happy, particularly sad, nor particularly boring.
Still, it has to be said that as far as my offspring were concerned, one of them seemed to thrive quite well whilst the other was never properly engaged.
So my experience of schooling in the UK is decidedly mixed.
Still, in these days where the government is ever more involved in the upbringing of our children, whether through child-care, school, social services, local councils' provision of sporting / other facilities, adult education, or "uni", there are those who think that government-inspired influence over our off-spring is becoming decidedly overbearing.
Will Loyd writing in Unherd paints a broad-brush picture that is very plausible and may be accurate for many.
He was beaten to the punch however by David Adelman, author of "School: No Place For Children" who presented his case at the 2019 Glastonbury Symposium:
(58 minutes)
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Whilst outright abolition of schools may be a step too far, maybe we should the thinking about how the overbearing reach of central bureaucracy should be dismantled.
BTW - This year's Symposium is scheduled for Fri 22 - Sun 24 July 
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