Thomas Deacon City Academy
07/06/07 15:00
I had been meaning to write something
about this place since the little piece that reached the news
about 'the school without a
playground',
which was just another of those mind-boggling examples of how the
school system fails to treat pupils like human beings (though
Mirinda informed me most vehemently yesterday that you definitely
don't call it 'playtime' any more once you get to secondary school,
so why is it still called a 'playground'?). So then Dunk just sent
me a link to The Fraud Academy with an article about city academies in
general, and some comments about Thomas
Deacon specifically, and how the pupils will
not have breaks between lessons:
"What will the children do in their breaks? Simple. There won't be any. The head, Alan McMurdo, says they can drink water while they learn. Actually, what he said was, "[Pupils] will be able to hydrate during the learning experience." That's the way these people talk."
I am now a bit concerned that I am not able to ensure that my children are adequately hydrated without access to a qualified teacher to ensure they are doing it properly and at regular enough intervals. Maybe I can just spend the next week finding more and more ridiculous examples of 'school speak'.
"What will the children do in their breaks? Simple. There won't be any. The head, Alan McMurdo, says they can drink water while they learn. Actually, what he said was, "[Pupils] will be able to hydrate during the learning experience." That's the way these people talk."
I am now a bit concerned that I am not able to ensure that my children are adequately hydrated without access to a qualified teacher to ensure they are doing it properly and at regular enough intervals. Maybe I can just spend the next week finding more and more ridiculous examples of 'school speak'.