Friday, July 29, 2005

Education that isn't compulsory

I have just heard that my old secondary school called Gillbrook has just failed an inspection. They didn't just fail. They did much worse. They did so bad that all the teachers have been fired and they have to reapply for their job. I can't find the article that was in the paper but here is the inspectors report.

The main thing that was wrong was the discipline. Not surprised really. Teachers weren't in charge. the pupils used to throw books, lock teachers in cupboards and sometimes assault them.
Its a pity. I heard it started to go down hill when the new head teacher started (1 year before I started the school).
I hope my old tutor keeps his job. he was a good teacher. he was the one that got locked in the cupboard.

I hope they fire some of the insane teachers like the religious education teacher who thought she had seen a faery and that there are angels with us all the time both good and bad fighting over us.

There is a simple solution to all of this. All you have to do is uncompulsorise secondary school education. At the moment school is a prison. There is no doubt about that. Uncompulsorise school and the troublemakers will leave allowing the good ones to stay and try to learn. Why should we be made to go to school? If we don't want to learn why should we be made to?

Education should be free but not compulsory. It should be up to the person who is getting the education if he or she wants it.

Think about it. Without compulsory education school would be better. The children there would actually try and learn because they have a choice to either leave or learn and behave. I don't see how this could be bad however to stop children coming to school for one lesson and leaving when there is another they should be made to sign up for the year. If they sign up then sign out of school they will not be able to sign up again until the start of the month. If they keep signing in and out they will be stopped from messing the school about and be made to sign one thing. If they choose not to sign up then they will have to wait 1 year before they can start again.

There may still be disruptive pupils but if they are too disruptive they will just lose their right to free education for the rest of the year. Children that want to learn shouldn't be disrupted from doing so.

I don't see a problem with this. Does anyone see a problem with this?

2 comments:

Adrian said...

It is commonly believed an uneducated population commits more crime. Remove from someone the skills to earn a living and they will find one through other means.

youdontknowme said...

We are not removing them though. It would be their choice whether they want an education or not. Who do you think the teenage criminnals are? they are the ones that disrupt the classroom so they would commit crime anyway.

If they did commit crime they should be given the punishments which I said in other posts.