QUOTE (Branston Pickle @ Aug 16 2009, 04:09 PM)
But then wouldn't it stop being private education? Possibly the answer is to see what the private sector is doing differently and then adopt it to the state system. However, manners in children do seem to depend not on money or class, but on how well the parents bring that child up.
In total agreement. The bottom line is that the whole wretched system needs a kick in the backside. I am sure there are a number of initiatives that could quite easily be adopted from the private sector without compromising their "social" responsibilities.
The main problem is that this matter has been debated for as long as I can remember ( and there is nothing wrong with my long term memory ) and nothing is done and another generation is lost.
The intellectual stimuli will prevail , the bright will succeed, but to those who do not have the necessary environment to encourage do we just say sorry we can do no more .
To a degree this is one of those topics that is to large to encompass in a local forum but I am encouraged that most contributors have faith in our youngsters if not the system that is their "Alma Mater"