Primary schools in the UK are now abandoning traditional subjects in favour of themes as chocolate and space travel.
The critics say the pupils will be ill equipped for secondary level where teaching is more subject based, whilst the supporters say that teachers are more enthusiastic since they are the ones devising the lessons.
Being a child of the 1970’s and growing up in quite "red" era I have very mixed feelings about this. How much did we really learn by sitting in the big pillows on the floor talking about flowers? Or tossing small beanbags in different sized buckets learning math? To me it seems like we never really got prepared for the real world. Our world was just soft and fluffy, so of course starting secondary level was hard for most of us. Suddenly we were expected to learn something and there were demands. Rough world… But after a while you actually realised that this was for your own good and somehow we survived and turned into pretty decent young adults.
Like so many other things I guess, somewhere in the middle or a mix of things is always best. But knowing about chocolate can never be wrong…
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