This has gone way off-topic, and really needs to be moved to luv-talk please. thanks, / Brett On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Roger <arelem@bigpond.com> wrote:
On 20/11/12 16:49, Russell Coker wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
English lit, now that is a subject that's pure child-minding. Should go back to teaching rhetoric and grammar. The subject "English" should be about blogging, email, twitter, SMS, and writing technical documents - with probably about that order of importance.
If we are going to maintain the illusion that school is teaching skills that are relevant to work then we should be able to have schools implement practices that work in a commercial environment. So... how to spend all day on facebook while pretending to use word? They cover that in the "IT" classes. True.
Except, as I understand the changes to the Australian curriculum from day one next year, IT is no longer a subject. It is/was is so dumbed down that most kids have been doing the subject matter as part of their social life. School just rehashes what they know, teachers are behind the times by 5 years or more and the average to brighter kids are bored out of their brains. From next year, every teacher from sport, English, math and science and social sciences will have to teach IT. History is now history of Asia and aborigines, not history of Australia. They're not even maintaining the illusion. Grammar is off the table as is spelling.
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