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School to offer 24-hour learning
A British school with a high truancy rate has decided
to shift to a 24-hour schedule, allowing students to
show up when they please or to learn on-line. Under
the proposal by head teacher Cheryl Heron, Bridgemary
Community Sports College in Gosport near Portsmouth
will be open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., The Telegraph
reports. On-line mentoring will be available through
the night. "Why must teaching only be conducted in
a classroom? It is possible to teach a child without
him or her ever regularly setting foot inside a school,"
Heron said. "We are talking about schools changing to
meet the needs of children rather than requiring children
to fit in with the conventional school year, which dates
back to agrarian times." Heron believes that many
truants skip school because they are bored. She argues
that allowing students to set their own schedules can
alleviate that boredom. When Heron became head of
Bridgemary in 2001, the school was classified as a
failing one. Since then the school has boosted the
pass rate on GCSE exams from 19 percent to 35 percent.
Alright all you English peoples, tell me does community college mean the same thing in England as it does in America? Here if one goes to community college, one tipiclly has to pay for that education. Historically speaking these attendees arn't children in the sense that the majority of people attending community college are over the age of 18. Our community colleges also offer corrispondance, or on line corses to suit the needs of students. So, what's the deal, I am confused.
D-
Sorry, if I read this correctly, I cannot agree. (As if they cared.)
What's the message here: if you rebel and break the rules, well then we'll just change the rules to meet your conditions.
This is a lousy message to send to kids. Employers don't do it, the courts don't do it, and your friends, family and social acquaintances don't do it; so why should the schools do it?
Just my thoughts.
Bob
Bob, I agree. I thought the same thing as I was reading. All this seems to do is send a message to children, saying, "If you dont' want to follow the rules, and come to school, then we'll do what we can to best fit your needs and interest." I don't like it. I think it would just give kids more opportunity to slack off, and think that it's okay for them to not want to do certain things. If they dont' want to do particular things, then everyone else, will do everything they can to make sure that everything is going their way, and it shouldn't be like that. Life isn't like that, so a school shouldn't teach children this. They'll grow up thinking that if there's something not going the way they want it to, then they can just give up, and wait for someone else to do something about it for them.
post 3 and 4 I guess we should still have segrated bathrooms then? If we always followed the rules then things like the sit in at the wollworth lunch counter never would have happened, and we'd still have legalized segregation and descrimination. The internet is changing the way society is changing and maybe we should adapt our current methods to that?
um, so in the working world there 3 shifs to choose from to fit into your life style, so why can't the schools do it too?
Not every job has three different shifts, in fact most don't. So maybe we should ask why they don't conform to their employees needs? Maybe it's because there's plenty of people willing and able to work under the current conditions.
I'm not saying don't change the school schedule, I'm saying don't change it to coddle to someone who refused to fit in otherwise. It has nothing to do with the schedule, it has to do with the reason the schedule was set.
so why was the schedule made like that? and things change, and believe me there are more 2ed and 3rd shiffs then you think.
DF, to answer your question about community colleges in U.S, they are generally colleges that are less expensive than major universities and generally offer programs in which you can graduate with a degree in two years or less as opposed to four years.