Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 8604654)

Religious schools in general have had a patchy reputation, I remember friends locally that went to a religious school, they were either whacked or touched up.
That said I sent my own son to a religious school, suckered in by the whole caring, family like vibe and he was bullied by a teacher for a year... :/
It has simply coloured my view further, how is it getting progressively worse and not better no lessons are being learnt are they? (npi) makes you wonder if it is the fear of a backlash for the whistleblowers or they are paying someone off.

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock (Post 8604708)

Tbf Teachers can bully students in all sorts of different School environments, that's not just Faith Schools that have that problem.

Teachers need to care more about the kids, in my Primary School in particular the bullies used to get the treats while the well behaved kids used to get nothing.

Also in Secondry School I always suspected that certain people used to cheat their Exams as they was getting higher scores than me and they was thick as ****.

Originally Posted by Dezzy (Post 8593338)

Faith based schools shouldn't be a thing, religion should be taught in RE in a balanced impartial matter. Religion should never form the backbone of an education facility.

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier (Post 8604673)

Like I said Ammi, you more or less follow / respect the "status quo of life" so you're never going to understand what I'm saying. I find it depressing that schools are essentially factories designed to churn out "productive citizens", worker bees who get the "best job they can" then do that for 50 years, retire for 10, then die.

It doesn't matter whether bright kids go through faster or attain more and get jobs which require more qualifications, or if little Billy's nin-academic strengths are identified so that he can get a good and productive non-academic job... It's all geared towards the same thing. Prepping kids to grow up and work themselves into the grave.

Essentially my problem is that I don't think there's enough time for kids to just be kids. I don't think the issue is that Sally Smith is stuck on Book B7 of the Blue series when she should be on C1 Orange. I think the issue is that kids are lined up, homogenised and prepped to be cogs in a crappy machine instead of being given any time at all to explore, be curious, and learn in . Like you said, even if you choose to home school, you still "have to" follow the basic curriculum. You CAN'T even opt out. We're herded into these structured little factories at 5 years old, moulded and drilled into "something productive", and we don't leave the production line until we retire. Which is now aged 70. So basically dead.

Originally Posted by Kizzy (Post 8604715)

I didn't say it was, with it being a faith school however my expectations for more social/spiritual education were higher.