[Elliot]

Originally Posted by Ant.

okay I was sorta understanding what you were saying but 'destroying any sense of individuality' seems really extreme like... I don't feel unique walking around in jeans and a shirt rather than in a uniform. A lot of people feel that way but meh I guess it depends on the person

Well yeah, of course they want to look good It'd be ideal if they could keep it up 24/7 but they can't. Uniform is just a simple rule and while it can be overly strict, it isn't necessarily a bad thing. That can be controlled, whereas the pressures teacher's face can't always. Do you have a job? If you do, do you make a conscious effort to be focused and 'better' than you are when you're not around them? I certainly do. It's no different for teachers


I don't really understand your point? The whole point of school is to pass the exams. The advice always is do well in your exams rather than learning for the hell of it. And past papers are probably the best resource for revision for most people because it identifies weak areas and also practice exam technique which is what will get you the grades. That applies to most, if not 'all' schools. In the end, learning cell functions is fine and dandy, but would they always explicitly state "name this organelle" and "where does aerobic respiration occur in cells?". They'd phrase it in questions which make you think about what it's asking you for and whatever you get wrong you can learn there and then - within ten minutes you can cover exam technique, what you do and don't know, and how to improve on a topic, whereas going through it again in a lesson would only waste time. I'm sincerely hoping I'm not missing what point you're trying to make, I'm just a tad confused? Are you suggesting teachers don't teach anymore and make you teach yourself? If that's the case this part was completely irrelevant but yeah. idk what you mean

I was trying to relay the uniform issue to a wider problem with the education system that I have huge problems with. Didn’t wanna go too deep since debates here never go anywhere and usually just end in arguments and frustration but w/e

I think the education system in this country is awful. I think the philosophy behind the education system is abhorrent. I think the implementation of it is even worse. I think uniform plays into some of the major toxicity in the institutionalisation philosophy that plagues pretty much all public schools, and any ounce of benifit from uniforms is trivialised by the fact that they aren’t enforced in college and uni for some reason lol.

I can understand my point about lessons and exam prep not going over well, maybe you didn’t have similar experiences? The teaching at my school was awful and it ironically didn’t have much to do with the actual teachers. A lot of the teachers were being pressured by higher ups to skip units to start exam prep, continually give out and mark past papers and homework instead of plan lessons, ignore entire syllabuses because they ‘probably won’t be in this years exam’ . Less engaging with a lesson and more copying out of books over and over and doing hundreds of past papers, you know? I vented about this on another forum and a lot of people my age had similar experiences, some even worse cases of the school being really desperate for certain grade quotas. One apparently had the maths teacher who looked at the exam of that year like a week before they had to do it, and told the students what to study for that week knowing what will be in it lol, and nobody cared or complained because they all did really well.

I do think there are some good schools out there, but for the most part it just seems to me that the people that work at these places are more bothered about numbers than the well-being and education of the thousands of students who go there, and nobody with any power ever bothers questioning it because of the good grades and good ofsted meetings