[Nobar King]

Kids can learn to spell by themselves:

Learning spelling lists too 'distressing' for kids: UK school

October 3, 2008 -

A British primary school has axed spelling homework because students find it "distressing" to learn lists. Children at the Whitminster Church of England Primary, in Gloucestershire, will no longer be given a short list of words to learn each week because staff believe it can leave them feeling like failures, the Mail Online reports.

Headmistress Debbie Marklove, whose school has just over 100 pupils aged four to 11, has invited parents to a meeting to explain her reasons. Earlier, in a newsletter, she told parents: "You will notice that the children will not be given spelling lists to learn over the week. "We have taken the decision to stop spelling as homework as it is felt that although children may learn them perfectly at home they are often unable to use them in their daily written work. "Also many children find this activity unnecessarily distressing."

She said spelling lists were sometimes simply tests of memory. If kids were able to get four out of five right at home with the parents, but only one out of five right in the class room, it could lead to a sense of failure, she said. She said the school continued to teach spelling during class. A spokesman for the school said no parents had complained about the policy.

But Nick Seaton, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, said the decision would come back to back to haunt her pupils as some spellings, particularly irregular words, needed to be learned. "Youngsters will feel a sense of failure more strongly when they go into the world of work and can't produce a letter or a report for their employers," he said.

What will they cut back on next, homework? Tests? Maybe let the parents come to school with the kids to hold their hands?

Maybe the problem is with the teachers. Do they even need to be accredited to teach over there? Maybe it's just some stupid high school dropouts teaching third grade.

I can understand why so many send their kids to Catholic school even if they don't believe in that, just for the education. Just wait, 20 or 30 years from now how English will look in England. They may just have to adopt txtspk to keep everything from falling apart.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

I knew how to spell "Habakkuk" when I was 4 years old. My father, Pastor Lamentations Flint made sure I could spell the title of each and every book of the Holy Bible by the time I was 5, thank you very much.

All the schools in Godless Europe do is teach socialism and how "groovy" it is to be queer.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Perhaps they need to free up more time to teach first-graders how to use condoms, or whatever it is they are willing to teach over there.

[Talitha]

Just goes to show that Home-school is best

Daddy taught me how to take apart and clean a Handgun by age 5 and I moved on to bigger stuff by age 12.
I could hit a wiccan at 500 yards by 13, Praise Jesus

[Herr_Doktor Phd.]

You would think it would be common sense for the Godless wraiths in Blighty to learn to deal with failure....

[Nobar King]

Is this the same school?

School says 'school' too negative a name


SHEFFIELD, England, Jan. 4 (UPI) --
A new primary school in Britain has decided against calling itself a "school" because the word is too negative. "One reason was many of the parents of the children here had very negative connotations of school," said head teacher Linda Kingdon, calling Watercliffe Meadow "a place for learning." Watercliffe Meadow, which opens Monday, also will ban whistles, bells and locked doors, said Kingdon, noting children will be encouraged to wear soft shoes indoors to feel more comfortable, The Telegraph reported Sunday. "We wanted to de-institutionalize the place and bring the school closer to real life," she said.

Not everyone is in favor of Watercliffe Meadow's decisions. "We all know that they are going to be going to a school whatever you call it," said Marie Clair, spokeswoman for the Campaign for Plain English, a group that opposes the use of "gobbledygook" in public life in Britain.

Pretty soon the schools in Britain are going to be barely good enough to train politicians.

[Pastor Al E Pistle]

Originally Posted by Nobar King

Is this the same school?Pretty soon the schools in Britain are going to be barely good enough to train politicians.

I'm sorry Brother, but I'm having a hard time believing any of this. If it's true, it can only be a terrorist plot to dumb-down the English....if that's even possible.

Next well be reading that history and math are 'too complicated' to learn, so they won't be teaching that in sch....the place of not learning.

[Nobar King]

Bob Geldof discovered gravity, say British children

The findings emerged from a study of 5,000 children, which revealed most do not have a clue about basic historical facts.

Why am I not surprised anymore?

[Oakland "Reb" Griner]

Not to be contrary, but since they pronounce "Featheringstonehaugh" as "fan-shaw", it would appear spelling is pretty much a lost art in Great
Britain these days.

[angels]

Originally Posted by Metatron13

Not to be contrary, but since they pronounce "Featheringstonehaugh" as "fan-shaw", it would appear spelling is pretty much a lost art in Great
Britain these days.

I totally agree. People here actually write as they spell. It's incoherent and lazy. But British people are lazy. Always looking for the easy way to do things. I've heard this saying so often here.
"Put off today what can be attempted tomorrow". And the children here are more interested in hanging out in shopping centres, smoking, drinking and taking the drugs, than going to school. Teenage pregnancies are the highest in Europe. Examinations are being made easier. Stupid England . !! Oh most definately, and totally Godless too.

[Nobar King]

But, you're a smoking angel?

[angels]

Originally Posted by Nobar King

But, you're a smoking angel?

Someone put my little smoking angel in for me. She's a smoking angel but I'm not Mr. King.

[Nobar King]

Thanks for clearing that up.

[angels]

Originally Posted by Nobar King

Thanks for clearing that up.

You are most welcome.

[Nobar King]

Sister Rachel uncovered this news item where the U.K. now admits to the scheme to dumb down Language training:
The Truth is out! Brit Politician admits Dyslexia is a Myth!
If I was a child growing up in the U.K. I would feel like I was being ripped off by the education system for not being able to teach standard English.