Sathius005
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Do you think the Board of Studies is fatally flawed?
Failure is a part of life you must get used to it.
Source: 2UE
I want to start with the word fail. The word fail is not nice. You call someone a failure, it’s not nice. You want to be success. You want to strive not to be a failure. It’s confronting isn’t it when you fail. The word fail is too hard to say these days. People fail at high school, people fail at university and people fail at the workplace. It’s the word not used. Win and lose an interesting concept. You win a race or you lose a race. Too hard to deal with in today’s rough and tumble society. Would you want to live in a world where no one wins or loses? This is what is starting to emerge out of our educational system. Have you been told a kid failed in maths in the HSC? Have you been told a kid didn’t win they just came second or third or 170th? Schools in NSW have banned the word fail because it’s too hard to deal with in our dog eat dog world. The Board of Studies says it’s too hard for children to understand i.e. the idea of failure and success. Schools in Melbourne have banned some games such as Touch Football and hide/ seek because of what they say “the children don’t have good coping/ self management skills/ can’t control their emotions. Do children in high school have trouble controlling their emotions when they fail? Do you think I am making this up? This is in the Herald Sun in Melbourne. Schools are resorting to banning games because the children can’t share or handle losing. Over protective parents have been blamed for the lack of resilience in our schools and parents are starting to say that “not winning is not such a bad thing.” So we ban the game? An article in the Daily Telegraph says that NSW High School students will be told to market themselves as a brand so that they have a better chance of winning a job. I will make an observation; Australian high schools are leaving with poor results compared to the rest of the world.
Is this the dumbest generation in terms of our education system we have produced in Australia compared to the rest of the world? Why is our education system going backward? Is the Better Schools reform of the Gillard government going to be a failure? Are we a clever country?
Many Teachers think this is just not good enough. A teacher called Kevin failed at university. Kevin says “it was a good thing and is the reason why I am where I am today. You need to be resilient and get up again. There’s the saying you get back on the horse/ bicycle if you fall off. You have to reflect on life and where you went wrong. A little fear is not a bad thing. That’s all part of growing up. The problem is that at school we have banned a lot of games and children are not learning about winning and losing. As a consequence these children are not prepared for the real world. The Australian High School system is becoming a soft touch system. The education system in Australia says ‘not achieved’ rather than saying ‘fail.”
Failure is a part of life you must get used to it.
Source: 2UE
I want to start with the word fail. The word fail is not nice. You call someone a failure, it’s not nice. You want to be success. You want to strive not to be a failure. It’s confronting isn’t it when you fail. The word fail is too hard to say these days. People fail at high school, people fail at university and people fail at the workplace. It’s the word not used. Win and lose an interesting concept. You win a race or you lose a race. Too hard to deal with in today’s rough and tumble society. Would you want to live in a world where no one wins or loses? This is what is starting to emerge out of our educational system. Have you been told a kid failed in maths in the HSC? Have you been told a kid didn’t win they just came second or third or 170th? Schools in NSW have banned the word fail because it’s too hard to deal with in our dog eat dog world. The Board of Studies says it’s too hard for children to understand i.e. the idea of failure and success. Schools in Melbourne have banned some games such as Touch Football and hide/ seek because of what they say “the children don’t have good coping/ self management skills/ can’t control their emotions. Do children in high school have trouble controlling their emotions when they fail? Do you think I am making this up? This is in the Herald Sun in Melbourne. Schools are resorting to banning games because the children can’t share or handle losing. Over protective parents have been blamed for the lack of resilience in our schools and parents are starting to say that “not winning is not such a bad thing.” So we ban the game? An article in the Daily Telegraph says that NSW High School students will be told to market themselves as a brand so that they have a better chance of winning a job. I will make an observation; Australian high schools are leaving with poor results compared to the rest of the world.
Is this the dumbest generation in terms of our education system we have produced in Australia compared to the rest of the world? Why is our education system going backward? Is the Better Schools reform of the Gillard government going to be a failure? Are we a clever country?
Many Teachers think this is just not good enough. A teacher called Kevin failed at university. Kevin says “it was a good thing and is the reason why I am where I am today. You need to be resilient and get up again. There’s the saying you get back on the horse/ bicycle if you fall off. You have to reflect on life and where you went wrong. A little fear is not a bad thing. That’s all part of growing up. The problem is that at school we have banned a lot of games and children are not learning about winning and losing. As a consequence these children are not prepared for the real world. The Australian High School system is becoming a soft touch system. The education system in Australia says ‘not achieved’ rather than saying ‘fail.”
