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Wednesday December 23, 2009 11:44 by Brendan Butler 086 4054984
Religious Ethos Has the term 'religious ethos' any substance in fact .If it is claimed to be a major factor in the life of a school then let it be evaluated in terms of outcome just as we have league tables in terms of academic achievement. The Just school or just school |
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People leave school with a pattern of behaviour which involves shutting up, deferring to authority no matter what, and pretending to do what they are told while they secretely realise that the only way to survive in such a system is to be sneaky because fair play does not exist. Hence they emerge as self serving, sneaky people who have no community value system. A whole community of such people is a very unpleasant prospect but that is what we had throughout the celtic tiger.
In child rearing the cardinal sin (sic) is inconsistency and unfairness in the rules. Yet the church reared our children with a mixture of guilt, hypocrisy and the feeling that might is right. It's time we looked at education again, not as a way of socialising our kids to fit in, but as a way of creating whole human beings who have the tools to transform our society into something better
I can't believe what I'm reading here! I'm someone who went through the secondary school system and came out with nothing! I was an altar boy, I was an an honours student till 3rd year. I went back to college when I just became a mature student, I am now a teacher. My problems were not created in secondary school, how could they? Your in a class for 35-45mins a day with a teacher, how is that the school systems fault? And also when I was faling miserably in the last few years of school (due to my home situation) it was those who had the confidence and courage to ask questions that went on to college, these were the same lads that had teachers as parents, marriages that stayed together ,belier in the system to go on.This post is another example of the weakness in our society, blame everyone else, it's there fault! I come from a family that spent most of their life on welfare by the way, if you want to have a debate lets do it, lets do it now!
I just want to support muinteoir's assertion that stability in family life is a decisive factor in learning progress by school students. A couple of weeks ago I heard Fintan O'Toole of the IT saying on radio that his bus driving dad brought him regularly to the public library during his childhood. O'Toole was the only school leaver on his road in Crumlin who went to university. My recipe for achieving at school and afterwards is a happy stable home with lots of reading matter brought into the house by both parents.