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Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives

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204 points joveian | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 17:36 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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MattPalmer1086 ◴[16 Oct 24 18:25 UTC] No.41862123[source]▶
Sounds like a great idea.

In England, I've seen education get consistently more rigid and inflexible over the years. All about tests, tests and more tests. Teachers leave the profession, children turn off. And as it consistently fails to produce better results, the answer is always to do more of what has failed.

Bring something like this to England, please!

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timthorn ◴[16 Oct 24 20:09 UTC] No.41863314[source]▶
> it consistently fails to produce better results

The performance of the English education system has improved markedly over the past couple of decades. At least, as measured by tests!

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1. dijksterhuis ◴[16 Oct 24 20:47 UTC] No.41863707[source]▶
my physics A level teacher did something really interesting with us.

we spent a whole class looking at an old O Level question from an exam.

all of us, including the boffins in the class, were completely stumped by it.

he explained it to us at the end, but it did solidify an appreciation in me that, at least 20ish years ago, we definitely had it easier than folks before us.