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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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soperj ◴[16 Oct 24 18:37 UTC] No.41862270[source]▶
Sounds like Bill Gates has gotten a hold of your school system as well.
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sixo ◴[16 Oct 24 18:44 UTC] No.41862365[source]▶
sounds like you have something to say but can't be bothered to say it
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1. soperj ◴[16 Oct 24 21:24 UTC] No.41863986{3}[source]▶
Gates Foundation put an outsized amount of money into getting support for Common Core, standardized testing and merit pay for teachers.

- https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/got-dough-how-billio...