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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: 0.202s | 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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SoftTalker ◴[16 Oct 24 20:47 UTC] No.41863706[source]▶
> tests, tests and more tests

Same in the USA. The old student question "will this be on the test?" is now also asked by teachers and administrators. If the answer is "no" they skip it.

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1. watwut ◴[17 Oct 24 10:50 UTC] No.41868312[source]▶
The "will I be punished for not putting additional work into this or can I go watch a movie" is reasonable question.