Education
End state funding for religion or religious schools.
Use the voucher system. Whereby parents can support any secular school they wish or use the voucher for resources supporting home education.
Children (and adults) to have access to high quality classes, both academic and practically based. The exam system makes most children fail. That's an awful thing to do to a child and unnecessary. All children should be able to excel during their education and feel high self-esteem and worth. That does not happen by failing exams or getting low grades. The only reasons for failure are either the teaching is poor, the student needs special help and support or the exam is not appropriate for that child.
Many children do not benefit from sitting at a desk in a room with 30 other children the same age. Some children may thrive in that environment. There are many alternatives to the classroom, forest schools, practical and outdoor lessons.
End extra judicial punishments in schools e.g. detentions. If a child or any student is disruptive in a lesson, they should be asked to leave and offered more appropriate classes or activities. Disruptive and violent behaviour may be a cry for help - that needs to be addressed.
Schools are left over from the industrial revolution. They were and continue to be used as both childcare and often a way of teaching discipline and obedience suitable for an old fashioned work place. We still need childcare but we need creative and free thinking children. So we need to design our education system to be diverse to cater for every child.
Entrepreneurial Loans
These would be given to people as an alternative to a student loan. This is so that innovative and other new businesses can start, especially for people without the benefit of savings or family loans.
End state funding for religion or religious schools.
Use the voucher system. Whereby parents can support any secular school they wish or use the voucher for resources supporting home education.
Children (and adults) to have access to high quality classes, both academic and practically based. The exam system makes most children fail. That's an awful thing to do to a child and unnecessary. All children should be able to excel during their education and feel high self-esteem and worth. That does not happen by failing exams or getting low grades. The only reasons for failure are either the teaching is poor, the student needs special help and support or the exam is not appropriate for that child.
Many children do not benefit from sitting at a desk in a room with 30 other children the same age. Some children may thrive in that environment. There are many alternatives to the classroom, forest schools, practical and outdoor lessons.
End extra judicial punishments in schools e.g. detentions. If a child or any student is disruptive in a lesson, they should be asked to leave and offered more appropriate classes or activities. Disruptive and violent behaviour may be a cry for help - that needs to be addressed.
Schools are left over from the industrial revolution. They were and continue to be used as both childcare and often a way of teaching discipline and obedience suitable for an old fashioned work place. We still need childcare but we need creative and free thinking children. So we need to design our education system to be diverse to cater for every child.
Entrepreneurial Loans
These would be given to people as an alternative to a student loan. This is so that innovative and other new businesses can start, especially for people without the benefit of savings or family loans.