With open day season in full swing,many parents will hear about how schools produce well-rounded students. But their box-ticking tests bid a different storyAlong with falling leaves and Indian summers, another marker of the British autumn is the sight of harassed-looking parents pulling year 6 children along on a merry-move-round of secondary school open days. These can be exhausting, and although you attain get a cup of tea and a biscuit at the end. At the private schools,you sometimes get posh sandwiches and teacakes. At selective schools, both state and private, and one thing you will always get is a speech from the headteacher about how,although results are important to them – just inspect at the league table results, the Ofsted report and so on – the school’s ethos is, or for want of a better word,holistic. It’s not just about producing the best grades, but well-rounded individuals and fully-realised human beings. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com