The strictest state school in Britain

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....e-school-Britain.html

Should all our state schools be modelled on this one?

[LazyGun]

Bit early to say, wouldn't you think? Whether or not schools should be modelled on this one depends very much on its results - and since the school is barely a year old there is no track record to judge it against.

Some of the initiatives sound very good, but personally I fail to see the value of emphasising a teaching in Latin.

[douglas9401]

Seems fair enough to me.

[jno]

I'm all in favour of Latin, but I can't see why it should be compulsory and Chinese (say) not.

[Bazile]

Compulsory Latin ? - what the hell for ?

[bazwillrun]

You mean run as a school should be run instead of all the mamby pamby leftie nonsense that most schools have allowed to infect themselves with.

[Mosaic]

I could not agree more with the basic premiss on which this school is set up: they choose which child attends and will expel any who fail to conform. There is a queue waiting to replace any child lost from the school roll.
Kids and parents want them to be there and to achieve well. What could be better?
Doesn't answer the question of what we do with the crazies who want to run around the corridors, throw chairs in lessons and fight. But the present system isn't solving that issue either. At least this way, the ones who want to learn can.

[Mosaic]

Bazile - I would suggest that the logic involved in learning latin is good mental training in itself. Acquiring a bit of latin vocab also puts you at an advantage fiinding your way through Spanish, French and Italian. And pharmacies.

[jno]

and if all schools choose the pupils they want? The best ones get chosen fifty times over, the rest not at all - after all, where's the benefit (to the school) of taking in a pupil who might not pass exams?

[Mosaic]

In reality Jno don't you think it would rather be a case of certain schools being rushed by applicants?

[sandyRoe]

And a knowledge of Latin is invaluable if one wants to enter a seminary later.

[pdq1]

I don't like the words Free School...does it mean nothing to pay or does it mean any religion or what. What's the difference between Free Schools and Comprehensives.

If Free schools are so superior why not rename all Comprehensives.

[Mosaic]

...or to be a judge....according to that Peter Cook & Dudley moore sketch anyway

[jno]

rushed by applicants' parents, no doubt. But a state-run education system has to teach everyone, not just the ones with hair the right length.

[Mosaic]

PDQ, the comprehensive school movement was born of the ideals of post-war Britain to create a meritocracy with equal access to opportunity irrespective of wealth or poverty.
Free schools are an invention of the coalition government from 2010 intended to circumvent restrictive rules imposed by central and local governemtn on the running of comprehensive schols, including teachers pay and conditions, curriculum choice and rights of local parents to send their child to a specific school.

[sandyRoe]

To go off topic for a second, who was it gave their approval to 'Approved Schools'?

[chrissa1]

Discipline, discipline, discipline. There is not enough of it in schools these days.

I was taught Latin and although it is not necessary in today's world, it broadens your education.

[anotheoldgit]

sandyRoe

/// To go off topic for a second, who was it gave their approval to 'Approved Schools'? ///

The National Government, 1933.

Like National Service they should never have been discontinued.

[Ann]

This school sounds EXACTLY the same as the Grammar School I went to from 1959 - mid 60s .......... strict rules never hurt anyone.

[DTCwordfan]

Aaah, "The AOG School of Excellence":

http://s0.geograph.or...1/017100_e78b98aa.jpg

Right good it is too. Latin compulsory and definitely no Arabic or Urdu and probably no German offered either. Mandarin optional and doubtful - in fact no languages at all as the world should speak English only.

[anotheoldgit]

DTcrosswordfan

/// Aaah, "The AOG School of Excellence": ///

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

But once again apart from your "The AOG School of Excellence" you are once again incorrect on all counts.

1/ This is the correct view of the school

http://i.dailymail.co...005DC-854_634x399.jpg

2/ Actually, 50 per cent of the intake have English as an additional language, and 35 per cent are black, Asian or minority ethnic. A quarter of the pupils are eligible for free school
dinners.