Robbie has a bone to pick with the education secretary
How, Mr Gove, can you be so ignorant of the value of education? #askgove
You’re reforming education to become a fragmented, distorted version of what it was – a stereotyped conclusion, formed from a parade of pointless charts and data. The idea that the academic nurtures economic prosperity is a fickle one, one that forgets the mentoring of the individual and learning and focuses on squeezing pennies from creative prospects. Society is being broken, split based on ability, leaving those less capable with no support or opportunity. No options but to live a life of doubt and depression, clinging to the benefit network for means of support.
Gove’s policy for education makes for fearful conclusions; an obedient race fed on the system-identified policy that’s deemed best to control young people’s upbringing – a system that focuses controlled spending on those who seem prosperous, not those who feel challenged. It’s an ignorant way to respond to education; many schools do well, performing highly. The academy concept is just a government re-branding idea; it takes apart Labours investment drive for specialist schools with select focuses, wasting more money and supplying one flat education format that is believed to suit all.
Fact is, it doesn’t. Our society breathes on its diversity, for what is a state that just breeds academics? It’s boring, corrupt and leaves the creative struggling. British culture is the arts, our export is entertainment. In economic terms, the creative sector’s contribution to Britain’s GDP is up there with the financial sector – and, unlike the latter, it won’t leave us bankrupt.
A diverse format is the one that suits education best. But it doesn’t mean it makes it the right format for everyone. Students should be treated as individuals, not letters to mark and grade. Gove’s ideas for reform are only going to lose the best of our specialist schools, and push the grading system (that already makes for a fickle representation of a child’s personality) into the limelight – it devalues education itself.
The students have already been responsible for walk-outs, who says the teachers won’t soon too? Fix up your priorities, Mr Gove, stop selling the youth’s education for profit.
Stop messing with our futures.
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@robbieflash
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