Centre will engage the disengaged
Monday 6th April 2009, 2:29PM BST.
PUPILS most at risk of dropping out of school are to be targeted by a new centre to deal with disengaged students.
Formerly Oakvale School, the new centre will provide access to a wide range of facilities and activities aimed at tackling students’ behavioural, social and emotional difficulties.
‘The whole purpose is to support pupils whose extreme behavioural difficulties prevent them learning at school and to help older pupils who are at risk of dropping out of school early,’ said special educational needs and children’s services manager Shona Isbister.
‘If they drop out of school, we know they are most at risk of ending up not in education, training or employment.
‘We want to help them become successful and confident individuals so that they are more likely to become responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society,’ she said.
Last week the Guernsey Press reported that about 300 youngsters aged 16 to 25 had been identified by the Education Department as not in education, employment or training – the so-called Neets group.
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The UK based education system no longer works see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7984853.stm
Children need less academia as not everyone can become a Doctor,Lawyer or Accountant anyway.
Less subjects and sports all afternoon would go along way to achieving this particularly when augmented by a strong literary culture with contemporary authors at its foundation.
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>>The whole purpose is to support pupils whose extreme behavioural difficulties <<
One of the definitions behaviourial difficulties seems to be anyone who doesn’t want to go to school after 16.
“Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated”
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“We want to help them become successful and confident individuals so that they are more likely to become responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society,’ she said.”
Here we go again. The failing, if it indeed is a failing, of 10 years of Education puts us in a position where we have another centre, another couple of positions and a spiral of costs.
I mean look at the type of language used:
” we know they are most at risk of ending up not in education, training or employment”
At risk? People are at risk of being raped, cancer or some disease. No one is ‘at risk’ of not getting trained. Pathetic manipulation, it really is.
So the question again has to be asked. If these kids have ‘fallen through the net’ or are ‘at risk’ its the Education system that has failed – they’ve been in school for long enough.
Why do the taxpayers have to be continued with imaginery problems from a failed UL Education programme by a bunch of ‘educationalists’ and politician that continue to either want to interfere in the aspect of everyone’s life, refuse to take responsibility for their educational failings and, more importatnly, make up a lot of imaginery conditions to justify and extend their empires.
This island gets more stupid by the second.
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