Jho

Jho, 6 months ago

I’m sure they could do without the overhauls every few years, but this one’s important.

Agreed.

Overhauling shouldn’t be taken lightly, it has a negative effect on the students who have to adapt to these changes suddenly (whilst sitting exams which can/will affect the future course of their lives).

But this past decade of overhauls has absolutely put secondary education in a worse state than it was in before. This needs to be corrected.

Pre-2013 secondary education already had a big issue with “just memorise it” in my experience of doing exams back then, to hear it’s only gotten even worse the past few years is very distressing.

Jho, 7 months ago

The linked article doesn’t go into detail about why there was an attempted right-wing takeover so here’s a TL;DR from this Guardian article:

Restore Trust opposes what it describes as a “woke” agenda – including National Trust displays about slavery and historical figures – and has said it wants to steer the charity “back to its core purpose of looking after our heritage and countryside”.

[Restore Trust] was led by a group of longstanding National Trust members “who are concerned that the NT has abandoned its original remit and is now, like much of the charitable and third sector, pursuing a politically motivated ‘revisionist’ agenda”.

How dare the National Trust, who owns more than 200 historic houses, want to teach people about history? /s

It’s just blatant vice signalling. So, yeah, glad to see this attempted takeover failed.

Edit: Brevity.