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As a very bored teenage school goer, I am very cheesed off with school. I HATE school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I came up with this ingenious idea of starting school at the age of 9 and doing
Maths
sciences
IT
RE
English writing and reading (no speaking though reason coming),
geography
history
PE
PSHE (Personal Social Health Ed) Drugs ect
DT
French
and German
for the first two years until you were 11 get graded in those subjects then choose what they want to take for their GCSE's or SATS. They get to choose whether they do

4 or 6 lessons of science a week (still doing Biology, Physics and Chemistry)

French or German
History or Geography
PE as a GCSE
Which DT to do

If you want to do say French and German you will have to sacrifice another choice (not do PE)

As compulsory you will have to do

English reading writing and speaking
IT
PSHE]
Core PE

At the age of 13 Kids would do exams (GCSE's) and if they do not pass them they will be held back a year (at the age of 16 you would not be held back any longer and you will go away with how ever many GCSE's you have passed)

After school at the age of 13 you will have the choice to either go to "upper school" or take a year out and at the age of 14 go and work at a Pre arranged job- suited to your abilities as you have passed your GCSE's but you will get normal school holidays

In upper School (13 or 14 - 17) you will learn A level sort of things. And you will again have to do the compulsory subjects but you get to concentrate on 5 main other subjects and do them at a higher level.

At the end of upper school you will take a gap year to again a job, more of your choice this time though.

Then you will if you chose to go to university and do the normal Degree

And then you leave and go into the real world

What do you think??

I came up with this idea after not much thinking so if anyone has any suggestions on how to maybe improve it please say something

I'm awaiting Phan's post with anticipation!!


Oh yes the reason for not doing Speaking at the age of 9 is because most words we learn we learn between the ages of 0 and 9 because we have only really just found out how to talk so we talk constantly

Fletch

youll miss it when youve left and have to do proper work

Yea but the problem is i HATE it NOW!!!!!!

Not long left now though only these 2 years and then the 2 for A levels then the 3/4 for uni.
They are changing some courses for the lower than average kids in school to NVQ's in which they go out into the workplace to learn.

Oh, and don't forget post grad vocational qualifications, the ream of certificates youi need to change career when you keep getting made redundant and the night school courses you'll need to do to keep your d***ed job in the first place.:loopy:

the most important thing you learn at school, if you are lucky, is how to learn, and teach yourself.

everything else is just jumping through hoops.

the most important thing you learn at school, if you are lucky, is how to learn, and teach yourself.

You learned that at school !!?!?

You're luckier than I thought :D

I only really began to learn once I'd got over the school experience...

Find something you're interested in and study it - like back2basics with his physics :P

just don't ever stop learning for yourself... the more you learn the more you earn :thumbsup:

I've always preferred learning for its own sake. If I have to study to advance my career it just feels like unpaid work and I just switch off. Anyone have a similar problem?

Originally posted by fuzzy purple
Not long left now though only these 2 years and then the 2 for A levels then the 3/4 for uni.


It sounds like a life sentence when you say it like that, BUT you should make the most of it...you'll miss it when you've left school....they are the best days of your life. (crikey....I sound middle aged ):o

You'll miss school when you leave Fletch.
I did and still do.


And my school is no longer standing, so I cant even go back for a look round!

Trust me, school years are the best years of your life!

School is wasted on kids, imo. I was like you fletch, hated being at school and couldn't wait to leave as soon as I hit 16. 15 years later I went back to learning and got myself a degree which got me out of a dead end job. Anothe xx years down the road and I'm still learning, I've got another exam coming up next Saturday.

Believe me, do the best you can now as it gives you a whole lot more choices later on in life.

Originally posted by max
School is wasted on kids, imo.

Youth is wasted on the young.
Before you know, it's come and gone.

Never a truer word spoken.

Originally posted by max
School is wasted on kids, imo. I was like you fletch, hated being at school and couldn't wait to leave as soon as I hit 16. 15 years later I went back to learning and got myself a degree which got me out of a dead end job. Anothe xx years down the road and I'm still learning, I've got another exam coming up next Saturday.

Believe me, do the best you can now as it gives you a whole lot more choices later on in life.

I would be grateful to be associated with your post Max. Nice pointers.

I enjoy some lessons in school (well, maybe just English). But you do find that some things you're taught are extremely irrelevant and will really never be needed. I also think you should have a choice of what language you want to do. I do French and German but to be honest I'd much prefer to drop German and do like Spanish instead as I don't see the point in me doing German, I know absolutely no German even though I've been learning it for 3 years.