Read this and smile, power to the pupils

[FindTheLight]

Recently in Rochdale, England, which is where I'm from, students made a protest against their headteacher and it made the front page of the local paper, they sent a message around on facebook and 50 students walked out and started chanting outside their head's office. It was over uniform rules that the head had put into place. The full story is here:

http://www.rochdaleobserver.co.uk/news/ ... ide_school

It just shows what we can do, power to the pupils!

[rebelliousteen101]

COOOL...i wish all the students in america can come together to bann HOMEWORK!!!

[The Desert Fox]

Wow. Just goes to show you that all we need is a cause and motivation. Although here in the US they'd probably tear-gas us.

[Wingless]

Quote:But despite the mass protest headteacher Maggie Holt is refusing to compromise on the school's uniform policy.

She said: "Protests, such as this one, are unhelpful distractions from the real business of our students' education and will not influence school rules."

Prepare for unforeseen consequences, bitch. Also, *facedesk*


I hope these awesome students continue their protests, if she is such a blind bitch that she can't see the reason to change the rules now, then the only thing left to do is to increase the intensity of the protest until the logical reasoning side of her brain wakes up. Hell, i would be rallying everyone that I possibly could to join the protest if I was there.

[IllusoryDeath]

*applauds*

[Rebelnerd]

rebelliousteen101 Wrote:COOOL...i wish all the students in america can come together to bann HOMEWORK!!!

If all the students in American managed to organize an effective union/protesting group and then wasted it on homework, I would lose all faith in our people.
That article is pretty fucking awesome though.

[Liquid]

Rebelnerd Wrote:

rebelliousteen101 Wrote:COOOL...i wish all the students in america can come together to bann HOMEWORK!!!

If all the students in American managed to organize an effective union/protesting group and then wasted it on homework, I would lose all faith in our people.
That article is pretty fucking awesome though.

Abolishing homework would make for a reasonably good start though.

[aerftghyjk]

So much win!
And I also think HW would be a good start.

[Reptorian]

Homework may be an great start, but what about the fact that you have to wake up so damn early in the morning and school ends at 2:30 PM. When the school are set into an later time, people are more likely to learn faster and score higher if they just allows the option which would actually help disprove a lot of the school's advocates idea that you need to study an subject for so many days repeatably and try to memorize them till your brain can remembers it. The quality of education would be a lot more higher when the schedule is changed to later time and it may allow room to give powers to the students and changes an small part of the school system management style to give more chances to change even more part of the school system.

[IllusoryDeath]

StylizedCarfan1 Wrote:Homework may be an great start, but what about the fact that you have to wake up so damn early in the morning and school ends at 2:30 PM. When the school are set into an later time, people are more likely to learn faster and score higher if they just allows the option which would actually help disprove a lot of the school's advocates idea that you need to study an subject for so many days repeatably and try to memorize them till your brain can remembers it. The quality of education would be a lot more higher when the schedule is changed to later time and it may allow room to give powers to the students and changes an small part of the school system management style to give more chances to change even more part of the school system.

Yes, but when you finally get out of school, half of the day is gone - which will more than likely have to be spent doing homework/projects or extracurricular activities.

Frankly, I am grateful that my school is part of the early-start system. Sure, it is annoying as fuck to have to get up so early every morning, but I would still rather have to deal with that than to have my afternoons/early evenings taken away. It already takes me long enough to get home as it is, and if my school let out any later, it would be past six o' clock at night before I could finally unlock the backdoor.

Even if our memories work better after a certain time of being awake, it isn't like we would be memorizing anything useful in school anyway. Also, why be concerned about "scoring higher" when that should not matter to a person's education? Is it not true that grades have no importance as to how a student is 'learning'? Not when you get to the root of all things, anyway.

[Rebelnerd]

What about zero tolerance? What about ODD? What about cameras? What about school shootings? What about schools that use GPS tags to track students' movements and sent officers to grab them outside school grounds? What about boot camps? What about unpunished police brutality of school cops towards students?
I know homework needs to go, but seriously, listening to you guys you'd think that this was some kind of Kids Next Door crap.

[Fire Elf]

rebelliousteen101 Wrote:COOOL...i wish all the students in america can come together to bann HOMEWORK!!!

Just homework? You're not thinking far enough, there's lots more we need to get rid off.

[Reptorian]

IllusoryDeath Wrote:Frankly, I am grateful that my school is part of the early-start system. Sure, it is annoying as fuck to have to get up so early every morning, but I would still rather have to deal with that than to have my afternoons/early evenings taken away. It already takes me long enough to get home as it is, and if my school let out any later, it would be past six o' clock at night before I could finally unlock the backdoor.

Even if our memories work better after a certain time of being awake, it isn't like we would be memorizing anything useful in school anyway. Also, why be concerned about "scoring higher" when that should not matter to a person's education? Is it not true that grades have no importance as to how a student is 'learning'? Not when you get to the root of all things, anyway.

Actually you would have less time being in school since there are evidence that students go through less schooling in the kind of school that can start at 5 PM and they will be staying there in less amount of hours than those who go through school at an earlier time. Anything you learn can be essential if you are going to use it for the rest of your life and memorizing as much subjects as you can may be one day serving you later which is why I support the view of learning as much as you can regarding where you are. Grades only measure the amount of work you did in the average and in rare cases, it could actually give an idea of the amount of knowledge the students have. If schools are scoring higher, then there should be some way to influence people to get school to teach more advanced concepts at an earlier grades in order to catch up with the alternative education and it is highly improbable that that public school are going to help people in gaining the amount of knowledge on tests to the point where they will be considered as well as private school since the government isn't managing the education correctly. People should be learning more advanced concepts at an much earlier grades than sticking with the basics making them have more probability of having lack of knowledge of the advanced concept that they want to learn in the future when they start college or try to learn outside of school. I wouldn't condone learning your own subjects after graduating when the concept is new to you because of the stress involved and the learning rates are slower, but I do condone the idea of learning anything you want at any situation whether they tell you not to do it or not.