cinquespotted:beautifulhigh:lauranicuspond:50s-dad:wingnutsadboys-union:ive-never-had-lunch:I can’t
cinquespotted:beautifulhigh:lauranicuspond:50s-dad:wingnutsadboys-union:ive-never-had-lunch:I can’t believe I woke up to this news. I can’t believe how ironic it is that our education secretary is a walking wall of sheer stupidity. This will see a huge decline in kids reading. I’m relieved I’ve finished my literature gcse so it won’t affect me but I can’t believe these bastards represent us.Gove is a shit who has no business being the education secretary because he has no idea what the fuck he’s doing.okay but doing To Kill A Mockingbird was one of my favourite fucking parts of English GCSE and it’s such an important book for kids to read what the FUCK is this guy thinkingUgh, for fuck’s sake. My school (as does many across the country) teaches GCSE material to low ability children. Children who would struggle with many of the complex texts that Gove is proposing.Of Mice and Men is perfect for many reasons.It’s a simple narrative with limited, distinct characters. The circular structure of the novel and clear foreshadowing mean that the low ability kids? They get it. They understand it enough to write a response to it in an exam.My top set kids? Well, there’s a whole range of higher and deeper meanings for you my A and A* students. Shall we discuss the notion of Slim being representative of God? How about the influence of nature over mankind and the fact that we are all bound to it, including the cyclical nature of life and death?Steinbeck created a masterpiece and teachers across the country use the novella (as it technically is) to engage and teach students across the age range.My Head of Department did To Kill a Mockingbird with her top set students last year. They loved it and did amazingly well on the exam. I did The Crucible at school and loved it.Dismissing these great works simply because they were not written by a British person can be summed up in one word, Mr Gove:Xenophobic.Petition to make Michael Gove’s job dependent on producing a nuanced and original reading of, say, Midnight’s Children.Amending the curriculum to exclude non-British authors is offensive, asinine, and xenophobic for all of the above reasons, but also, continuing to whittle away the representation of essentially everything that doesn’t support a “traditional” and post-Empire inflected model of education just makes an already broken system even worse. -- source link
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