On the Today programme this morning there was a report that highlighted the differences in children's achievements in school. They had the head teacher from the highest achieving school and the head from an under achieving one. I think Brentwood and Birmingham respectively.
The argument from the Birmingham one was the same old, same old, - children coming from deprived areas, no books at home, uninterested parents.
Well, considering schools have the children from the age of three, and for six hours of each weeekday, don't you think they should be able to turn this around by now? I know they don't have a level playing field to start from, but it seems a lame argument. They have plenty of time with the children.
The underachieving school head said they were trying to "widen up the world" by paying for and taking them on a trip to France in year 9. I would hope they would have done a lot more in the way of imaginative lessons and field trips before then!
Am I being unfair?
