Government agrees to rethink early years curriculum | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co.uk
Settings to be able to opt out of EYFS as opposition forces government to retreat. Government agrees to rethink early years curriculum | News crumb | EducationGuardian.co.uk
posted by Kevin J. Brehony at
6:47 am
1 Comments:
Like most headlines it is not true.
The announcement was:
a) to review 2 (out of 117) learning requirements in 2009 (the ones even the DCSF's own advisors expressed deep concern over).
b) to allow applications for time-limited (2 year) exemption, conditional on an unknown application process, assessed by QCA on unknown criteria through an advisor with unknown educational and philosophical views and subject to approval by a Minister who has fought tooth and nail to deny the freedom to avoid the imposition of LEA targets to put pressure on Settings to increase their children' profile scores. And this is only when the majority of parents agree! How could a setting cope with even one parent dissenting? Isolate that child with a pile of books, paper, pencils,and ICT equipment? (remember this is a play-based curriculum, so no formal instruction is needed - they should do fine)
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home