So what if the school buildings scheme is scrapped?

By Gambit72 | Tuesday, July 06, 2010, 11:39

Can someone please explain to me why rebuilding schools is so important?

I’m not talking about the ones that are crumbling and in danger of falling down – obviously, nobody expects children to be taught in buildings like that – but to listen to various commentators and spokespeople this morning, you’d think that the end of the school building programme was the end of the world.

I even heard some silly woman saying that teaching methods have changed considerably since the 1960s and so apparently we need new buildings to ‘reflect that’ and ‘provide the appropriate environment’.

In the 1980s I was taught for a while at the old Redcliffe school building on Still House Lane. Anyone else remember that place? I think it was built in the 1800s. I don’t remember anyone ever moaning that the building was unsuitable for methods of teaching in the 1980s. We had books. The heating and hot water worked most of the time. And we had great teachers.

I’m beginning to think that as a society, we’ve lost our grip on what’s important.

We simply can’t afford new school buildings at the moment. That’s a shame, but that’s all.

I’m sure the children will be fine being taught in old buildings, just as generations of children have been before them.

And if they want to know why they aren’t getting the gleaming new buildings they were promised, then it will be an interesting lesson for them on the concept of living within our means!

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This is a good lesson, living within our means. Makes a change from we need new buildins, bigger and better and we can teach our pupils better. No, if that is the case then we need new teachers. Yes I remember Still House Lane and what a good team of teachers and headmnaster they had.

By Susie710 at 21:17 on 06/07/10
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