Should 'pupil's council' be banned from schools???
Philip Dalton
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I was a member of this when I was in high school. I don't see the harm in it personally as it is merely just children suggesting ideas instead of telling teachers how to run the school. Some, though, may see it as just another example of the lack of discipline in schools today where kids are allowed to get 'too big for their boots' thanks to loony 'liberals' and 'do-gooders'.
Actually it was initially the idea of someone called O'Neal who opened a very liberal school where children didn't even have to go to any lessons if they didn't feel like it.
Actually it was initially the idea of someone called O'Neal who opened a very liberal school where children didn't even have to go to any lessons if they didn't feel like it.
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No I haven't.
http://www.summerhillschool.co.uk/
Of course students should have a voice in education - the schools are supposed to be for them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._S._Neill
Yes, I do agree with them, I used to be in one myself, but the point of the thread is to ask other's opinion on the subject.
However, I do think this A.S. Neill took his liberalism too far-as well as giving students a choice in education he also gave them the option to opt out of having an education altogether.
This is wrong on all levels-if you won't send your child to school you have to prove they are receiving lessons but if you just happen to send them to his school they don't even have to attend any lessons at all if they don't feel like it.
All children should me made to learn at least until they are of the legal school leaving age.
I think there must be enforced hairwashing when there's an outbreak of nits amongst them, it's a boarding school so how else are they supposed to deal with it?
I wonder if they have a policy of shaving children's heads.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/school-with-no-rules-is-forced-to-lay-down-law-because-of-spoilt-pupils-480865.html
Thinkgs like the Youth Council are completely pointless. They can't do anything of significance to the people they're supposed to serve and exist in the hope that loads of young people will be interested in politics and having careers in politics.
That sounds like a very unusual school. I could see it either being fantastic or awful.
I don't think theres any problem with that. Kids can't exactly have a say in the way a school is run, primary school kids at least.
I'm not even sure if my secondary school had a school council
Actually I started a thread on it on another website & someone thought it was strange that you had to pay to send your kids there when it wasn't compulsory for them to attend lessons. In effect you could be paying for them to be taught nothing.
Not exactly, I was going to meetings with my parents, had done since the age of six, but wasn't baptized until 17.5
It's not something they put any restriction on though, there was never any mention of such a thing in the meetings, you could be a prefect or even head boy or girl if you wanted to.
The daughter of a Jehovah's Witness osteopath was made into head girl at the school after I left. The only thing we've been told is not to get involved with the political systems of the world by voting or fighting in wars. I think signing an e-petition would probably amount to pretty much the same thing, but I'm not sure, I'm thinking of asking advice on it.