I think Dr. Patrick Hazlewood, the head teacher of St John’s in Marlborough, Wilts, UK is looking to be Cannonized by the students at his school.
All 12-year-olds at a comprehensive will be told today that homework is being scrapped because teachers have better things to do than mark it.
[Hazelwood] has already scrapped subject teaching, will not put it quite like that, of course.
He will tell them that, to make their schooling more “relevant to life in the 21st century”, they are to be given responsibility for “managing their own learning”.
What an dolt. If I had my way in school, I’d have “managed” my own learning of ‘technique de money bars’.
Next up will be the tagging of students with the bracelets they put on house arrest prisoners.
Ooops, it looks like that idea is already there.
Maybe this little whiner and his dad should move to the UK.
In an effort to teach educators a lesson about the importance of summer vacation, a Whitnall High School student and his father have filed a lawsuit against the boy’s math teacher that seeks to bar teachers from requiring homework over the summer.
In the lawsuit, 17-year-old Peer Larson and his father, Bruce Larson of Hales Corners, argue that school officials have no legal authority to make students do homework over the summer because the state-required 180-day school year is over.
“The importance of a summer vacation!?!”
What a jackass!
Student tagging link found @ Samizdata
Student suing link found @ the Interested Participant