What’s a thing you wish schools actually taught?

I come from this after thirty-four years in education. Primarily in primary but with forays into secondary. Last Ten were in senior management.

The one absolute is:

CRITICAL THINKING

Ye gods it would certainly assist in the amount of stupidity you see flying around.

In the old days you would see it from the man in the pub or papers like the Daily Heil in the UK. Now we have Social Media and outlets like Fox News, GB News… Other outlets are available.

Now we have generative AI with political parties using it to forward their aims.

Discovery channel with their made up documentary shows. Sorry there are other channels too but I just woke up.

I remember watching their Shark week one on the Meg.I mean it should have had the tagline: This is a true story. Only the facts have been changed to protect the innocent!

Ended up in a discussion with a few kids after that one about how it was all made up… On the upside we ended up doing a project on Ancient Life… So I took the win 🤗

Watched something the other day where a guy was arguing that 88% of Muslim women couldn’t speak English. When statistics show that it is 88% can speak it very well,

And let’s not get into politics…

I now need to get going so I will end here with a final thought.

In the words of the great Aretha Franklin…”THINK!”