Half Term and its do's and doing's
Half Term has arrived though it's hardly a holiday...
Here we are meant to be relaxing with a week off while recuperating ahead of the final bend before the home stretch to mock exams and 2 GCSEs. Yet this doesn't come across.
In a land of a supposedly 'United' Kingdom we are pressurised into panicking ourselves for mocks!
The whole purpose of mock exams is to understand where your strengths and weaknesses are. From then you can begin to focus on your weaknesses so that they can be eradicated in time for the real thing.
This year in particular, I admit, the stress is understandable.
The Conservatives' Gove/Morgan partnership has decided to bring the exam board in line with Europe just as the rest of the government decides to separate itself from the rest of Europe. By unexpectedly changing the marking system and dragging A-Level topics down to GCSE it is hardly the teachers fault. They are the innocent victims of this event like nature in the late Ted Hughes' poem 'Bayonet Charge'. They weren't to know of the horrors yet it is the teachers who have to adapt so rapidly to a new syllabus.
Anyway, I'm getting off topic...
This Half Term, I for one will relax, for the purpose of a holiday is to regroup and reset. Essentially it's a refresh button but a button you can only press so many times before your iPhone 4 ultimately crashes. To panic for mock exams is shooting yourself in the foot with a Govian/Morganian form of artillery.
I'm not saying don't revise but the last thing any child needs is unwanted stress and pressure during a time of recovery.
To conclude, you need to remember an item of the Just War Philosophy...
Sufficient Force
(i.e you don't have to ban Muslims just to prevent terror attacks coming from those countries which haven't caused any terror attacks in your own country)
Fact of the Day (Or other Indefinite Period of Time):
More people are killed by ride-on lawn mowers a year than people killed by terrorists from 7 mainly Muslim countries.
Here we are meant to be relaxing with a week off while recuperating ahead of the final bend before the home stretch to mock exams and 2 GCSEs. Yet this doesn't come across.
In a land of a supposedly 'United' Kingdom we are pressurised into panicking ourselves for mocks!
The whole purpose of mock exams is to understand where your strengths and weaknesses are. From then you can begin to focus on your weaknesses so that they can be eradicated in time for the real thing.
This year in particular, I admit, the stress is understandable.
The Conservatives' Gove/Morgan partnership has decided to bring the exam board in line with Europe just as the rest of the government decides to separate itself from the rest of Europe. By unexpectedly changing the marking system and dragging A-Level topics down to GCSE it is hardly the teachers fault. They are the innocent victims of this event like nature in the late Ted Hughes' poem 'Bayonet Charge'. They weren't to know of the horrors yet it is the teachers who have to adapt so rapidly to a new syllabus.
Anyway, I'm getting off topic...
This Half Term, I for one will relax, for the purpose of a holiday is to regroup and reset. Essentially it's a refresh button but a button you can only press so many times before your iPhone 4 ultimately crashes. To panic for mock exams is shooting yourself in the foot with a Govian/Morganian form of artillery.
I'm not saying don't revise but the last thing any child needs is unwanted stress and pressure during a time of recovery.
To conclude, you need to remember an item of the Just War Philosophy...
Sufficient Force
(i.e you don't have to ban Muslims just to prevent terror attacks coming from those countries which haven't caused any terror attacks in your own country)
Fact of the Day (Or other Indefinite Period of Time):
More people are killed by ride-on lawn mowers a year than people killed by terrorists from 7 mainly Muslim countries.
Very true! I agree that homework is not only unneeded but also extremely useless!
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