Discussion

1) Do you think education should be free? Are there advantages in a fee-paying system?

2) Do you think children should be tested at the ages of seven and eleven?

3) What are your views of boarding schools? Would you like to have attended one yourself?

4) Describe your own education in terms which would make sense to someone familiar with the British system. You may have to use explanations like “a kind of grammar school” or “an upper secondary school”.

5) If education is to be more than just exams, what exactly is the “more” that educators are so keen to have. Discuss the broader possibilities of a modern school education in the light of your experiences. Outside of gaining subject knowledge at school, what else do you learn?

6) What are typical discipline problems at schools? What do teachers do?

7) Try to list as many possible solutions as you can to the following problems, then say how each solution would work.

problem	solutions
truancy
large class sizes
lack of discipline
shortage of facilities
poor exam results

8) Bullying is a major problem in schools and in the workplace. Read this definition of bullying which is addressed to schoolchildren and then answer the questions below.

a) Have you ever been the victim of bullying or been aware that another person was being bullied?

b) Do you think that bullying is a serious problem or is it simply a part of growing up?

c) Do you think that only certain people are the targets of bullies, i.e. people who look/act differently, or can anybody be a victim?

d) Why, in your opinion, do people bully?

e) What, if anything, can a person who is being bullied do to protect himself?

f) Should schools have a policy on bullying?

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