Isn't it about time we supported our schools?
A sorry tale of where we went wrong, when the world started going
backwards with modern ideas!
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A physics teacher begs for his subject back: An open letter to AQA and
The Department of Education
http://tinyurl.com/2xlj26
http://www.wellingtongrey.net/
I am a physics teacher. Or, at least I used to be. My subject is still
called physics. My pupils will sit an exam and earn a GCSE in physics,
but that exam doesnt cover anything I recognize as physics. Over the
past year the UK Department for Education
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/
and the AQA board
http://www.aqa.org.uk/ changed the subject. They
took the physics out of physics and replaced it with
something else,
something nebulous and ill defined. I worry about this change. I worry
about my pupils, I worry about the state of science education in this
country, and I worry about the future physics teachers if there will
be any.
