Ed Balls(up) - More socialist social engineering.

A major Government-backed review is expected to recommend reducing the amount of time spent on individual subjects in favour of a skills-based curriculum.

Under the move, schools would be encouraged to merge subjects together. It will give schools more time to explore themes such as healthy lifestyles, multiculturalism and personal development.

So less of the useful stuff like english and more on how we are all evil rascists and how every culture is good except the imperialist white race.

More on treehugging and making sure that you follow HM Govt guidelines on eating your 5 a day rather than learning maths.

Pupils will also be required to receive lessons on sex and relationships education following a Government decision this week to make the subject compulsory in all schools.

Under a further move, schools will be forced to teach foreign languages - another statutory requirement from 2010.

Sir Jim Rose, former director of inspections at Ofsted, was appointed by ministers to lead the overhaul of primary schools following an admission that existing timetables were outdated.
His interim report will be delivered to Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, next week.

Sex and relationship education over that of proper lessons. 

Mr Balls tasked him to investigate whether "pupils' interests might be better served by studying fewer subjects during primary education".

In a letter, he told Sir Jim to "take out some of the clutter, reduce the number of set subjects".

Ministers have already introduced a new curriculum in secondary schools, giving teachers more flexibility.

Clutter, what the fuck. Look we have large numbers who due to little discipline in the home environment and under this shower bugger all in the schools, drift through unable to read or write. Failed by the state and they talk of clutter with regards lessons.

Only a fuckwit like Ed Balls, New Labours Piers Fletcher-Dervish would think that the nations youth is best served by social engineering in the classroom, rather than the clutter of proper lessons.

But the latest review has already been criticised because it does not cover Sats tests taken by 11-year-olds at the end of the primary years.

Critics claim they skew the curriculum as schools are forced to drop lessons to make way for exam practice.

Addressing the Commons schools select committee, Sir Jim said testing was the "elephant in the room" when he visited primary schools.

"It would be terribly disingenuous to say there's no problem here because of course it is an issue," he said.

Any attempt to cut time devoted to traditional subjects will also be strongly opposed by the Conservatives.

Not just the Conservatives, parents at least the ones not on sink estates who give a shit about their offsprings education will be opposing these moves.

Children should be taught to write, spell and add up. They need to learn facts not green cult scare tactics, not a revised history that includes fuck all about our culture but teaches them the rituals of each alien religion and the dates of every pagan festival from around the world.

Statist social engineering covered up in wank phrases like "fairness", "multiculturalism", "social justice" and "child proverty."

Nick Gibb, the shadow schools minister, said: "Whenever theme or project based learning has been tried in the past it has resulted in lower standards of achievement.

We need schools to focus on tried and tested methods that have been proven to work, not old fashioned approaches that have consistently failed."

Sir Jim's review will recommend that literacy and numeracy remains a focus across the curriculum.

It is likely to demand more flexible start dates for summer-born children entering primary school amid fears they quickly fall behind pupils with autumn birthdays. At the moment, pupils are often put into the same year group despite being born up to 12 months apart.

A survey of 1,500 teachers, parents and education officials - used to feed into the report - said primary schools should be less reliant on subjects and more on the lifestyle and "personal development" of pupils.

"Almost all respondents strongly believed that a curriculum framework driven by key concepts and processes - including personal, learning and thinking skills - should replace a curriculum dominated by content," said the report.

Well I don't care if they asked 15,000 teachers. Our education system needs to drill in facts, ficgures and not fluff and nonsense.

Ed Balls the social engineer of Gordon Brown.

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