There’s an increasing worry about the number of Finnish youth dropping out of “wagon” after compulsory schooling – no education, no jobs. I heard number 30 000 in the morning YLE1. I am not sure what the stats say but I believe that group is increasingly consisting of boys.
I have now seen how my two older boys have been going through the “new” course based upper comprehensive school (classes 7-9) instead of the old half year terms based schooling which I myself had. I can only say that I am convinced that the courses based system really has an impact to drive increasing number of boys to to “not experiencing success”-zone. Since all courses are counted for total grades, boys end up having lower grades since they mature later.
Now Henna (and/or the ladies in Opetuministeriö) seems to be showing boys the door by driving this development even further – there is less and less moments for pulling the act together.
Actually, I am not sure if anyone else has REALLY benefitted of this, except the school book publishers – are there REALLY sensible arguments why Otto’s and Vili’s (having a 3km distance between their schools) practically all schools books are different?? 2 x 6 x in average 120€ per year revenue for publishers yes…
(OK –Pisa results are great, but I think my (and previous) generation is doing quite OK with just one set of books).
Typical tuomobs but anyways simply beacuse of what Henna Virkkunen stands for, my vote goes this time to some other party.
I wish someone would turn the education “wagon” for more boys friendly direction, kill the current courses based system, kill the school book business, stop the evident/looming crisis when we have lots of young men not on board on the society.
I have now seen how my two older boys have been going through the “new” course based upper comprehensive school (classes 7-9) instead of the old half year terms based schooling which I myself had. I can only say that I am convinced that the courses based system really has an impact to drive increasing number of boys to to “not experiencing success”-zone. Since all courses are counted for total grades, boys end up having lower grades since they mature later.
Now Henna (and/or the ladies in Opetuministeriö) seems to be showing boys the door by driving this development even further – there is less and less moments for pulling the act together.
Actually, I am not sure if anyone else has REALLY benefitted of this, except the school book publishers – are there REALLY sensible arguments why Otto’s and Vili’s (having a 3km distance between their schools) practically all schools books are different?? 2 x 6 x in average 120€ per year revenue for publishers yes…
(OK –Pisa results are great, but I think my (and previous) generation is doing quite OK with just one set of books).
Typical tuomobs but anyways simply beacuse of what Henna Virkkunen stands for, my vote goes this time to some other party.
I wish someone would turn the education “wagon” for more boys friendly direction, kill the current courses based system, kill the school book business, stop the evident/looming crisis when we have lots of young men not on board on the society.
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