On 29 Sep, 21:46, Bernard Peek  wrote:
> In message , Lizz Holmans
>  writes
>
> >It can be done. It gets done. Most of the time a kid gets as good an
> >education as he is motivated to get.
>
> Well, yes. But that's made true by demotivating any kids that get ahead
> of the rest of the class. That's certainly what happened to me.

MTAAW.  I spent years being told to sit quiet while they explained it
yet again to the kids who didn't understand it yet.  I stopped going
in the end.  I'd go to the woodjbex shop and molish thungs.  I passed
'O' level history by reading in the library - I didn't go to a single
lesson in 3 years.  I got a 'B' at 'A' level biology and only ever
went to practicals.  I read the text books on the school bus and used
to blag train rides to Lunnon to go to university lectures & public
lectures.  They knew more than the idiots teaching the idiots around
me.

I'd have got 5 grade 'A' if I'd have bothered.  I got a 'S' pass at
maths and the maths teacher had died & not been replaced 4 terms
before, so I organised private lessons & actually taught them to the
survivors of the group.  We had to break into the old caretakers flat
to do it.  I ended up with an S, B, C, D, not marked.  The school
refused to submit my Electricity and Radio paper because I answered
all 7 questions instead of 5.  When asked why, I said I was bored.
That was 'talking back' so they didn't submit the paper.  I didn't
care.

I guess I did get the education to match my residual motivation, as
stated.  I've never forgiven them for that.