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03/25/2008: "Education should return to teaching, play"

Schools should return to an early 1980s style of liberal education with more time for play and less rigid methods of teaching children to read, according to the largest teachers' union.

Citing mounting evidence of a crisis in children's happiness and mental health, the National Union of Teachers will today debate calls to scrap the most restrictive elements of the national curriculum and reverse a government order that literacy be taught through phonics.

[ Why not teach unpoliticized education to those who can learn, and let the others go where they're going anyway? Take care of those with potential FIRST. ]

http://education.guardian.co.uk/teachersworkload/story/0,,2267748,00.html