What is Covid Plan C and what restrictions could be imposed to tackle Omicron I had no argument as to why they should engage with Dracula. The futility and unfairness of it struck me mid lesson.
Trying to explain to young students who already feel like they have failed, why Jane Eyre is so important to them, is borderline abuse.Īt a time when young people are turning away from books and literature at an alarming rate, no one in government seems bothered or interested in providing students with something a little more relatable. Forced to engage with books written in a language they will never use. Students who don’t pass their GCSEs are forced to repeat what they’ve already failed at. Or, at least, no one is willing to say.įor as far back as anyone can remember, a stream of out-of-touch, often privately educated, Education Secretaries, have signed off on the idea that teaching student’s 19th century literature, at Level 2, is just what students need to secure them a decent job in the workplace. This week, in a classroom near you, a baffled teacher will attempt to convince a disillusioned group of GCSE English students that learning why Jane Eyre doesn’t think Mr Rochester loves her, is going to make the world of difference to their futures.
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