They are teaching RE in place of IT...
Why aren't young people taking computer courses at school?
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They are teaching RE in place of IT...
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First year of high school we learned how to program via punchcards. It got a bit better later on, we had Link 380Zs and 480Zs. 
which is much more useful given the rampant ignorence about regarding different religions.
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When I did IT GCSE it was all about creating relational databases and writing it up.
Not about just excel, ppt etc
Not about just excel, ppt etc
Mechanics and carpentry I can agree with, but cooking? Surely that's a key life skill which everyone should have, regardless of whether you plan to make a career out of it!
Cooking or 'food technology' was an option at school. It was one of my chosen subjects, I like cooking and 90% of the class were girls. Win win.
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It was Home Economics when I was at school, and the worse thing was carrying whatever it was you'd made back home in your school bag, on a bike.
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My Daughter (12 years old) asked me some questions the other day. "Do you have any ram I could look at?" I asked why and it was because they were doing PC building at school. It's not a module she's chosen but just something her IT teacher is teaching. I think it's down to the teachers what happens with IT.
This failed me for one of the first times in my career the other day, everything I thought I knew is a lie
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Hello Fresh, pizzas, Huel boxes ready meals take aways.
We build apartments with 50k kitchens and when I point out that they don’t actually work as a kitchen no one cares.
*ignorance, the irony.
Teaching about mythical sky pixies and the root of most of the worlds evil over a subject that will help them in the wider world.
There's nothing more frustrating than IT problems. An obscure bug, a completely undocumented MS "feature", a device/app that behaves as intended for 95% of your users, but 5% have weird issues for no apparent reason.
The tagline for people getting into IT should be, "abandon hope all ye who enter".
That said, chiluns at school don't yet know how soul-destroying IT is, so that can't explain it
Same as any technical trade though at large volume users. Worked in both electronics and IT, and whilst I prefer Electronics - I definetly find problem solving on IT issues much easier. But then google is more readily available
Thank you for proving my point. RE is not about indoctrinating a belief in sky pixies but understanding why many people believe in sky pixies and the differences in said sky pixies and how such beliefs lead to violence and oppression. This is much more useful in life than something you can pick up from udemy course or playing around with a computer
Not with all the Jedis we've got in the country.
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Does baffle me, yet, not at the same time (I know how slow education moves, it's still sad) that things have seemingly gone backwards. The issue is that this generation is classed as digital natives, but as a dad of kids from 16 - 6, I can tell you that it's not an advantage at all. Because they've just "had" technology/apps/ devices, they've never had to find a solution to the problem, something is just there. It doesn't lead to a search for a solution, they just use what is there and it drives me crazy their lack of skills taught around this sort of stuff at school. Obviously we try at home and get the basic skills down and more importantly that mindset, but education is so behind there is nothing in formal education that supports the real world outside, and it's ever changing landscape of technology and work. The disconnect between education and the real world is just increasing year on year!