Le "modèle" anglo-saxon,  libéral  ... et blairo-socialiste...
 

  ÉCOLES ANGLAISES :
Discipline, rigueur et esprit compétitif sont les maîtres mots de la mutation mise en œuvre par le gouvernement travailliste..

   Royaume-Uni : L’uniforme discriminatoire
En imposant un fournisseur unique pour l’achat de l’uniforme, les écoles pratiquent une discrimination à l’encontre des élèves pauvres. 

  Directeur d'école en Grande Bretagne :
« Le métier a beaucoup évolué. Aujourd’hui, on est beaucoup plus responsable,
on a plus de pression, on nous demande plus de résultats. »

  Deux fois plus d’enseignants sont partis en retraite anticipée au cours des sept dernières années. 

  35% des élèves de 11 ans ne savent pas lire.

  Un ado sur cinq ne peut situer son pays sur une carte.

  Ecoles publiques fermées aux pauvres.  Un rapport émis par ConfEd, (une association qui représente les dirigeants du secteur de l’éducation locale) dénonce le manque d’intégrité des processus d’admission dans certaines écoles publiques. Des réunions de "sélection" d’élèves sont organisées, durant lesquelles ne sont admis que les enfants "gentils, brillants et riches".  Ainsi, 70 000 parents n’ont pas pu inscrire cette année leurs enfants dans l’école de leur choix. En écartant les élèves issus de milieux pauvres, ces établissements "hors la loi" espèrent rehausser leur taux de réussite aux examens. 

   Selon l'OCDE, les écoles privées britanniques ont les meilleurs résultats au monde : FAUX !

  ... & Moins de pauvres dans les écoles primaires catholiques.

  Les écoles anglaises pourront être gérées par des "trusts".

  L’école britannique livrée au patronat.  En mars 2000, le Conseil européen de Lisbonne avait fixé comme principal objectif à la politique de l’Union en matière d’éducation de produire un capital humain rentable au service de la compétitivité économique. 

  Le créationnisme aux examens.

   "BAGUE DE VIRGINITE" : Une adolescente anglaise, fille d'un pasteur évangélique, perd son procès en Haute Cour.

  Grande-Bretagne : l'athéisme (bientôt ?) au programme scolaire

  Grande-Bretagne :Les sponsors au secours de l'école

  Empreintes digitales pour les enfants d'une école de Londres. Le Royaume-Uni réfléchit à la mise en place d’une loi pour la création d’un fichier national des enfants de moins de douze ans.

Naître et grandir pauvre en Grande-Bretagne  est encore plus pénalisant que dans d’autres pays développés.

  Un demi-million de «sans-logement». A Londres, un enfant sur deux sous le seuil de pauvreté.

  Un demi-million d'enfants britanniques travaillent "illégalement".

«tolérance zéro» et conditions de détention intolérables. Plus de dix mille jeunes délinquants britanniques sont emprisonnés.  «Le bilan du Royaume-Uni en terme d'emprisonnement des enfants est l'un des pires qui se puisse trouver en Europe.»

  Les frais très élevés d’inscription universitaire dissuadent les étudiants issus de familles modestes de s’inscrire en fac.

  De plus en plus d’étudiantes se prostituent ou travaillent dans l’industrie du sexe pour payer les frais d’inscription de leur université.

  Plus de 350 000 Britanniques ont quitté leur île en 2005 pour jouir d'une vie meilleure
Les jeunes Britanniques se voient vivre ailleurs.  Difficulté d' acquérir un logement, hausse de la fiscalité et indigence des services publics, en particulier les transports et le système de soins.

M. Ernest-Antoine Sellière, alors président du patronat français :« Je suis un socialiste britannique »

  Londres, paradis des milliardaires.

  Selon des rapports de l’ONU et de la Banque mondiale :  « Au Royaume-Uni, les inégalités entre riches et pauvres sont les plus importantes du monde occidental, comparables à celles qui existent au Nigeria, et plus profondes que celles que l’on trouve, par exemple, à la Jamaïque, au Sri Lanka ou en Ethiopie .»

  Grande Bretagne :  premier pays où chaque déplacement de véhicule sera enregistré.

  Les Britanniques inventent l'ultrason antijeunes.

   De plus en plus de mineurs hospitalisés pour des problèmes d'alcool. Le nombre de mineurs hospitalisés en Angleterre pour avoir trop bu a augmenté de 20% en un an.

Beuark.
Ségolène Royal rend hommage à la politique de Tony Blair.

L'école de Swanage (station balnéaire de 10000 habitants) ne répondant pas aux standards de qualité requis par le ministère, est menacée de fermeture, bien que la seule école non confessionnelle pour enfants de 4 à 9 ans soit distante de 25 km.
Selon le directeur, "Swanage aura une école catholique et une protestante, et pas d'école publique. Ce n'est pas juste".

Dans ce cas, les parents des 140 élèves n'auront d'autre choix que de les inscrire à l'école confessionnelle.
Selon ces parents, "Si vous êtes non croyant, vous êtes en bas de liste pour l'inscription à cette école"
"Vous devez parfois fournir une lettre signée par le vicaire certifiant que vous avez fréquenté l'église au moins 4 fois dans l'année. .."

Les "first schools" du comté ont 2025 places, mais n'accueillent actuellement que 1459 élèves.
Les responsables académiques hésitent entre plusieurs solutions pour réorganiser l'offre scolaire de la ville et du comté: l'un d'eux envisage de fermer l'école publique et l'une des deux écoles confessionnelles (protestante) et d'en ouvrir une nouvelle qui respecterait la tradition de cette dernière tout en étant ouverte à tous...

By Richard Garner, Education editor - Tuesday, 13 January 2009 - 

Parents in Dorset are set to become the first in the country to be denied the chance of sending their children to a non-religious primary school, The Independent has learnt.

Swanage First School in Dorset, described by Ofsted – the education standards watchdog – as "outstanding" in every aspect of the schooling it provides, is threatened with closure despite being the only non-faith school for children aged between four and nine for 16 miles around.

If it closes, as is proposed in a blueprint for schools by the county council, the parents of Swanage First's 140 pupils will have no alternative but to send their children to a faith school.

Parents – many of whom moved to Swanage because of the school's reputation – are angry about the closure threat. Shaun Moyler, who has two children at the school – Alfie, aged seven, and five-year-old Daisy, said: "I'm not anti-faith or pro-faith. I am worried, though. If you're non-faith, you're very low on the list of priorities for being accepted by a faith school.

"You sometimes have to get a letter signed by the vicar saying you've been to church, say, four times in the past year. Many parents can't do that and just have to take places at a school with spare places, not the best one."

The row has reached national level with the British Humanist Association supporting the parents. Andrew Copson, its director of education and public affairs, said: "In any community, and especially in a rural area, school diversity is crucial. As a community school, Swanage First helps promote diversity because it is open to all families, whatever their beliefs."

The Schools minister Jim Knight, whose constituency includes Swanage First, is also backing the school, telling staff and parents at a meeting: "I am supportive of retaining this school as a community school on this site." Under the Dorset plan, education in the area faces a huge reorganisation, largely as a result of dwindling pupil numbers. At present, unlike most other authorities, it has a first, middle and upper school system, with children attending a first school between four and nine, moving to a middle school until they are 13, then transferring to an upper school. The review plans to bring in traditional primary and secondary schools, with a switch at age 11.

In a statement, John Nash, the council's director for children and young people, and Toni Coombs, the councillor for children's services, say the present situation cannot deliver the best education "because there are too many empty places in our schools". The council review says: "The first schools in the area could accommodate up to 2,025 pupils. There are only 1,459."

It proposes closing both the school and Swanage's Church of England first school, and opening one on a new site which would "respect the faith tradition of St Marks [C of E school] and the ethos of Swanage First School". "It would be committed to inclusive education, where children are welcomed whatever their background," it says.

Paul Mason, the school's headteacher, said: "Swanage will have a Roman Catholic primary school, a new Church of England school and no community school for 16 miles. It's not right." 

... Et le gouvernement britannique envisage d’accorder le statut de «states schools» (au Royaume-Uni on distingue les écoles d’Etat et les écoles privées) à des centaines d’écoles privées religieuses, musulmanes, sikhs et hindous. 

En contrepartie, les écoles seront contraintes de promouvoir de meilleures relations entre les différents groupes ethniques et religieux. 

Les établissements qui continueront à pratiquer officieusement une sélection à l’entrée (basée sur des critères de religion) seront exclus du système public. 

Les syndicats d’enseignants et les associations laïques ont qualifié ce plan «de pure folie». Il conduira, à leur sens, à renforcer la ségrégation sociale. 

Quelque 7000 des 21000 écoles d’Etat d’Angleterre sont religieuses, la plupart sont anglicanes ou catholiques. 

By Graeme Paton, Education Editor - 12/09/2007 -

Ed Balls, the children's minister, said additional money would be made available to allow the hundreds of private religious schools to convert to the state sector.

It is thought the move will lead to a rise in the number of religious places for Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Hindu, Seventh Day Adventist and Greek Orthodox children.

In a speech yesterday, Mr Balls insisted the expansion would be tempered by new rules forcing all schools to promote better race relations and understanding between religious groups.

He also pledged that officials would "root out" any school guilty of using banned admissions rules such as over-complicated application forms and interviewing pupils to discriminate against certain children.

In a further move, he said new privately-sponsored city academies run by faith groups would have to admit at least half of children from other faiths and non-believing families.

Teaching unions and secular groups branded the plans "plain madness" which would fuel social segregation.

But Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, rejected the idea that church schools "indoctrinate" children. "They offer not a programme of indoctrination, but the possibility of developing a greater level of community cohesion through the understanding of how faith shapes common life," he said.

"This matters for the lives of individuals, whether they are believers or not - because the failure to understand how faith operates leaves us at sea in engaging with our neighbours at local and global level."

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, said he welcomed the "public recognition of the contribution made by faith schools to the harmony of our society".

"An ongoing partnership between the Catholic Church and the Government based on the right of Catholic parents - under the Human Rights Act - to choose a Catholic education for their children is a proven way of forming youngsters as good British citizens."

Some 7,000 of the 21,000 state schools in England are religious, with almost all linked to the Anglican and Catholic churches. The schools are popular with parents and many feature among the top of national GCSE and A-level league tables.

However, ministers say there are not enough places for children of other religions, particularly those from Muslim, Sikh and Hindu families.

It is believed that there are 376,000 Muslim children aged between five and 15, but only 1,770 attend England's seven state-funded Muslim schools. Many more pay to attend England's 115 fee-charging private Muslim schools.

A guidance document, Faith in the System, published by the Department for Children, Schools and Families yesterday, said that local councils should "remove unnecessary barriers to the creation of new faith schools" by making it easier for them to convert to the state sector.

Money will come from a mixture of local authority funds and cash direct from Whitehall.

Dr Evan Harris, the Liberal Democrat MP, said the separation of pupils on religious lines was "as unacceptable as racial discrimination and segregation and the last thing this country needs".

By Graeme Paton, Education Editor - 12/09/2007 -

Ministers paved the way for the opening of more Muslim, Sikh and Hindu schools yesterday with a pledge to remove “unnecessary barriers” to religious groups that want to run state education.

Ed Balls, the Children’s Minister, said additional money would be made available to allow the hundreds of private religious schools to convert to the state sector.

It is thought the move will lead to a huge rise in the number of religious places for Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Hindu, Seventh Day Adventist and Greek Orthodox children.

In a speech yesterday, Mr Balls insisted the expansion would be tempered by new rules forcing all schools to promote better race relations and understanding between religious groups.

He also pledged that officials would “root out” any school guilty of using banned tactics such as over-complicated application forms and interviewing pupils to discriminate against certain families.

But the proposals were branded “plain madness” secular groups and teaching unions who fear they will fuel social segregation.

It follows a warning from the Commission for Racial Equality that Britain’s faith schools are “a ticking time bomb waiting to explode”.

Dr Evan Harris, the Liberal Democrat MP, who has campaigned against faith schools, said: “Faith schools’ admissions and employment policies are divisive and discriminatory. They penalise good teachers on the basis of their private beliefs and separate out children along religious lines.

“That is as unacceptable as racial discrimination and segregation and the last thing this country needs.”

Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said: “We need schools which embrace the diversity within our community, not a diversity of schools dividing pupils and staff on religious grounds.”

Almost 7,000 of the 21,000 state schools in England are religious - but almost all are linked to the Anglican and Catholic churches.

It is believed that there are 376,000 Muslim children aged between five and 15, but just 1,770 attend England’s seven state-funded Muslim schools.

A guidance document - Faith in the System - published by the Department for Children, Schools and Families yesterday said that local councils should “remove unnecessary barriers to the creation of new faith schools” where the demand exists.

Under the plan, ministers said they would provide the 115 fee-paying Muslim schools with money to convert to the state sector.

The funds - coming directly from Whitehall - would be used to bring their buildings up to scratch and expand. Other new Jewish, Sikh and Hindu schools could be created in the same way.

Mr Balls denied it would create a segregated education system, insisting that all state schools would have to abide by the Government’s tough new admissions rules.

He also said that new City Academies sponsored by faith groups would have to admit at least half of children from other religions or non-believing families.

The only exemption will be if the academy - an independent state school run by churches, charities and businesses - is replacing an existing faith school.

“Britain is more diverse than it ever has been before,” he said. “This is something which I believe we should welcome. But we have also to recognise that in some parts of the country communities are fragile and divided.

“From this month, all schools now have a duty to promote community cohesion. Many schools - including notable numbers of faith schools - already see this as a fundamental part of their role: promoting greater tolerance and understanding not only within the curriculum, but also by working closely with other schools, with parents and community groups.”

However, some faith schools have been criticised for teaching that homosexuality is a sin, with critics claiming it undermines attempts to eradicate bullying of gay and lesbian pupils.

Speaking at the launch of Faith in the System yesterday, Dr Mohamed Mukadam, chairman of the Association of Muslim Schools, said they should be free to teach according to the tenets of their faith.

The Most Rev Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Birmingham and head of the Catholic Education Service, said it was “very important that bullying is dealt with” but insisted there was a difference “between that and what is taught in the curriculum”. 

Monday, 10 September 2007 -

James Meikle - Monday September 10, 2007 - EducationGuardian.co.uk -