What's hatching? - personal needs

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Wednesday, March 29, 2000

I am in nursery teaching, and I'm angry. Why on earth have we been spending so much time, effort and money turning our education system into a form of intensive farming? Our schools are like battery farms, in which we are force-feeding our chickens (otherwise known as children) into producing more and more identical and hugely marketable eggs (otherwise known as the 'results'). The trouble is, when the eggs are opened and examined closely, the contents are not too wonderful. They are poor quality, tasteless, colourless, and of limited nutritional value and sometimes they are even dangerous.