About Schools

Résumé du livre

"Across Canada schools and students are in trouble. Students are indifferent and drop out; teachers are loaded with pedagogical apparatus and jargon that mean nothing in the day-to-day realities of the classroom; parents are bewildered by the new courses and approaches. Robert Stamp tells what is going wrong and recommends several solutions: more freedom, less fettered teaching, but above all, community involvement." The local public school is one of few remaining institutions deeply influencing the families it serves where provision has not been made for the people concerned to help shape policy. We shouldn't be supposed when parents demand some influence."