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  Interesting post this.
  
  My personal experience of school from the 60's to the 70's was a slow descent into complete ambivalence to the teaching.
  
  The only part I enjoyed was doing voluntary service around the village instead of the nightmare of football / x-country etc, out on cold, soaked fields.
  
  The last year of school (1978) was a godsend, I was able to pursue my own path without constraint in the 6th form and excelled in Photography, Art and in the end of year Revue; plus home economics came in and in the CCF I got to pilot a plane over Wales.
  
  The curriculum went to the wall and I felt far better for it, however it all came to an abrupt end when jobsearching with only 4 'O' levels and 2 'CSE's', I wish I had had the elbow grease to get down to the job in hand then.
  
  I am now in the part of parent with two children at secondary school and am attending classes again myself to get an insight into the teaching methods and the path they are now following that is so different from my own experience; I hope to be able to grasp the nettle of education again for their sakes and have even been back to my old scool (with my kids) after a long time (30yrs)...finding that so much has changed for the better.
  
  I do not profess to understand it at all and can only hope that it will prepare them for their future, the lot I went through certainly did not seem at all relevant at the time.

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