Originally Posted by bb the great

i have to disagree with most of you.

Im currently in university so ive recently been through the whole education system this country has to offer.

i think that at age 16 (year of gcse finals) a small percentage of the students would be more than capable of having a valued opinion that should be taken into considderation. We had a school council, i certainly wasnt mature enough to sit at it, but there were alot of people that were capable of making a sensible decision if they were asked to, normally the girls!

As for the whole point of a teacher being able to teach even if they are not liked: in my experinece i have never had good results from a teacher i did not get on with. Maths, electronics and aeronautics are my strong points, my maths teacher at uni is nuts, running round the class cracking jokes. Electronics: he would tell us his boy hood stories for half the lesson, swearing was common place in our class room, he was literally like one of the boys. He managed to achieve with my class more than anyone in the uk could do, 95% A grades for a/s level. At maths i got 85% at university,but with my boring and mindnumbing a level teacher i failed and got a 'u' .

I find that everyone i speak to on my course holds similar opinions.