BBC's excellent experiment taking the choirmaster to a school where the boys were way behind girls in literacy.
Results were amazing. Partly because Gareth taught the boys in their way and also because he concentrated on literacy for 8 weeks with them. The reaction by my 6 year old son's teacher was that :
1. she did not believe boys needed teaching differently to girls (wrong - and there are neuroscience tests that prove that now!)
2. She wished she had more time to teach literacy (so leaves it to us!). Scrap French for 5 year olds if there isn't enough time for English I say and all the extra curricula stuff and general messing around. Get teaching.....
