‘I don’t think you should underestimate students’ capacity or even their ambitions for taking on language’ ... Simon Armitage.‘I don’t think you should underestimate students’ capacity or even their ambitions for taking on language’ ... Simon Armitage.Poet laureate Simon Armitage and former children’s laureate Michael Rosen are among the top UK poets decrying the government’s decision to make poetry optional for GCSE students next year, describing it as “a dangerous first step”.
Had we had the option, we would have dropped Shakespeare as it text we have covered least so far. Poetry we have covered about two thirds in detail but we have covered A Christmas Carol and Inspector Calls fully. Decision to drop poetry anthology was pragmatic
I also find it hilarious that when they try to take poetry away all the poets and adults get enraged but when they spend YEARS butchering all the joy in reading poetry and dont even bother with writing poetry none of you say a WORD. Most students hate poetry BECAUSE of the gcse!
School curriculum choices should be based on the utility of the knowledge and skills gained in students' lives (including personal lives, social lives and work) and to society. It should not be based on 'what we've always done' or on 'subjects that important person enjoys'.
I have absolutely no respect for opinions on what the school curriculum should look like that are entirely based on enforcing the subjects that the speaker happens to enjoy on every child in Britain
'It's DANGEROUS that the government isn't FORCING thousands of 15 year-olds to study this thing during a pandemic on the basis that I like this thing!!'
How insanely warped do your priorities have to be to believe that giving students the choice to not study poetry is 'dangerous'
Thought the picture was starmer with a shit hair doo
No coincidence that this 'react now, backtrack later' government' gets almost everything wrong.
Well I wasn't particularly interested in Shakespeare but we studied Romeo and Juliet twice over the course of secondary school. How about expanding the horizons beyond the Bard?
Poetry teaches an appreciation for the beauty, power and subtlety of language. It is a distillation of human feelings about ourselves and the world in which we live. Not a very clever decision.
Of course he is, he probably gets most of his money from students unwillingly buying his collections only to end up hating poetry because they’re forced to dissect every line
So maybe they should avoid the sound timeless moral lessons of An Inspector Calls or A Christmas Carol instead?
I don't think pupils would choose to avoid the poetry question because they dislike poetry - it's the format of studying 15 and then any one could crop up on the paper, and has to be compared to another of the 15, without a copy of the poem in view. What are we actually testing?
kira_millana That’s because students with ability in maths and science are prioritised over students with ability in the arts.
Only because his career would go down the toilet without them doing poetry...
It'a also odd that now it has been revealed nearly 40% of a-level students in England will be downgraded, suddenly all the (mainly English) twitterers calling for ResignSturgeon have scuttled away in silence, and aren't calling for ResignBoris...
If poetry is optional what are the other options?
I get why the decision for next year but it should not be a permanent change because to have a full understanding of literature you do need poetry.
An entire article where everyone misses the point. It's vital the lit exam is slimmed down for the mental health of students, and schools can still choose to do the poetry. If schools had known this would happen most likely they'd jettison the C19th novel.
Ah yes, academic poetry. Or - how to put a name on everything and stifle creativity.
I can't think of any reason to force poetry down people's throats ... and I'm a poetry lover.
taking out classics so they can pivot to math and science instead........ because so many low income/ POC kids received such high-quality educations in those subjects in middle/ high school 😑
Ask the kids, they won't care, poetry made them despair,
Dangerous? They’ve missed 4 months of learning in the classroom. It’s for one year only and it’s a choice between poetry or 2 novels they’ve studied. It was impossible to cover everything with the time we’ve missed. Plus they’ll still be answering questions on unseen poems anyway
It'll go the way as Classics - a preserve of the public school privileged.
'People have reached for poetry like a lifeline in this pandemic.' They have? Do you mean 'masks'? ' People have reached for masks like a lifeline in this pandemic'.
If I were Imtiaz Dharker and responsible for 'Tissue' I probably wouldn't pipe up on this one.
Very dangerous! I mean, in 2024 they could make maths and science optional! Grow up. It's poetry. It SHOULD be optional. Like drama and music. It should be pursued if you're interested.
'dangerous'! Definitely a poet not a logician.
'dangerous'! Definitely a poetic not a logician.
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