Well creeky, I'm pleased you've been happy with the teachers you've encountered however......

As to the curriculum constantly changing, who provoked the changes? "Experts" who convinced "governments" to make changes and just where did those "experts" come from? = Academia!

Until I became a full time ebayer (!!!) I had a shop and the people I had the most "trouble" with were teachers and social workers. Talk about thick and lacking basic knowledge not to mention an ignorant attitude and in trying to be pleasant in the face of their inabilities they read that as "patronising".

In Wales, the emphasis is on learning Welsh and all things Welsh and some of the teachers are thoroughly unpleasant in the face of parents trying to ensure a good standard of English. I accept that there should be some understanding of the language and that it should be encouraged to live on but when you watch the news and see children in schools in Africa and the Indian continent speaking to reporters, what language are those children speaking? Not Welsh anyway! I wonder why "Explore Learning" has such a good attendence with children from enlightened parents?