Alternative provision in Bromley run by an academy trust helps pupils with SEND struggling in mainstream settings to achieve vocational qualifications.
filter the students. i m here with richard from queens. he has a question about alternative curriculum. about school choice in regards to schools that think outside of the box. yes. i wanted to know, for students who do more open-minded thinking rather than recitation from textbooks, will we be seeing better implementation of free thought in our schools instead of just reading what s on a paper and telling you to recite it over and over again? in this whole debate on charter schools or voucher schools, we re for getting there s incredibly creative programs in our public schools that didn t mean people had to shut it down and reopen it. we re doing things in my home state, there was a high school that said we re going to be a magnet school for finance as a prep school for kids going into that field.
size fits all program. one size fits all curriculum. and so what the legislature has done in new hampshire is they have said we re going to return power back to the parents and so if parents object, if they don t like what s going on in the classroom, then they can say that they object and then the school district is then required to create an alternative curriculum that meets the needs of parents. ok. and if they do create that alternative curriculum, then the parents are going to have to pony up the cash to pay for it. is this in response to over the last couple of years, we ve heard a number of parents and parents group rise up and say the agenda is too liberal. we want some balance in the schools. is that what this is? i think it is. because it s interesting, there was huge majorities past this in the legislature. the democratic governor vetoed it saying he was going to create a burden on the schools. and they actually overwrote his veto by huge majorities and i