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Forum: Italy
Jan 17th 2015, 2:43 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Those not in the know think that if you're bilingual you're also a born translator and have a certificate in simultaneous interpreting!
Forum: Italy
Nov 13th 2014, 8:07 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

At that age they pick things up very quickly. Knowing two languages may slow him down a bit at the beginning but it'll be an enormous advantage later on. Bilingual children also learn a third...
Forum: Italy
Nov 12th 2014, 3:06 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Fantastic Italian!
La ringrazio della Sua osservazione che(?) ho già provveduto a togliere dalla scheda di sua figlia la errata annotazione.
Forum: Italy
Nov 10th 2014, 2:13 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

I'm probably talking crap here, but seeing that "stile I" is mentioned, maybe in this case "dorso" isn't backstroke but just the back. Then "gb" could just be short for "gambe", while "busto" =...
Forum: Italy
Oct 1st 2014, 11:07 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

I haven't any direct experience of sending kids to school in Italy, but when I go to vote in the local elementary school I see the walls absolutely covered with the kids' work, so the bare walls...
Forum: Italy
Sep 30th 2014, 6:28 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Literature shouldn't be so Anglo-centric, I agree, but you mention 50 different authors. I studied English literature only up to O level (fore-runner of GCSE), but what we did was study a small...
Forum: Italy
Sep 29th 2014, 4:24 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Yes, I think we should take a balanced view. I'm not doubting any of the stories told here but we should be careful not to make the forum a place for letting off steam about "the Italians",...
Forum: Italy
Sep 26th 2014, 1:56 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Of course there are, I've met plenty, and they don't think much of the time-servers.
Forum: Italy
Sep 9th 2014, 8:36 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

So true! And sooner or later they'll be teaching the history of history: births and deaths of historians!:D
Forum: Italy
Sep 8th 2014, 2:44 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Maybe this comes from the "Anglo-Saxon" love of "pragmatism and common sense and who needs a philosophy?" But actually that is just another philosophy, a way of seeing and interpreting the world.
As...
Forum: Italy
Aug 29th 2014, 9:37 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Very instructive, Lorna, for me too, as an old-time Brit (I finished school in 1968). In my time there was no national curriculum. There were various exam-setting commissions formed by the...
Forum: Italy
Aug 8th 2014, 6:31 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

I didn't know this but it doesn't surprise me in the least. And even honest politicans, if they exist and really have something worth saying, shouldn't be paid at all for speaking, considering all...
Forum: Italy
Jun 27th 2014, 6:09 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

"Melting pot"? Probably the teacher had only learnt it the day before. It reminds me of when my stepdaughter was at liceo classico and the English teacher got annoyed (!) with the class because no...
Forum: Italy
Jun 6th 2014, 12:24 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

But I'd make sure the journalist doesn't concentrate on the difficulties that foreigners have because they're foreign. I think Italian parents have the same difficulties, but they accept the system...
Forum: Italy
Jun 5th 2014, 7:21 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

I'm afraid this is the general Italian approach to organising things. The British like to plan things well ahead so that everyone has time to prepare, fit in other commitments etc. If you propose the...
Forum: Italy
Apr 30th 2014, 1:55 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Scandalous! Or maybe pathetic's the right word. But I vaguely heard something the other day about similar things happening in Italy. I must investigate...
Forum: Italy
Apr 24th 2014, 1:11 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

If I were dishonest I'd say that for the following year you can scan the medical certificate for the doctor's signature and rubber stamp and re-write the rest.
But I'm honest, so I won't suggest...
Forum: Italy
Feb 5th 2014, 10:10 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

Passport photos aren't so pricey here in Milan. I paid €4 at the photographer's across the road a few months ago.
For stationery, try the supermarkets. Esselunga has much lower prices than...
Forum: Italy
Jan 23rd 2014, 4:22 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

It helps if you forget the word physiologist.:D
Forum: Italy
Nov 20th 2013, 6:47 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

We Anglophones have a monstrous pronunciation of French words - the French would never recognise the word Peugeot as pronounced by us. But the Italians are equally bad with French and refuse to...
Forum: Italy
Sep 24th 2013, 7:39 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

I've taught in a state school and it can get a bit annoying to have kids going in and out all the time, but you can't say no. A lot of problems would be solved if they had a longer break - in that...
Forum: Italy
Sep 13th 2013, 9:40 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

I think a hard time is what they get. Legally obliged, I don't think so. But if the kid doesn't know the answer to a question he'll be told it's because he hasn't bought the text-book. Also the kid...
Forum: Italy
Sep 13th 2013, 8:14 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

All these materials that have to be bought... if you tell people that in British schools the text-books are the property of the school and you don't pay anything as long as you hand them back in good...
Forum: Italy
Feb 5th 2013, 6:12 am
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

The idea of cramming a day's teaching into the morning is to allow teachers to do another job in the afternoon. You're not going to get much sense out of a teacher who can't wait to get away at the...
Forum: Italy
Dec 13th 2012, 1:13 pm
Replies: 2,578
Views: 260,020
Posted By jonwel

Re: Schools, teachers, kids and parents. Education in general.

There's a lot of boasting by Italians about how much money they spend, it's not always true. Bu they're also spending their savings as fast as they can go and sooner or later they'll come to an end....
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