What It Was Like Being Taught by Chinese Teachers in the UK: BBC

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I am sorry I did bot have time this afternoon. Yu have read the report. Here are notations.


Daniel Rosney, What It Was Like Being Taught by Chinese Teachers in the UK. BBC, Aug 4, 2015
www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/3 ... -teachers-in-the-uk
("Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School: Trailer - BBC Two")

Note:
(a) "No seating plan, no excuse needed for not doing homework and most importantly you can basically do whatever you want without risk of detention."
(i) school discipline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_discipline
(section 3 Detention)
(ii) Schools and Education. GOV.UK, undated has, among other things, such topics:
(A) Types of School
https://www.gov.uk/types-of-school
("1. Overview[:] All children in England between the ages of 5 and 16 are entitled to a free place at a state school.  Most state [ie, not private] schools have to follow the national curriculum")
(B) "School Uniform[:] Each school decides its uniform * * * The head teacher can discipline your child for not wearing the school uniform. Your child can be suspended or expelled if they repeatedly ignore the uniform rules."
(C) School Discipline and Exclusions
https://www.gov.uk/school-discipline-exclusions/discipline
("Punishments[:] Schools can punish pupils if they behave badly.  Examples of punishments (sometimes called ‘sanctions’) include: * * * detention[.]  Detention[:] Schools don’t have to give parents notice of after-school detentions or tell them why a detention has been given")


(b) "Bohunt School took part in a unique experiment and hired five teachers from China to be Year 9 teachers for one month."

In United Kingdom, pupils enter year 1 at age 5, which is part of primary school.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_school

Quote:

"The term primary school is derived from the French école primaire, which was first used in 1802.
• Primary school is the preferred term in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth Nations, and in most publications of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).[2]
• Elementary school is preferred in some countries, especially in North America.

(c) "The teachers were thrown in the deep end a bit and weren't as strict as we thought they were going to be. [Yet] Compared to teachers in English schools they were definitely strict."

deep end
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_End
(may refer to: The deeper part of a swimming pool)
(d) "When they first came we thought we could muck about."

muck
www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/muck
(phrase  muck about /around: “informal , chiefly British Behave in a silly or aimless way, especially by wasting time when serious activity is expected <he spent his summers mucking about in boats>”)