I should have known. The Thomas Deacon School, the one being built with no playgrounds (and with the absurd number of 2,200 pupils) was designed by someone who has form:
Thomas Deacon, designed by the renowned architect
Lord Foster, is replacing three schools in Peterborough. When it opens
in September it will be one of the country’s biggest city academies.
Academies are state schools which are independent of local authority
control and sponsored by private firms.
Prospective
pupils and their parents only learned at a meeting last week that
although the school will feature such innovations as a "wetland
eco-pool", it will not have a traditional outdoor area where children
could play games or run around.
Has the man ever built anything that works on a human scale? Museums, factories and offices are entirely different from schools…I just find it absolutely fascinating that groupthink could progress so far.
Any random parent could tell you that children, especially boys, need to run around and let off steam. How could such a monstrosity ever be built at all? And as Mr. Chalk says, what’s this with a school so large that it will be impossible for any teacher to actually know who the pupils are?
What, schools are just factories for learning? We should have 10,000 placers? Worked so well when homes were just factories fo living, didn’t it?
Dr Alan McMurdo, the principal of the academy, said:
"Research has shown that if children concentrate on lessons throughout
the day, then their work improves.
"We are not intending to have any play time. Pupils won’t need to let off steam because they will not be bored."
What a complete cock!
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