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Sep. 27th, 2007 07:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyApparently I won't be doing the educational study that I had in mind, which is... disappointing.
I have spoken to my professional tutor about it and he doesn't consider that it would be of use to the school, doesn't think I could speak to pupils about it and doesn't consider that any staff would give me more than one word answers. So unless I can come up with a slant to it that he feels would be of use, I won't be doing it.
I can see where he's coming from; I was considering it from too academic a perspective, I think. Still, it's disappointing, and has answered at least one of the questions I was hoping to answer: it would seem that LGBT pupils would indeed be disadvantaged by going to a secondary school with sixth form (11-18) rather than a seperate sixth form college (17-18).
I'm going to speak to the teacher that covers sex ed and such anyway, see if there are any resources should questions be raised in lessons (with an entirely possible subsidiary question of 'if not, why not?')
It was kind of hard to take as a reaction; I felt like an idiot for suggesting it, although I'm not sure if that was due to the reaction it received or because the refusal (and the implication that it was unimportant as an issue) brought up a lot of the problems I had with the issue when I was just coming to terms with it myself. Also there was the feeling that accepting his dismissal was kind of... betraying queerdom, in a way. However I'm an adult, and nothing has proved that more than being able to weigh up the sides of this argument and decide that I am not wrong but that my position as trainee teacher (essentially powerless and at the whim of the school) means that it's something I should address later. And I will.
I have spoken to my professional tutor about it and he doesn't consider that it would be of use to the school, doesn't think I could speak to pupils about it and doesn't consider that any staff would give me more than one word answers. So unless I can come up with a slant to it that he feels would be of use, I won't be doing it.
I can see where he's coming from; I was considering it from too academic a perspective, I think. Still, it's disappointing, and has answered at least one of the questions I was hoping to answer: it would seem that LGBT pupils would indeed be disadvantaged by going to a secondary school with sixth form (11-18) rather than a seperate sixth form college (17-18).
I'm going to speak to the teacher that covers sex ed and such anyway, see if there are any resources should questions be raised in lessons (with an entirely possible subsidiary question of 'if not, why not?')
It was kind of hard to take as a reaction; I felt like an idiot for suggesting it, although I'm not sure if that was due to the reaction it received or because the refusal (and the implication that it was unimportant as an issue) brought up a lot of the problems I had with the issue when I was just coming to terms with it myself. Also there was the feeling that accepting his dismissal was kind of... betraying queerdom, in a way. However I'm an adult, and nothing has proved that more than being able to weigh up the sides of this argument and decide that I am not wrong but that my position as trainee teacher (essentially powerless and at the whim of the school) means that it's something I should address later. And I will.
