More than half (51 per cent) noted
reduced curriculum options and 47 per cent less enrichment activities in the last year, rising to 54 per cent expecting cuts over the next year in both categories.
A balanced
curriculum With children required to study EBacc subjects to GCSE level, it's easy to see that the creative pathways for our school children are disappearing, which will slowly result in funding for creative subject areas being cut, leading to
options for our children being vastly
reduced.
Critics charge that school - to - work programs displace basic skills and academic instruction, are impractical and wasteful, invade family privacy, narrow student
options, promote societal change (by
reducing ability grouping, integrating reshaping traditional gender roles, etc.), and allow the national government to shape school
curricula and children's futures.