Jamie's Dream School

Recently I began watching the television series Jamie's Dream School. I personally disagree with some of the comments that Jamie makes such as "if you don't get 5 A-C GCSE's you are on your knees". I found this comment incredibly irresponsible. If a teenager does not get all five there are always other options such as foundation courses and key skills, so to bark this at these young people without checking his facts is terrible. 


Another issue I have with the program is that they seem to be blaming the teenagers "failure" entirely on the school. In some cases yes maybe the school did not do the best job, but in my opinion in schools it is roughly a 50/50 mix of teaching quality and the students attitude and motivation learn. The teenagers that are on this show have been called "ferrel" even by Jamie and have no manners or concept of being quiet when someone else is speaking or listening. One student bunked off school for most of his academic career and blamed the school for not learning anything!!!


Finally the main thing that bothers me is that Jamie Oliver actually thinks he can do a better job at teaching than a trained professional and quite frankly I think that is incredibly arrogant. He has set up this dream school with some of the best academic minds in the country spending god knows how much money to do this and claiming this is how teenagers should be taught. Has he even thought how unrealistic this is?


Anyway on a brighter note I absolutely love the illustrations that appear in the opening sequence of the program. They were done by Hanne berkaak

Here is an advert for the programme:

Jamie's Dream School from Hanne berkaak on Vimeo.