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Holland Park School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form in Holland Park, London, England. In 2013, it attained academy status.〔(Holland Park School: ''Academy Status'' ) Linked 2014-02-07〕 Opened in 1958, the school became the flagship for comprehensive education, and in its heyday had over 2,000 students. A number of high-profile socialists sent their children to Holland Park School, and it became known as "the socialist Eton". The Labour politician Tony Benn and his wife Caroline notably sent all four of their children to the school.〔(The Independent, 14 November 2012: ''Too cool for a school: 'Socialist Eton' moves into new buildings with facilities to rival the real thing'' ) Linked 2014-02-07〕 ==Education at Holland Park== In the 1960s and 1970s, the Holland Park School philosophy was to ensure large student numbers (over 1900) with the idea that the resulting size would enable more subject choices for the students. Indeed, amongst the more typical foreign languages Latin, Russian and Spanish were taught. In the early 1960s, each school year was divided into A, B, C, D, and E streams up until the 3rd year. As the groups were so large, they were again divided, typically into 3. Later the "A" "B" etc. grading was considered to be bad for children's self-esteem, so "A" "B" and "C" were replaced by "H" "P" and "S" (Holland Park School). Nowadays, the banding system is divided into 4 bands, each with 3 levels inside them. In 1970 streaming was totally scrapped in favour of total egalitarianism. Another aspect of egalitarian thought was that many school traditions were scrapped and in the 1970s there were no awards for academic achievement, in order not to demoralise low achievers. Dr Rushworth who became head in 1971 nevertheless favoured high achievement in niche areas, and himself continued to teach Latin to children who requested lessons. His motto was "Everyone should know about everything," and critics saw this as leading to a dumbing down of the curriculum.〔http://eddie.idx.com.au/2005/84hobson.html〕 The theory was that poorly achieving students would perform better if not segregated, but rather immersed in an equal learning environment. Some argue that such an educational philosophy causes teaching to drop to the lowest common denominator, and in the 1990s the school began to revert to more traditional teaching practices. Loyalists of the egalitarian approach argue that the experiment was never given a proper chance: Holland Park was the only fully comprehensive school in a borough where middle class parents tended to favour private schools. Therefore, by definition, it was a sink school and thus some argue that the comprehensive experiment was never fully realised. Critics counter that the school was on a downward spiral and "more of the same" would only have worsened the situation. They hold that the school's improved performance when it returned to more traditional values is evidence the comprehensive experiment was doomed from the outset. "Traditionally, relatively few lower school pupils progressed to the sixth form; rather, it was established practice for pupils to join the Holland Park sixth form from other London schools." This viewpoint differs from some experience in the mid-1960s when sixty or more fifth formers joined either the lower sixth on A level studies, or another thirty joined 6G that represented students on retakes of O levels or additional O levels, or Technical studies. These were joined by a smattering of imported socialists and academics such as the MP Roy Jenkins' son. In their current web-site, the school treats it as mainly or entirely a parental responsibility that pupils should be "well-spoken". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Holland Park School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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