Save the UK kids - from their Education Minister!

[Larissa]

I'd really like to think this is a bad joke...
http://www.untitleddocument.co.uk/Issue13/...beyondhelp.html (http://www.untitleddocument.co.uk/Issue13/newschoolchildrenprobablybeyondhelp.html)

"The government cannot, in all conscience, continue to spend money attempting to educate people who don't even have the common sense to go during playtime," she said. "Give them two apples, then give them three more apples, and they don't know how many apples they have. How are they going to complete five A-levels when they can't count that high? Better to stick them on the scrap-heap now, so they can get used to it, and use the money saved to better educate the small percentage who can blow their own noses."

Ahhhhrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggg

[RedFW]

at the very bottom of the page it said this:


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But I am still not fond of Estelle Morris...I think she has resigned now anyway.

[Larissa]

Quote: from RedFW on 9:33 am on Jan. 25, 2003
at the very bottom of the page it said this:


Nothing on these pages is true. All questions, comments, contributions and requests for the removal of defamatory material should be sent to:

But I am still not fond of Estelle Morris...I think she has resigned now anyway. OMG ! I haven't seen that "small print".
However, I think this pictures most capitalists thoughts.

[RedFW]

I definitely agree, and I think the policies Estelle Morris put forward when she was Minister of Education represented exactly what the article you posted was getting at, even though the comments themselves were false.

[Eastside Revolt]

"Many of the four- and five-year-olds entering British schools are illiterate."

So was I, doesn't mean I was bound to be a complete failiure.

[RedFW]

lol...good point, and the last time I checked, four and five year olds in most countries were illiterate. I think the point is that Estelle Morris wanted, IIRC, children who didn't demonstrate academic talent by the age of 14? to leave regular school and get trained in something "useful" like plumbing, which may benefit some young people, but to say that all who are not doing exceptionally well would be better off excluded is ridiculous, and I think that is why I found the article so funny.

[Moskitto]

i think children should be allowed to leave school when they've finished year 9, if they're bad at it then they should be given the option to have training in a job they could be good at, and if they just don't care about school and don't want anyone else to learn dump them in the army, not for combat at first, train them up good then they could go into combat, save school for people who actually want to learn, doing business studies for 2 years where half of every lesson is the teacher yelling at the back 3 rows (there were 4 rows, 3 on front row) is not very productive.

[RedFW]

I agree, but I think some young people have so much crap going on in their personal lives they are distracted and cannot learn and/or people learn in different ways and at different paces. The current system, IMHO, teaches uniformly and the work doesn't seem to be adjusted to the students and their needs, which is what I think is the point of education, otherwise only those who learn at the pace and in the ways particular to the current system are the those learning.

I also think policies like this have a tendency to be aimed at poorer areas with failing schools. This is implemented rather than addressing why the school is failing the children.

[James]

hahaha, that site's very funny

[James]

hahaha,

"Funny Any More, Yoda Jokes Officially Are Not
Humorous no longer, jokes on Yoda syntax based aren't. Basically annoying they have become, but realise this some people do not. Done to death, the simplistic formula for so-called humour has been, experts they say. "Torn the arse out of it, we have," says comic John Lampard. "Sick to fucking death of it, audiences are. But able to stop myself, I don't seem to be." Disappointed he admits to being, because only impression he can do, it is. "Are you talking to me? Are you, talking, to me?" lamely he tried, but sound like Ronald Reagan it did. Sorry I am. Stop now I will."