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Thread #120710   Message #2628499
Posted By: bubblyrat
10-May-09 - 04:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: UK Education:Too Many Clever People?
Subject: RE: BS: UK Education:Too Many Clever People?
Yes,well that doesn't help either !! "Year Six" ?? What the fuck is that ?? Some trendy American crap ?? Personally, I was in the "First Form", or the "Fourth Form ", or,indeed,the "Upper Sixth". Where this other shite came from, God only knows !!Try taking a look at education in Britain when I was at school,in the late fifties/early sixties ( Midhurst Grammar School,Sussex,and Henley Grammar School, Oxfordshire), and you might get some idea of just how GOOD our educational system and standard of teaching used to be-----until the trendy,liberal,let-them-express-themselves-they-don't - need- to learn-their-tables-or-Shakespeare's-sonnets -off-by-heart-as-long-as-we-know-what-they-are-trying-to-say-grammar-and-spelling-don't-matter bunch of educational Dildos gained power !!Talk about Collective National Educational Suicide----we are well on the way to that,I fear!!