tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post8562813032471397094..comments2023-11-02T15:48:50.381+00:00Comments on UK Bubble UK Economy: Teachers pretend to teach and kids pretend to pass exams.Alice Cookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05753570123987780947noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-67535233454040351412011-12-09T22:14:10.576+00:002011-12-09T22:14:10.576+00:00The system wants the children to pass tests, not t...The system wants the children to pass tests, not to be educated. Teachers are only doing what the parents want: have marks.se-ponoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-71796873027191013112011-12-09T16:20:03.784+00:002011-12-09T16:20:03.784+00:00Agree its bad obviously, but its not news, we'...Agree its bad obviously, but its not news, we've known it for years.<br /><br />Its another example of how increasing spending dramatically does not automatically produce results. As many idiots like Krugman, Brown, Balls etc suggest it does.<br /><br />We'd be better off cutting school funding, get rid of all the fancy stuff and just get the basics right first.<br /><br />But as I commented else where, one thing that amazes me is that whereas no one takes the governments education or crime figures seriously.<br />Most media and bloggers are only too happy to post graphs of GDP figures, which are just as fake.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-22981652702520040192011-12-09T12:30:25.962+00:002011-12-09T12:30:25.962+00:00This crap story tells us all we need to know about...This crap story tells us all we need to know about progressive britain.The lord Essexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-64098950625325363302011-12-09T12:25:04.348+00:002011-12-09T12:25:04.348+00:00This is a complete joke and makes me feel sick!
F...This is a complete joke and makes me feel sick!<br /><br />Feeding children with the answers may help pas the exams but in the real world they may struggle!Architects in Birminghamhttp://www.lapwortharchitects.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-61067431782722883562011-12-09T11:38:36.465+00:002011-12-09T11:38:36.465+00:00This makes me want to cry. The money has been spe...This makes me want to cry. The money has been spent, the buildings and facilities are there, the hunger for education is widespread. Why should it be necessary to avoid the entire system?<br /><br />I didn't go to Jim's extreme, but our children, like many immigrants children, were returned to their country of origin to go to proper schools; proper state schools, where everyone learned lots of useful stuff.hatfield girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2948538160252327076.post-34929076323775317182011-12-09T09:44:30.462+00:002011-12-09T09:44:30.462+00:00I'm afraid teaching has become a sink professi...I'm afraid teaching has become a sink profession (if you can call it that at all), the last resort for people who are unable to make it in the more demanding professions. I know 3 secondary school teachers, one a head of department, and by their own admission they aren't exactly brains of Britain. You have to be pretty dim these days not to get a degree and PGCE from some 3rd rate ex-polytechnic, and thus not be able to get into teaching.<br /><br />Add in 40-50 years of 'progressive' control of the education system, and bingo - a system that not only is incapable of producing well educated and rounded students, but actively works to make sure that doesn't happen.<br /><br />If I had kids I would sell my body organs rather than let the State educate them.Jimnoreply@blogger.com