A cunting for 21st century edumacation.
Firstly, a disclaimer; I’m not a philistine, and I’m a graduate, but i don’t think many graduates really think beyond getting a degree, and fewer seem to bother reading anything beyond clickbait crap. I have this very unfashionable, elitist view that not everyone should go to university, or even study for A’ levels.
After watching the ultimately mediocre teenagers celebrating 10 A-stars in gender-bending and performance studies, culinary arts and fashion design, it seems the number of kiddywinks getting ‘A’ has dropped to its lowest level since 2007.
I thought that was good news, as perhaps the grade inflation under Blair had been reversed. This is only half-true; It emerges that the mark needed to get an A in Maths is now a paltry 55%, and an A* is 72%.
Physics students are awarded an A at 59%. The exam board are just pandering to the indulgent middle-class parents. Nowadays, everyone is an Einstein, or, to be more patronising and modern, everyone is a Professor Brian Cox. ‘Space is brillian’, int it?’
Gove’s reforms have fallen short. Same old faux-egalitarianism as Anthony Lynton Blair’s work avoidance scheme.
These are supposedly the hard subjects, where standards and rigour matter, where nature is the arbiter of truth, not some blue-haired munter who has an opinion on fat shaming. The figures for Gender and Media studies, Performing arts, Lesbian dance and the GNVQ in pet beauty therapy arent mentioned; turning up to 50% of lessons probably gets the little darlings a B.
This is all pretty worrying when you look at the numeracy and literacy rates of UK school leavers from 2014 compared to the late 1990s and how they compared with developed nations.
In the late nineties, amongst OECD countries, the UK was 7th for literacy.
By 2014 and under 13 years of Blairite ‘education, education, education’ literacy rates had plummetted to 23rd out of 24.
In my experience, most of my contemporaries who left school at 16 with pretty much no further academic training have better spelling, punctuation and grammar than a lot of the humanities graduates I’ve encountered since, and probably better than most current Hollywood screenwriters.
If your standards are set so fucking low, and yet fewer half-witted, overindulged, phone addict children meet those standards, it’s no wonder that what passes for discourse on social media resembles the logical and verbal coherency of a fire in a zoo.
Get taught values and what to think, rather than skills and how to think.
Fucking snowflakes and their piss-poor, right-on, semi-literate, mediocrity-worshipping education.
Cunts.
Nominated by Cuntamus Prime