Whilst middle aged people and our increasing numbers of mature citizens have whined about falling educational standards in todays school, Choughworld can reveal that standards have always been poor in liberal leftie state schools.
Said Choughworld's Proprietor and Chief Editor Mrs R.Chough "I am shocked by the poor standard of English exhibited by some researchers. It would appear that standards in Grammer have always been poor and is not a recent issue."
This has also concerned Choughworld's lead educational reporter, Mr E.Grammar who noted "With the falling numbers of children entering private education there will be the need to create huge numbers of places in state schools. If state schools cannot teach the basics to the number of children currently employed at schools, how will they manage the increased numbers?"
We pose the following questions to our readers; should the birch be brought back into state schools to drive up educational standards? should we sack our current group of researchers? should state schools refuse entry to children from families that voted UKIP?
You decide.
Speaking as an enthusiastic pedant, what shocks me is that there are simply fewer and fewer rules that hardly anyone understands anymore.
ReplyDeletePerhaps I should start making some up?
Is it that there are fewer rules or just that fewer people, like myself, who are aware of them?
ReplyDeleteWhilst some claim it is just laziness, in my case, it is just ignorance.
Is a rule that nobody knows about a rule at all? Once the number of people who know obscure and pointless rules falls below a certain number, it's hard to pedant it. Although I did correct Fluffsec's Latin yesterday so there's still hope.
DeleteWhy ask me, I'm an ignorant Geordie. I think my schooling was good on the sense that I can actually read, which for a Northerners is quite an achievement in itself.
DeleteTo be fair you corrected Google Translate's Latin
DeleteWoe betide he who steps outside the approved sources of information (Wikipedia, Twitter).
DeleteSexist pig, what about us female contributors
DeleteYou can ask your husband to check it for you.
DeleteI for one will not rise to the oh-so-obvious bait in the main article. You know of what I speak.
ReplyDeleteStanderds are slipping. The start of the slippery slope was after I started school. Times Tables went, one ex-work colleague really struggled with spelling. She had been taught to intially spell phonetically, and on the assumption that with the basic building blocks in place, the correct spelling would be overlaid. Complete pelau (wrth gwrs). Learn it proper, right from the start! More latterly, teachers were told not to mark pupils down for mis-spelling, concentrate on the content.
I believe there was also a theory that children could also catch reading, just by giving them a book. Give the teachers a book on Greek and see how they go on at getting fluent.
At the risk of this turning into the Daily Moan, the way they teach maths annoys me.
DeleteFor me, maths was a rather dull affair of mechanically calculating sums and remembering time tables. For school children now it's a bewildering subject where they have to intuit the answer, rather than get taught the dull grind of working them out.
As a typical Daily Male reader, I can confirm 1 + 1 = too much immigration
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