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December 23, 2005
Education? What education?
The cracks are beginning to show in this sham government. Strangely over the attempts, half-hearted and, as usual, half baked, to repair the damage they have done to the education system with their years of denial that mixed ability classes and non-selection for schools has done. The cat is well and truly out of the bag when that complete ignoramus who cannot even string together two words to make an intelligible sentence, weighs in with the demand that the "Toffs" cannot have any privileges.
Lord, spare us this incurable moron!
The Comprehensive School system is fine for children of medium ability. It is useless for those of higher ability and absolutely useless for dealing with those who have difficulty adding up their fingers and toes. Add to this a lack of grouping of children in their appropriate ability ranges into different classes and you have a recipe for mediocrity and failure. The pupils who cannot keep up become disruptive or truants and disrupt the education for everyone else.
Not all of us can afford to send our children for extra lessons or private tuition as can every single member of that house of charlatans called the Palace of Westminster (all courtesy of the huge allowances they regularly vote to themselves at the taxpayers expense) or afford to send their children out of the borough in which they live to a better school, stripping places from the locals so their kids can get the education they deny everyone else. Yes, I do get hot under the collar about this as my children were prevented from taking places at the Grammar Schools in our home Borough, by the flood of Labour MP's kids sent in from the failing Boroughs all around us! They even took our council to court to demand they be given priority placement, something that also sticks very badly in the throat!
So, to have the bloated idiot who disgraces the title of Deputy Prime Minister and who has destroyed everything he has meddled with to date, now getting involved and threatening to lead a revolt against the reforms - half hearted though they are - is nothing less than proof positive that Blair is not in charge of a modern party at all. Rather, he leads a party of reactionary ideologues that is hell bent on dragging us back into some sort of Animal Farm scenario where the "Down trodden workers" can finally have control of the wealth that everyone else has denied them! The fact that half the problems now arising stem from the fact that the so-called Ministers these idiots have promoted are so far out of their depth that it is a wonder they have not yet sunk without trace.
Educational reform? Not likely under this shower so I wouldn't recommend holding your breath. Not until we hear of an ice age starting up in Hell.
Posted by The Gray Monk at December 23, 2005 06:45 PM
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