tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post5059341109852928326..comments2023-06-11T13:12:20.435+01:00Comments on The Anger of a Quiet Man: Not nearly harshly enough.Quiet_Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09575652127079681825noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-72301958430970108092012-08-25T00:50:53.672+01:002012-08-25T00:50:53.672+01:00^ deleted for corrrection
@Humph My city is awash...^ deleted for corrrection<br /><br /><b>@Humph</b> My city is awash with roaming gangs of girls, most of them claiming to be unemployed hairdressers.<br />The reason for this is that they spend two years at (6th form) College learning hairdressing by <b>coursework</b> ie <i>teach, exam, forget</i> emerging with what is claimed to be an "Apprenticeship" in their chosen trade.<br /><br />Sadly hair salon Supremeos regard these as worse than useless since they instill the girls with ideas of worth above their station and would rather take a trainee fresh off the streets and without any bad habits to start with.bannedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406037760273820029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3875365454966245098.post-58264154838964694132012-08-24T10:18:05.923+01:002012-08-24T10:18:05.923+01:00People who got straight A's in my day were we...People who got straight A's in my day were weirdoes, generally speaking. And they were few and far between.<br /><br />The introduction of 'coursework' seems to have had a large part to play in all this. God I wish I'd had the option to score as you go rather than having it down to a 3 hour all-or-nothing exam.<br /><br />The same has happened across the board as well. I have 2 professional quals which used to require numerous exam passes at each stage before you could progress to the next - pass 3 and fail 1 meant you had to re-take the whole lot. Now you can just pick and choose 1 or 2 exams and do them as and when you feel like it.<br /><br />As you say, kids can clearly not become exponentially smarter year in year out. Teaching has demonstrably not become that much better. There are not huge amounts of more kids going to private schools. State schools are as under resourced as they ever were. And time and time again we hear from business employers how young recruits can't string a sentence together or work out a percentage of something.<br /><br />The inevitable conclusion is that the system was fixed before, and now is going some way back towards a semblance of reality (though still has a long way to go). For the teaching profession to now start saying that this year's results are fixed is fucking laughable. But you'd expect nothing less from the leftie cretins who infest that profession.Humphnoreply@blogger.com