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http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,43-2003312376,00.html
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It's the Richard Littlejohn article from today's Sun 'newspaper'.
Forget who wrote it, though, and what credibility he does or doesn't have. Just have a read.
Make sure you look at the larger version of the picture, too.
Laughable or what?
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It's the Richard Littlejohn article from today's Sun 'newspaper'.
Forget who wrote it, though, and what credibility he does or doesn't have. Just have a read.
Make sure you look at the larger version of the picture, too.
Laughable or what?
Whatever you think of the guy, he's right. My mum recently retired from being a classroom assistant for literacy, maths and science. The irony was that her qualifications we're actually higher than a good 75% of the teaching staff in the school, and she regularly had to correct literacy and numerical mistakes made by the teacher whose class she was in.
Take this as an example. One day the teacher was demonstrating division, y'know 100/2 = 50 etc, except all 5 examples he gave the kids were wrong. And these were stupid basic mistakes, one of which was 0/10=10. Honestly, you wouldn't believe some of the stuff she talked about when she came home at the end of the day. And yes, the school also has a special needs assistant for whom english is a second language. Now to me that is know problem, but I do think that when you are supposed to be helping kids who need help that your english should be good and clear enough for them to understand. League tables have made it all worse, one example from this school was a special needs kid getting the highest level possible in maths and english and science in the SATS, yet the rules for helping children do not allow the science paper to be read to them. They have to read it. Slight obvious problem is that said kid cannot read more than about three words and is on the lowest grade reading books there is.
There are kids leaving for secondary school who can barely read. Why should anyone care ? Well, to me, education is akin to the silver bullet, give someone a good education and odds are they will get decent employment and not become involved in crime. And it pays to do that because it leads to increaseed ecnomic activity, less benefit payouts and so on.
Instead we have a Prime Minister who has achieved very little, who thourhg a drive to recruit teachers has lowered standards (anyone in Nottingham area with primary school kids should watch out, my mate starts teaching after graduation this year, with an impressive equivalent to a third degree, 1 A level (an E) and a smattering of GCSE C's), is intent on denying university places to even more people than before, and a host of other stupid initiatives.
Take this as an example. One day the teacher was demonstrating division, y'know 100/2 = 50 etc, except all 5 examples he gave the kids were wrong. And these were stupid basic mistakes, one of which was 0/10=10. Honestly, you wouldn't believe some of the stuff she talked about when she came home at the end of the day. And yes, the school also has a special needs assistant for whom english is a second language. Now to me that is know problem, but I do think that when you are supposed to be helping kids who need help that your english should be good and clear enough for them to understand. League tables have made it all worse, one example from this school was a special needs kid getting the highest level possible in maths and english and science in the SATS, yet the rules for helping children do not allow the science paper to be read to them. They have to read it. Slight obvious problem is that said kid cannot read more than about three words and is on the lowest grade reading books there is.
There are kids leaving for secondary school who can barely read. Why should anyone care ? Well, to me, education is akin to the silver bullet, give someone a good education and odds are they will get decent employment and not become involved in crime. And it pays to do that because it leads to increaseed ecnomic activity, less benefit payouts and so on.
Instead we have a Prime Minister who has achieved very little, who thourhg a drive to recruit teachers has lowered standards (anyone in Nottingham area with primary school kids should watch out, my mate starts teaching after graduation this year, with an impressive equivalent to a third degree, 1 A level (an E) and a smattering of GCSE C's), is intent on denying university places to even more people than before, and a host of other stupid initiatives.
people make mistakes?
I think the fact that Littlejohn is considered a journalist instead of a hack monkey says more than a typo in a newspaper ad.
9/10 it's the fault of the printers and typesetters not paying attention with copy.
Littlejohn - telling you what you knew 3 months ago and making it seem even more stupid.
9/10 it's the fault of the printers and typesetters not paying attention with copy.
Littlejohn - telling you what you knew 3 months ago and making it seem even more stupid.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,43-2003312376,00.html
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It's the Richard Littlejohn article from today's Sun 'newspaper'.
Forget who wrote it, though, and what credibility he does or doesn't have. Just have a read.
Make sure you look at the larger version of the picture, too.
Laughable or what?
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It's the Richard Littlejohn article from today's Sun 'newspaper'.
Forget who wrote it, though, and what credibility he does or doesn't have. Just have a read.
Make sure you look at the larger version of the picture, too.
Laughable or what?