tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1983805140748093260.post2465910545800754273..comments2023-08-21T16:33:00.101+01:00Comments on the orange party: GCSE Numbers Game Fails Pupilsthe orange partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08550469255117014370noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1983805140748093260.post-5590554720940485332009-11-26T03:43:28.063+00:002009-11-26T03:43:28.063+00:00The national curriculum and grade inflation disast...The national curriculum and grade inflation disasters have also damaged private schools, which have actually been far too slow to reject the government's easy exams. I am looking for a private school for my son, and I see the same smug satisfaction with standards that are not what they should be (and once were) in many private schools, as there is in the state sector. It's a question of bad and slightly less bad, not good and bad. <br /><br />As for the subsidy issue, it is the private schools that subsidise the state system. Parents, many of whom are not rich, have to pay for their children's education twice, and now they are going to be asked to pay a third time, to fund a scholarship. Emigration may by the only answer, and if I leave, as several of my friends in similar circumstances already have, the government will lose taxes equivalent to about six school places.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01835969856028900176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1983805140748093260.post-35154038856585197512009-11-26T03:36:19.268+00:002009-11-26T03:36:19.268+00:00After all that sense, why are you repeating the ly...After all that sense, why are you repeating the lying mantra that a grade C GSCE is "good"? That is one of the greatest rhetorical tricks, and we should all be laughing it to scorn.<br /><br />The GCSE farce did not start under Labour, but under the Tories. I sat the first round of GCSEs back in 1988, getting straight As, and I was shocked at how much easier they were than the O-level papers we used to prepare. The problem is not just the politicians, it is the "progressive" educational establishment (another rhetorical trick as they are now reactionaries defending a failed ideology), that runs state education whoever is in power. Nothing will improve until all the "progressives" are rooted out of positions of power in the education system.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01835969856028900176noreply@blogger.com