Labour Wrecks Education
Ilyan | 11.12.2006 23:49 | Education
Many children leave school unable to read. Are they followers of Pol Pot? Or are they rejecting the School's Capitalist cog indoctrination that is designed to turn them into indebted Graduate slaves?
Now that the Capitalists who fund the Labour Party have exported most of the productive work to their factories in the third world, they ensure that people cannot start manufacture for themselves by preventring children in schools from learning how to use tools. There are fancy courses on Technology full of Art and verbiage, but they exclude learning the proper responsible hands on use of tools. (Is the lack of such training tha basic reason for the incease in stabbings?) Is there an age at which the ability to learn proper use of tools is lost? Using subtle audio tones at two, thinking in three dimensions at five, grammar at twelve.
If there were Capitalists looking to start new in the UK, what will they make of all those Graduates who have gone into debt to flood the market with inferior Degrees, will they consider them mas unemployable Morons? Those future employers saw opportunity when they were in school, and instead of following the indoctrination offered by the failures who teach, went out and went into business on their own account. Were they at the auctions when the Thatcher grant funded factories were liquidated and the machinery bought very cheap for export to re-establish in cheap labour areas without regulations?
Probably not, wasn't it the liquidating Capitalists who bought the subsidised machinery up even cheaper for export to their new factories abroad?
Now that the Capitalists who fund the Labour Party have exported most of the productive work to their factories in the third world, they ensure that people cannot start manufacture for themselves by preventring children in schools from learning how to use tools. There are fancy courses on Technology full of Art and verbiage, but they exclude learning the proper responsible hands on use of tools. (Is the lack of such training tha basic reason for the incease in stabbings?) Is there an age at which the ability to learn proper use of tools is lost? Using subtle audio tones at two, thinking in three dimensions at five, grammar at twelve.
If there were Capitalists looking to start new in the UK, what will they make of all those Graduates who have gone into debt to flood the market with inferior Degrees, will they consider them mas unemployable Morons? Those future employers saw opportunity when they were in school, and instead of following the indoctrination offered by the failures who teach, went out and went into business on their own account. Were they at the auctions when the Thatcher grant funded factories were liquidated and the machinery bought very cheap for export to re-establish in cheap labour areas without regulations?
Probably not, wasn't it the liquidating Capitalists who bought the subsidised machinery up even cheaper for export to their new factories abroad?
Ilyan
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12.12.2006 14:06
OK - there is a lot wrong with the education system in the UK.
But the line - loved by right-wing newspapers and repeated here - about thousands of children leaving school unable to read is totally misleading.
You can say a lot about the way Labour has squeezed creativity out of the curriculum, but the one target-driven thing they can - and do - crow about is the improvement in primary childrens' literacy.
When newspapers like the Mail say 17% of children can't read (as they did the other week) they mean the kids are not getting "level 4" in their key stage 2 English tests. But getting below level 4 does not make you illiterate. About 10 years or so ago, level 4 was considered the average reading ability of kids leaving primary schools. Of course there are also still teenagers who really cannot read, which is awful,
International studies show that England's 10-year-olds are the third best readers in the world (only beaten by countries like Sweden which, it should be remembered, has a population not much bigger than London and is more middle-class and less socially diverse)
Labour, the Lib Dems and even the Tories have been tripping over themselves to promise more vocational subjects. But because parents and employers don't take them seriously (and whinge about kids who don't have "proper" qualifications when faced with an NVQ) teenagers end up getting stuck doing hands-off subjects.
As for the economy... I'm not going to get bogged down in the arguments over global capitalism. But if, for the sake of simplicity, we assume it exists and can't be replaced with a different model in the short term then we have to accept that other countries find it cheaper to produce many factory-made goods. So the UK economy needs to focus on higher-skilled jobs if it's going to avoid producing a generation of unemployable teenagers. (The whole 50%-should-go-to-university idea used to seem very, very stupid to me, but in that kind of context it starts making sense).
I don't think the-Government-wants-everybody-to-be-stupid-so-we-have-a-rubbish-economy is a particularly convincing capitalist-conspiracy theory.
TeachazPet
Not to End
12.12.2006 23:40
It is more a matter of Schools preventing UK people from doing things for themselves. I hear that children no longer acquire the ability to sharpen a chisel at school, nor to use one. Sixty years ago I was taught that in the School workshop.
Teachers indoctrinate pupils to be obedient participants in the Capitalist machine. They show no concern that that machine is destroying Earth's ability to support Life.
The lesson is that unless the Global Economy collapses there is no hope of avoiding Mass Extinction. And not much hope if it does.
there is no distinction to be drawn between any of the political parties in this. They all have policies that rush us to extinction.
Ilyan