It is very difficult not to conclude that a dumbed-down education is official policy. It has been proven and admitted that examination standards have been consistently lowered over decades.

We now have Ofsted downgrading high achieving schools because of a 'failure' to impose diverse sex 'education' on innocent young children. Ofsted are also downgrading good schools in predominately white areas for not preaching 'racial tolerance' where there isn't a problem. And still we have 16 year old children who can't read and write fluently and effectively in their natural language. And we have school teachers who are incapable of calculating a simple percentage. But officialdom gives the impression of being more concerned with 'racial tolerance' and 'diverse sex'.

This may help to explain something of what is going on in schools. It is a prerequisite that all new would-be school teachers hold a degree before entering a teacher training course. BUT! To teach mathematics a degree in mathematics isn't compulsory.

I previously mentioned that my daughter holds a proper degree in mathematics and computer science. Before being allowed into a school to teach mathematics, my daughter had to complete a Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGSE) university course. There were about thirty PGSE students on the same course as my daughter, and all of them were planning on teaching mathematics. Only three of the PGSE students held a proper degree in mathematics; all the others held degrees in subjects ranging from Physical Education, to History, to Psychology. All PGSE students were required to hold a minimum of a GCSE in mathematics in order to teach mathematics at secondary school level. Part of the PGSE course involved teaching mathematics to secondary school students in specified schools; the PGSE students who only held a GCSE in mathematics had difficulty in teaching a mathematics class - so much so that about ten PGSE students either voluntarily left the course, or were subsequently failed.

Well worth a read, as ever...

http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/ ... tiply.html

Yes indeed. Peter Hitchens is spot-on again.

Concerning the state of education in this mad-house of a country; this article reveals what is really wrong:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -good.html

Bring back grammar schools, at least they still retain some degree of providing a good education as opposed to whats out there in the education jungle.

Grammar schools aren't the answer. A first rate education could be provided in a garden shed if the 'authorities' would permit it. But the officialdom of the LibLabCON does not want children properly educated. Officialdom only wants educationally dumbed-own, over-sexed, me-centred, 'rights'-conscious, politically correct, re-framed automatons who will obediently slot into the New World Order.