Changing The Subject
It's weird the courses kids do at school these days. The other week I'd volunteered (read - been dragged in against my will) to help with enrollment. The usual subjects were there to be entered - English, Maths, Science etc... but some of them were a bit surprising for 16/17 year olds.
One kid had 'Statistics GCSE E', now I thought 'Ah, he must have confused statistics, a lesson he did in Maths with the name of the whole subject', but no, it is an actual GCSE you can do on its own. What a telling sign of a times, when were constantly being assuaged by Politicians and spin doctors with statistics that we've got a new generation coming who have been especially educated in it.
Some of the other subjects I saw included stuff like sociology and psychology (which of course im not people against studying at like degree level but GCSE?), im not even going into the whole thing of P.E now being a something you can get an educational grade in, I know, I know, they study healthy eating and the body but still, seems a bit dodgy.
At the high school where I used to go im informed that all you have to do is English, Maths and Science, the rest you can decide yourself. Back when I was a lad you had to - do a language, do some kind of 'design and technology' and either history or geography. That probably hacks me off more than anything, you now don't have to do either history or geography... what a disgrace.
It's just so typical isn't it? Some teachers are talking with parents -
'The kids don't seem to enjoy doing languages'
'Hmmm, lets not make them do it then'
Mark my words, we'll live to see the day when kids don't have to do English or Maths. Science will go first and then one day some potty MP will pass some stupid law to get the younger demographic voting or some head master who always needs a calculator will decide to ease off and BANG! One more step back down the ladder. It makes me nauseous.
There was one kid I enrolled who had A stars in everything. I was tempted to ask why they were enrolling at a dump like our college but there was management buzzing about and they probably would have thrown a hissy fit.
One kid had 'Statistics GCSE E', now I thought 'Ah, he must have confused statistics, a lesson he did in Maths with the name of the whole subject', but no, it is an actual GCSE you can do on its own. What a telling sign of a times, when were constantly being assuaged by Politicians and spin doctors with statistics that we've got a new generation coming who have been especially educated in it.
Some of the other subjects I saw included stuff like sociology and psychology (which of course im not people against studying at like degree level but GCSE?), im not even going into the whole thing of P.E now being a something you can get an educational grade in, I know, I know, they study healthy eating and the body but still, seems a bit dodgy.
At the high school where I used to go im informed that all you have to do is English, Maths and Science, the rest you can decide yourself. Back when I was a lad you had to - do a language, do some kind of 'design and technology' and either history or geography. That probably hacks me off more than anything, you now don't have to do either history or geography... what a disgrace.
It's just so typical isn't it? Some teachers are talking with parents -
'The kids don't seem to enjoy doing languages'
'Hmmm, lets not make them do it then'
Mark my words, we'll live to see the day when kids don't have to do English or Maths. Science will go first and then one day some potty MP will pass some stupid law to get the younger demographic voting or some head master who always needs a calculator will decide to ease off and BANG! One more step back down the ladder. It makes me nauseous.
There was one kid I enrolled who had A stars in everything. I was tempted to ask why they were enrolling at a dump like our college but there was management buzzing about and they probably would have thrown a hissy fit.
