JonB wrote:Strictly speaking I don't think Nazism is the correct word at all, since it designates a specific political movement. Fascism might be a better, since it's a looser term, and you could argue there's a certain nationalism about arguing for the 'correctness' of a language, but totalitarianism would probably be preferable.Escape wrote:The Pedants' Thread of Grammar Naziism You can spell Nazism thus. Looks wrong, though.
I mean, if you're going to be pedantic...
tigerswiftly wrote:Lexicondemnationalism.
Have you compared an exam paper from 25 years ago with a 2013 equivalent?Yossarian wrote:Against its own standards from previous generations? So what's with the continual upwards trend in exam results?
igorgetmeabrain wrote:Have you compared an exam paper from 25 years ago with a 2013 equivalent?Yossarian wrote:Against its own standards from previous generations? So what's with the continual upwards trend in exam results?
igorgetmeabrain wrote:Have you compared an exam paper from 25 years ago with a 2013 equivalent?Yossarian wrote:Against its own standards from previous generations? So what's with the continual upwards trend in exam results?
igorgetmeabrain wrote:Literacy and numeracy standards in this country are shameful.
Me.tigerswiftly wrote:When compared to...?
It's funny that you bring art and culture into it, because education levels in those aren't compared internationally. It's impossible to compare in many ways. I presume we're still punching above our weight in many creative fields. I have nothing to back that up though.igorgetmeabrain wrote:Every recent attempt (within the last 25 years) to measure the relative literacy standards of the UK against other industrialised nations in the world or even against its own standards from previous generations has shown, without fail, that the UK is in serious decline. It is a culturally-rooted problem as much as it is about the poor state of education and the solution is a wholesale change in cultural attitudes and educational priorities. Reversing the last half-century or more of declining support for the arts, literature, libraries, cultural heritage etc etc would be a good place to start. Literacy and numeracy skills would improve immediately even if you simply put music back at the centre of the educational curriculum, for instance.
Anyhow it's one of those banging-your-head-against-a-brick-wall arguments that I'm fed of having. Many much greater, brighter and more influential people than me have been doing the same for years now. This country is in a sorry, sorry state and has been for generations. That's why so many of its best and brightest have fled for other countries who can actually offer them the opportunity to flourish and where they actually feel appreciated.
Spock wrote:In the 10 years I've been teaching I've notice a stark decline in the basic literacy of the year 7s who come through our doors, yet the reported number of level 5 (basically; fluent competent, writers etc.) pupils has increase...perhaps this has something. To do with the fact that primary school teachers can internally assess and set their final levels without needing to externally assess and moderate.
Yossarian wrote:Or it could be down to our rising levels of inequality.Spock wrote:In the 10 years I've been teaching I've notice a stark decline in the basic literacy of the year 7s who come through our doors, yet the reported number of level 5 (basically; fluent competent, writers etc.) pupils has increase...perhaps this has something. To do with the fact that primary school teachers can internally assess and set their final levels without needing to externally assess and moderate.
B-Spock wrote:@stopharage, I feel you pain mate. Schools need to be judge but the current system is wank. We're over due for ours by a month so the whole place has been at defcon 4, waiting for the call. The whole pupil premium thing is a load of dick too. A teacher is judged by their results, their peers,league tables, the kids, the parents, their line manager and ofsted, the latter of which spend less than 12 hours in a school over the course of three years to condemn or venerate the place. They're judging orchards by a few apples. Hope your last few week goes a bit better
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