Sunday, August 16, 2009
British Education
A Bury lad waiting for his GCSE results was somewhat surprised to learn he'd passed exam board AQA's stringent 'Using Public Transport (Unit 1)' test, which honours those able to "walk to the local bus stop, stand or sit at a bus stop, wait for the arrival of a public bus and sit on the bus and observe through the windows".
Bobby McHale, 15, was in fact unaware he'd even sat the test until he got a certificate through the post. He said: "At first I thought I'd got some sort of GCSE early. When I read out the details to the family we all fell about laughing."
IMO: Sadly, this appears to be true, not a canard. (The authorities provided some sort of explanatory guff). Referring the previous post about Howard, it was clear about Howard that he was not the sharpest knife in the box, and to get a lot of money the way he did, does suggest a lot of log-rolling. Obviously just about all the MPs want to replace award for merit with award for log-rolling, so will continue to try to dumb down the education system so that stupid fellows can still do well - if they went to Eton.
Bobby McHale, 15, was in fact unaware he'd even sat the test until he got a certificate through the post. He said: "At first I thought I'd got some sort of GCSE early. When I read out the details to the family we all fell about laughing."
IMO: Sadly, this appears to be true, not a canard. (The authorities provided some sort of explanatory guff). Referring the previous post about Howard, it was clear about Howard that he was not the sharpest knife in the box, and to get a lot of money the way he did, does suggest a lot of log-rolling. Obviously just about all the MPs want to replace award for merit with award for log-rolling, so will continue to try to dumb down the education system so that stupid fellows can still do well - if they went to Eton.
# posted by uv : 6:42 PM
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