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this woman is what is wrong with British schools, since the 11+ was abolished schools have had to dumb down to lowest achievers and the kids with the lowest IQs, she can say anything she wants but it is true, a gifted mathematician will never be pushed he will be educated at the same levels as a kid with a subnormal IQ level who never understands long multiplication or algebra, today's schools are all about making the kids all the same, equal, fair, even, in real life we are not equal or even, some of us are good at some things and great at other things, interested in certain subjects and turn off during other classes, for teachers to think they can make everyone the same is stupid and insulting, the 11+ system got academically gifted kids and pushed them and it took kids with manauldexterity skills and funnelled them towards trades like joinery, electrical work, everyone wether they passed or failed the 11+ were pushed towards what their skill levels were, and people back then enjoyed school more and succeded more when they left school, of course inner city schools today have new problems with london schools speaking over 200 languages, just getting kids to read and write english who come form families where no one has ever learned these skills, there are no books at home, no reading anything and they cant write a letter, many people now live in home wth three generations of people who speak no English and cant read or write in any language, and these kids get up to 4 times the money spent on them trying to make them the same as everyone else, WHY ?
she is talking s**t, I was the first year to be educated in the new comprehensive educational system the 11+ was abolished when I was 10, comprehensive schools try to make all the kids the same, if your kid is great at maths he will only be pushed as much as the weakest person in that class, the old system had teachers who had real jobs before they became teachers, my english teacher had been a senior civil servant, metalwork had been in the Glasgow shipyards, science teacher had been a commando on D-Day and then Sgt major at the training camps for national service, they all had real world experiences, today all teachers never leave the classroom, school=college=school is how it goes for them, comprhesvive education gave kids the worst of the old system and gave the best to private schools instead of sharing it out fairly regarding abilities, you can have a kid with a massively above average IQ at comperhsive school and no teacher will ever know about it, kids are blank sheets of paper and the taehers are there to fill that sheet of paper in with the prescribed information, and to be honest after a kid learns how to read or write and do basic mathematics everything they learn at school will do nothing to help them in the work place to succeed and become a winner, learning about the Roman Empire, Hadrians wall and King Arthur will do nothing for them at all, 75% of comprehensive education is total waste of time and they now it, they teaching them how to be stupid, how not to think and how to obey without questioning anything, little worker units for the new world order, at the end of a kids ten years at school everything they have learned is so they can pass a test to estimate how much of what they were told they actually absorbed into their memories, why ? ..Should we not find out what kids are good at and what they like doing combine those and encourage them until they are at the top of their game in those disciplines, taking a kid who has an IQ of 130 and loves mathematical problems and then making him learn on the same level of a kid with a sub 100 IQ and never gets to understand algebra or long multiplication is not fair and it is damaging to both kids, one is being held back and the other kid is being compared to a naturally gifted mathematician, it is a crazy way of doing things, the 11+ was the faierst system we have had, it sent gifted kids to higher education and the kids who were not acedmivcally gifted it found ther strengths and concentrated on them, my eldsest brother didn't pass his 11+ but liked electronics, the secondary modern school targetted him and ouushed him knowing about his love for elctrnics and he became an elctrician, my middle brother passed his 11+ and went to grammar school and got an education only money can give you today, they both succeded in life very well while I fell through the gaps and had no safety net, at no time during my schooling did the schools discover or ask what I liked, which is engineering and they never discover my IQ is 123, so in 10 years they never found out what I liked what I was good at or what I enjoyed,
Banks are a scam and definitely evil. They finance wars and the destruction of the environment. They profit off our individual and collective suffering. They punish you for not having enough money. They use unfair lending practices to keep the poor from advancing. They are among the most evil things in the world.
The Asian Tigers have shown how to become wealthy, they have done so without foreign aid. It took South Corea a generation to become an industrialized nation, market economy and hard work was needed.
This hasn't aged well. Still, why would Dr Dhingra worry, she's now on the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee. Failing upwards, the British Establishment's speciality.
Gathering data, by its nature, can only be done for those data from the path. Seeing questions like 1:08:23 which from 2018, I once again get recalled from the idea that history is a series of observations of the world we live in as a data generating process, while answering questions out of distribution requires another set of reasoning.
vast amounts of aid has been dished out to dirt poor countries in Africa and Asia over the years but they have not kept their side of the bargain . namely to cut their huge populations which is what is to blame for their dire situation. Yet they are demanding more and more money and even have the cheek to ask for reparations for events long since consigned to history. We simply do not have the finances to hand out any more money to them.
So what that it's 'tougher' from a 'poorer background'? Who cares? The brightest kids should go to those schools that can elicit the full potential from those students. Why do these socialist 'do-gooders' always think everyone should be equal? PEOPLE ARE NOT EQUAL. The brightest kids should be given their best chance too. It's not always about supporting the average and below average. Anna Vignoles needs to realise that that bright kids need special attention too.
Hun, the UK doesnt have only the poor and the wealthy. We also have someone in between. I’m pregnant with a Brits and if my daughter has smart brain I will push her to the best schools in the UK, too. Even when my income is high in Asia but it’s still in low range for UK’s standard. I can barely afford her boarding fees. Grammar school is a light at the end of a tunnel for me. Otherwise my daughter’d rather stay in high quality school in Asia.
Note that this overpaid educationalist doesn't tell us why comprehensive schools are so overwhelmingly good. Because the scope of evidence doesn't show that. All her evidence is about social inclusion or exclusion, only for grammar schools. But the top comprehensive schools are always distinguished by how socially exclusive that these comprehensive schools are. The top comprehensive schools are good, because their catchment areas don't have dreadful police-friendly postcodes. Or there are convoluted admissions procedures which scare enough poor people off. Some of the top comprehensive schools are as difficult to get into as trying to get into North Korea, wearing an 'I love capitalism' T-shirt
What if China is now the largest trading partner of the rest of the world nowadays. Now, the thing you explain is actually a dominant currency pricing which come from the idea that the US was the largest trading partner of the rest of the world after World War II. But, the dollar has been used nowadays as it was dominant in funding, and the total value of funding is actually 3 times larger than the total global production.
Yes, you can go to a good comprehensive school, but there are conditions aren't there? It is conditional on where you live, or rather where you don't live or choose to live? There are a limited supply of good comprehensive schools and their supply is most limited where numerous betting shops often adorn the local high street. If every other shop on your local high street is either Ladbrokes or William Hill, I bet that you won't get a good teaching of physics at your local comprehensive school. The odds would not be good. But the punch ups at break time would keep you entertained. So not all bad. Seconds out, round two.
So there is the dirty secret you don’t hear about. Monopsony pressures and the relative imbalance between employers and employees led to wage stagnation over the course of 30 years.
The 80’s “The Great Dumbing Down”, to make way for the inflow of a myriad of interlopers.Several decades later… What did we do getting rid of Grammar Schools. And combined exams G.C.E. with C.S.E. They were trying to make it easier for who?
I have just been accepted into a Grammar School with a 98% scholarship. I am from a poorer background and only started studying 2 months before the test.
I like what she said here but….summer months and “mondays” have nothing to do with leaving the planet because America is more & more becoming this inescapable dystopian nightmare.
I like grammar schools. Very efficient. Lower range of abilities means work is at the right level for most students. The claim that the "rump" of students go to comprehensive schools is bigoted nonsense. Grammar schools are exceedingly rare and many of my friends, vastly smarter than me, never go, even though we're lucky enough to live within commuting range of a grammar school.
