Wednesday, March 03, 2004
It's funny, only the other week I was talking to someone about the British education system that we both went through and how it wasn't as bad as the American one and now, right after announcing mandatory drug testing, the Government want to introduce US style Proms. Presumerably there's a lot in the American model for the UK to emulate as education ministers seek to lower levels of numeracy and literacy still further. And maybe the American system of forcing pupils into much stricter peer groups than we've had over here. That'll need some work though, classes to explain that the answer to bullying isn't to hang yourself with a letter explaining how the bullies made your life hell but to go crazy at school with a selection of weapons from your 'grandaddies arsenal'.
