“There is a false debate around exam results from people who forget that we have moved from a system that was preparing an elite to run society to public expectation that a very large number of people will gain good qualifications.
John Dunford, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders attacking claims of grade inflation.
I'm sorry but what?
I'll repeat the quote
“There is a false debate around exam results from people who forget that we have moved from a system that was preparing an elite to run society to public expectation that a very large number of people will gain good qualifications.
What planet is this bloke on?
In a briliant article in the Sunday Times, this quote just lept up at me yesterday,
"There is an expectation that a very large number of people will gain good qualifications" ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I am a parent and my expectations for my daughter is that she will get the best education available - if she gets the best education then results should follow.
I want education to be elitist - that is tailored to the best abilities of each child, not dumbed down to such a lower level that they have to tinker with gradings to hide the intellectual deficit that is being served up - our children deserve better then the dross that is being served up by self-interested parties such as Dunford.
Elsewhere in the paper there was a claim that a child's reading age and ability to count develop a month earlier for every extra £100 a month in family income, according to a government-funded study to be unveiled this week.
It quotes Harriet Harman as saying
“[The report] provides an incontrovertible basis for us to move beyond inaccurate assertions made by the opposition ... David Cameron says that the differences in child outcomes between a child born in poverty and a child born in wealth are statistically insignificant when both have been raised by confident and able parents."
Oh dear, Cameroon has essentially said that a lot of how a child develops is to do with the parents and not the state - naughty David
She added: "But what he fails to say is that you can’t separate out good parenting skills from family income. The two are so strongly correlated. So this is an utterly misleading portrayal of the evidence.”
YES YOU BLOODY CAN YOU! How dare she say this. Why does Labour insist on servitude of the poorer classes? This woman from St Paul's for Girls has the nerve of claiming that because you are poor you may not have good parenting skills.
Let me tell you Harridan Harperson, I know plenty of good, intelligent people who were born and bred in poverty and thank their parents for introducing them to books, newspapers and civil society. I also know plenty of people who have been born silver-spooned, who in my opinion are some of the thickest, selfish, evil people you could come across.
Money does not equate good parenting - good parents equate with good parenting, be it married, partnerships or single parents.