Monday, August 24, 2009

Nerd News + Quote of the Day: Watering Down the British A-Level Exams

Here's the sordid tale, and I simply must give you this quote of the day by British columnist Stephen Pollard:
In Soviet Russia, tractor production figures were always on the rise. In modern Britain we have our own equivalent: the annual increase in exam passes and improvement in grades, celebrated just as enthusiastically by the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major as by those of New Labour. It is all built on a lie. As the Office of National Statistics reported in 2007, pupils capable of getting only a C two decades ago can now expect an A grade.

Pathetic, as the idiotification process progresses. Still, Pollard gets the MM seal of approval for best mention of Soviet tractors all day.

1 comment:

lumpy said...

Yep, it's the same across the progressive world. They're going to turn us into intellectual beggars because intellectual beggars are easier to fool.