quote:Originally posted by Rick:
Did England have its own version of China’s Cultural Revolution? If not English, what was being taught?
Hi Rick
I feel a rant coming on.......
Lip service was paid to English in schools, but without the grammar, punctuation or spelling; nowadays I would call it eBayese.
The average 16-year old has a literacy of about 6 compared, say, to 1955.
A quick browse through ebay.co.uk will support this. Amusing, but sad. It can be useful for searches, though, as if the seller cannot read the name of something they are looking at, there may be less bids.
The theory was that all these things are not important and communication will survive - as we now rely on the written word more and more, it seems they were very wrong.
Employees despair about the input of school leavers!
Occasionally, Mr Bliar [sic] and his cronies wake up from a long sleep and acknowledge that we need to overhaul the curriculum and go back to the 'three Rs' but then they all fall asleep again.