edukashun:

Posted on December 15, 2011 by KG

‘Teachers giving students questions before they sit GCSEs and A-Levels
Whistleblowers say secondary school teachers are under so much pressure to deliver high exam grades that they have been forced to adopt questionable tactics.              source
Nothing like squeezing a weasel justification into the headline, is there? The same thing is going on in the U.S..  I wonder how much of this is happening in NZ and Australia?
Introduce independent invigilators and auditors.

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14 Responses to edukashun:

  1. Angus says:
    December 15, 2011 at 13:51

    It’s not just the teachers. The rot is also within the education politburo itself and the know-nothing left-wing eggheads who develop the curriculum.

    • KG says:
      December 15, 2011 at 13:55

      Yep. It needs a massive clean out and since that’s just not going to happen parents need to be given tax breaks so they can afford to send their kids to real (private) schools.
      But that would never do–there’s a vast army of marxists and bludgers to support first.

  3. KG says:
    December 15, 2011 at 16:54

    “Harvard has been bought and sold to the highest Sharia bidder. In December 2005, Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal donated $20 million each to Harvard University and Georgetown University to fund Islamic studies.

    It is dire. I cannot believe this is America.”

    I can. We are losing this war and will continue to lose it absent some massive, game-changing event.
    And the only such even I can imagine is the islamonutters detonating a dirty bomb somewhere in the West.
    If they stay on their present course they will win.

    • Andrei says:
      December 15, 2011 at 17:32

      It’s already lost KG – Western civilization is in its death throes.

      For now the party goes on and the merry makers make merry but we live in a decadent and degraded society, one where people are more interested in their “rights” than their duties and one ruled by an effete elite comprising of very few people with any substance.

      • KG says:
        December 15, 2011 at 17:40

        Can’t argue with that. Sometimes I find myself hoping that the islamists do miscalculate and do something horrific (not that they don’t already, almost every day, but I mean on a larger scale) in order to wake people up.
        Not that the current crop of spineless empty suits would retaliate, but the lack of action just might result in a wave of anger and revulsion that would sweep them away.
        What follows wouldn’t be pretty, but then neither is servitude.

        • Andrei says:
          December 15, 2011 at 17:53

          Compare the reaction of Americans to 9/11 to that of Pearl Harbour.

          Some Americans reacted to 9/11 the same way but a heck of a lot didn’t.

          And a Mosque er sorry Islamic Cultural Center is to rise next to where there has been a big hole in the ground for ten years now

          FFS the first thing a dynamic culture would have done is to rebuild there including the Church that was destroyed – and for which every obstacle under the sun has been placed in the way of its rebuilding

          • KG says:
            December 15, 2011 at 18:00

            Perhaps we don’t have any such thing as a “culture” any more, Andrei. Rather a collection of individuals, many of whom are too ignorant, too degraded to be part of anything larger than themselves.
            When the education system is churning out ideologically indoctrinated semi-literates ignorant of their own histories, the future is lost.
            Generations with nothing to be proud of have nothing to fight for.

          • Andrei says:
            December 15, 2011 at 18:23

            Have you heard this old Marine tell it like it really was – this would drive some folks into conniptions

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-idSRLjg9A

            • KG says:
              December 15, 2011 at 18:35

              Interesting clip, Andrei.
              That’s just the way war is. And will be again and again.
              Robert Ardrey’s description of Man as “the killer ape” is perfectly accurate and no amount of wishful thinking or social engineering is going to change it. Change will come from the long haul of evolution, if then.

  4. KG says:
    December 15, 2011 at 17:50

    It could all come unraveled very quickly:
    ‘.The military planning work has come to light after The Daily Telegraph disclosed last month that British embassies in the eurozone have been told to prepare emergency plans for the demise of the euro and the possible civil disorder that could follow…’
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/8957513/Eurozone-crisis-poses-military-risk-warns-defence-chief-General-Sir-David-Richards.html

    And already there are reports that a police dept in the U.S. has used a Predator drone in an ordinary (allegedly) criminal case…as well as SWAT teams being expanded and equipped more like Special Forces troops than cops, even in country towns.
    The jackboot is about to come down on our throats and I do not believe the people will fight.

  5. Flashman says:
    December 16, 2011 at 03:25

    It’s quite common in NZ tertiary ed to:

    1. Recycle past assessments and examination papers.
    2. Provide “learners” with “model answers” to [1] above.
    3. Give out strong “study this” advice before examinations.
    4. Allow failing students to resit the same assessments multiple times.
    5. Give failing students “conceded passes” on grounds of ostensible “hardship” and “only needs this one credit to graduate”.
    6. Soften assessments to improve pass rates.
    7. Push failing students with [e.g. 45%] “over the line”.
    8. Award marks for spurious activities [e.g. putting front cover illustrations on an assessment, awarding presentation marks for a research report with attributes like “Good body language”, “Confident response to audience questions”.
    9. Assessing strictly to “learning outcomes” so that the process becomes a tick-box, pub quiz experience. [This incidentally is the criterion used by NZQA when it “moderates” a course.]
    10. Teaching closely to a prescribed textbook: “open your textbook at page 127”.
    11. Padding out teaching sessions with banal activities: “get into groups of 3 and discuss the meaning of sovereignty as it relates to the signing of the tweety”.
    12. Filling out the narrative with the course instructor’s personality-based “war stories” [e.g. “my experiences of the 81 tour” or “the first time I visited Vietnam as a uni student”].

    Your tax dollars at work….

  6. WAKE UP says:
    December 16, 2011 at 08:05

    God my generation was lucky – I went to a public school, and the education I got there was EXCELLENT. But now I’ve heard that my old school has dropped way down the deciles, probably due to all kinds of wise-arses (from politicians to unionists to hare-brained theorists) thinking they knew how to do it better. Tragic.