I have always been fiddling with the idea of whether to write in English or Spanish. I guess I decided Spanish because I know more Spanish speeakers which were more likely to read my blabbing. But I think I am going to mix languages now, while I devise a way of creating 2 blogs in one or two versions of the same one or a magic tool which detects your language by scanning your pupils.
Anyway, leaving projects behind (as usual) I got something fantastic in the radio this morning. Twas in the BBC Radio 4’s program Today and it was a sentence that went like this:
Academies, which are supported by public money but do not follow Council’s guidelines in what to teach started as a way of improving the quality of secondary education.
That kind of shocked me. I have always known that Education standards in the UK, same as in Spain and other progressive countries, is falling dramatically. What I heard in the radio was, in short, that Blair goverment had found a way of improving those standards again. Basically, allowing some schools to go off the Goverment lead in the curriculum.
That sounds creepy and silly. First there is an acceptance that whatever the Goverment is trying to teach is not good enough. No matter if it is because the subjects are insufficient, or the methods unfit, the fact is that secondary educaition standards in the UK were falling. That is a good thing.
But, … alas! There is also a solution. Let the schools teach what the think is appropiate. It seems reasonable. Instead of a bunch of Goverment paid theoretical pedagogues and advisors deciding what is cool to study, let the teachers and school headmaster do it. That’s great! Why didn’t we thought about it earlier? Probably because you were to busy trying to find ways of numbing society so you can steal whatever you want.
Now the problem comes just after that. If we have a problem and we have a solution, which seems to be working, why do not we apply that solution (cut the Goverment guidelines) in all schools? I guess the answer to that question lays in the how much the Goverment needs to indoctrinate the society. When the Goverment spends huge amounts of money en deciding what people should learn and how they should learn it, something is wrong…
No wonder it has been the new Goverment the one allowing any school to cut loose from the Goverment if they think is better for their pupils. Hooray!
There is also the thing of Tony’s Biography published today in which he says that he never thought G. Brown would be a good Prime Minister. Apparently he appinted him as result of a promise so G. Brown would back him up in some policies when he was Chancellor. It is amazing how, just to get some policies approved, one person can put in jeopardy a whole country and be happy about it. Thanks, Tony!!!
Still, G. Brown is the only Prime Minister that has only lost elections, hehehe. He’s never won one, since he was appointed. Way to go, Gordon!
