Children in the UK can be in the State education system 11 years and come out still not being able to read write or spell. Imagine if you took your car to the mechanic at a garage and after having it repaired as you drive away the wheels fall off or the engine falls out -would you pay the mechanic? So why do we pay teachers for not teaching?
A friend's 12 year old daughter looking at her school work was shocked to discover that the teacher had ticked all her writing completley ignoring all her howling spelling mistakes and writing at the bottom 'good English'. The worrying thought occurs that perhaps the teacher didn't even notice the mistakes?
At the universities it is just as bad. Students only get six hours tutorials a week. This is what they run a £10,000 debt for?
Perhaps they should do what the great entrepreneur Richard Branson did and leave school at fourteen. Had he gone to university he would probably be pulling pints at his local pub now.
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