Of course, every government claims they are ‘transforming’ education in Britain. Yet every international comparison shows we’re falling ever further behind our competitors.
One of the best books I’ve read about British schools is “It’s Your Time You’re Wasting” by Frank Chalk (no it’s not one of my books, so readers who refuse to support this site by avoiding buying my books can buy this one without needing to worry about helping this website continue)
I’ve no idea what’s really happening in our schools, but it seems to me that no school can excel unless two basic principles are in place:
1. All parents take full responsibility for the behaviour of their children
2. No child, who wants to learn, should have their education harmed by those who are disruptive or can’t be bothered.
I think these two principles should be put up in every classroom and should be the basis of all decisions made by each school.
But how do you make this happen? Here’s my totally and absurdly politically-incorrect solution:
1. All schools should be split into two main streams – the “Want to learn” stream and the “Can’t be bovered” stream
2. At the start of each academic year, parents should choose which stream they want their children to go into
3. For the “Want to learn” stream, at the start of each year parents should sign a legally-binding contract with the school whereby parents commit to take full responsibility for their children’s behaviour in school, to ensure they support teachers against their children and to pay a fine of £10 for each of the first five disciplinary actions taken against their child, £20 for the next five, £30 for the next five and so on until a child has amassed 30 disciplinary actions at which point they’re moved to the “Can’t be bovered” stream
4. For the “Can’t be bovered” stream, our attitude should be ‘if you can’t be bovered, then British taxpayers can’t be bovered either’. We should not waste teachers’ time on the “Can’t be bovered” stream. Instead we should give them a very simple curriculum consisting of basic English, maths and computer skills taught by ex-military or ex-police with the ability to impose physical exercise as punishment for poor behaviour. However, we should also accept that some children have behavioural problems because they’re unsuited to academic work, but may be good at manual work. For these children we should provide starter courses in bricklaying, plastering, plumbing, electrics, carpentry etc. And some of them might even flourish.
Our society has ceased to be judgemental (click on picture to see more clearly) on those who have no self-control and no self-discipline. Though opinion-leaders are ragingly judgemental on anyone daring to criticise the Religion of Peace, suggest that corrupt, incompetent Africans are responsible for their own misery or propose that the fat and useless take responsibility for themselves.
This perverted censorship has allowed many people to abdicate taking any responsibility for their actions or the actions of their children. Until we return to being judgemental on the lazy, stupid and useless and force these people to take responsibility for their own lives, I can’t see how our schools can every compete with the best in the world.
You’re probably aware that Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, Tristram Hunt, son of Baron Hunt of Chesterton, has recently returned from a trip (probably paid for by us long-suffering taxpayers) to Singapore to see why Singapore’s education system is so much better than Britain’s.
The PISA comparison of different countries’ educational performance regularly shows Singapore to be one of the best performers, whereas in the last 15 years, Britain has been falling ever further down the league tables – from 7th to 17th under New Labour’s failed “education, education, education” commitment.
Singapore’s 15-year-olds are now 10 months ahead of those in the UK in English and 20 months ahead in maths.
So, what did the great educational expert Dr Hunt learn? His main ‘big idea’ was that teachers should take a public oath committing themselves to the values of their profession. This would apparently be like the Hippocratic oath taken by doctors. Such a symbolic statement when teachers qualified would help to “elevate” the status of the profession, said posh Tristram.
Now, I don’t know much about UK state schools, but here are a few things I believe Tristram ought to have noticed:
1. In Singapore, children sit at desks which are arranged in rows, and they all face in the same direction-towards a teacher who instructs. In Britain desks are often arranged in little circles and a teacher wanders around the room aimlessly while noisy, gobby kids supposedly do ‘project-based’ work
2. In Singapore, discipline is imposed. In many British inner-city schools teachers spend much of their time just trying to get the children to calm down and stop fighting or playing with their phones
3. In Singapore, arithmetical tables are memorised and calculators are banned. Moreover, spelling, grammar and syntax are rigorously taught. In Britain, teachers seem to believe it would be an infringement of children’s Yuman Rights to expect them to learn the basics
4. Singapore doesn’t have a benefits system which encourages the stupid, obese, lazy, worthless and educationally-challenged Jeremy-Kylists to procreate like rabbits while taxing strivers so much to pay for the benefits-dependent that people with ambition for their children can’t afford to have children
5. Singapore doesn’t have a system of uncontrolled open borders which enables 46,000 largely unskilled immigrants to pour into the country each month overwhelming public services like education and healthcare and resulting in many inner-city schools where the majority of children don’t speak English
6. Schools in Singapore are not being taken over by Isl*m*c fundamentalists who teach children that they should hate their country and that girls should not be educated as they are hardly human beings
7. In fact, Singapore now has the kind of schools that Britain had in the first half of the twentieth century and that were then dumbed down and killed off by successive Labour governments desperate to stamp out ambition and ensure that we were all equal – equally ill-educated
I’m sure there are many other things Cambridge-educated Tristram could have learnt if he wasn’t so blinded by left-wing, all-should-have-prizes, Islamophiliac ideology.
God help us if Ed Miliband and his band of deluded fools ever win an election.
I almost threw something at the TV this morning when I saw the smug, holier-than-thou, multi-millionaire, former Secretary-General of the utterly corrupt UN, Kofi Annan, lecturing us about Ebola and claiming the West has ‘not done enough’ to combat the spread of the disease.
So, let me remind Kofi of a few facts:
1. After WWII, under the Marshall Plan the US gave Europe around $20bn a year (in today’s money) for five years to rebuild shattered European economies. This led to one of the greatest periods of prosperity the world has ever experienced
2. Since 1965 (so that’s almost 50 years), Africa has received over $1trn in foreign aid ($20bn a year) and many African countries (especially Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea where there are the most cases of Ebola) are now poorer than they were in 1965. Where has all the money gone? Mostly stolen by the African countries’ ruling elites
3. The ruling elites in three of the four countries where there is Ebola steal more money from their countries each year than they receive in foreign aid
4. Kofi Annan is a former Ghanian diplomat. In the three years from 2009-2011 Ghana received around $5.4bn in foreign aid and over the same period Ghana’s corrupt rulers stole at least $2.75bn from their country
5. In 1965, the GDP per capita of Ghana was higher than that of South Korea. Now the GDP per capita of South Korea at $25,976 is more than ten times that of Ghana’s $1,850, yet Ghana has received more in aid than South Korea. Why did this happen? Because South Koreans used their aid money to build a successful economy, while Ghana’s rulers stole most of the foreign aid they were given
Here are the people responsible for Ebola, Kofi – Africa’s corrupt, incompetent, brutal, thieving leaders:
As former Secretary-General of the UN, Kofi, you must know these facts. Yet you choose to blame the West for ‘not doing enough’ to fight the spread of Ebola.
In my humble opinion, Kofi, you are a corrupt, self-serving, hypocritical liar. In my humble opinion, Kofi, if you want to help Africa, then deal with the almost limitless thieving of your mates.
But don’t blame us for Ebola, Kofi! Look in the mirror and you’ll see who is responsible for thousands of Ebola deaths!
(Oh, and please don’t sue me, Kofi. I’m just giving my humble opinion. And anyway, I’ve got no money, while you’ve got plenty. Come to think of it, why don’t you contribute some of your wealth to building a few clinics, Kofi? You know you can afford it!)
Apologies if you already knew this. I just found out about it yesterday.
We’re constantly harassed by the holier-than-thou, save-the-planet, we-know-better-than-you Greenies about how we need to cut down on CO2 emissions to save the planet from the threat/fraud (delete as appropriate) of Global Warming or Climate Change or whatever it’s called this week.
But if we drastically reduced our CO2 emissions by say an almost impossible 33%, would it make any difference to anything? Well, here are some facts:
– Around 800 gigatonnes of CO2 enters the Earth’s atmosphere every year (give or take a few gigatonnes).
– About 439 gigatonnes of CO2 come from vegetation and the land – nothing to do with human activity!
– About 332 gigatonnes come from the oceans – nothing to do with human activity!
– Only around 29 gigatonnes come from human activity – burning fossil fuels and farming.
So, just 3.6% of CO2 entering the Earth’s atmosphere comes from human activity. And if we really managed to reduce our emissions of CO2 by a third, that would just result in an overall reduction in global CO2 emissions of 1.2%. Ummm, not that much really.
As for little Britain. Britain accounts for about 1.4% of CO2 emissions due to human activity. That’s just an infintessimal 0.05% of total CO2 emissions. So if we really adhered to idiot Ed Miliband’s 2008 Climate Change Act and reduced Britain’s CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050, this wouldn’t make the slightest difference to the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. But it would just about shut down any form of activity in the UK.
In fact, we’re already seeing the effects of Ed Miliband’s Climate Change Act on our economy. Due to Miliband’s ‘Green Taxes’, energy intensive industries like aluminium smelting, steel works, oil refineries and chemical plants are closing and tens of thousands of people are losing their jobs. Meanwhile the Chinese and Indians are laughing at us as they get the jobs we’re losing.
Anyway, we’re still waiting to hear a plausible explanation from the Greenies about why global temperatures have remained pretty stable for the last 15 years while the amount of CO2 emitted by human activity has soared.
Yet the longer the Earth’s temperature doesn’t increase, the more desperate the Warmists get in their efforts to protect their Global Warming cult.
But if the Earth’s temperature really was linked to man-made CO2 emissions, it would be impossible for there to be no warming while CO2 emissions rocketed ever upwards.
The latest Greenie trick is to bleat on about how the Arctic ice cap is shrinking. And they’re right. It is. After all, that great climatologist Emma Thompson has been to the Arctic and seen the lack of ice. But what the Greenies don’t mention is that Antarctic ice is at record levels. Hence a ship full of Greenies got stuck in the ice when they went on an expedition to prove there was less ice.
Sigh. I’m really tired of all the Greenie lies and deceit. Man-made Global Warming – it’s all giga-bollocks!
Our Home Secretary, that widely respected Isl*m*c scholar Theresa May, is just the latest expert on Isl*m to reassure us that “Isl*m*c State has nothing to do with Isl*m”. Here’s what imam Theresa May said:
“The terrorists who murdered David Haines like to call themselves the Isl*m*c State. But I will tell you the truth: They are not Isl*m*c. And they are not a state. Their actions have absolutely no basis in anything written in the Quran. What they believe has no resemblance whatsoever to the beliefs of more than a billion M*sl*ms all over the world”.
Imam Theresa joins a long list of other Isl*m*c experts – Barack Obama, John Kerry, David Cameron, Philip Hammond, Tony Abbot – who have all made the same claim.
But the caliph of the Isl*m*c State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has a PhD in Isl*mic theology and is likely to know more about Isl*m than the delectable Theresa. He claims the Isl*m*c State’s actions of kidnapping and enslaving Infidel women are justified in several places in the Qur’an (4:3; 4:24; 23:1-6; 33:50); its practice of beheading is also justified in the Qur’an (47:4; cf. 8:12); its demand of tribute payments from non-M*sl*ms is likewise in the Qur’an (9:29).
And, of course, Isl*m*sts like Boko Haram in Nigeria, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and Yemen, like-minded groups in Libya, Al Shabaab in East Africa, the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and our own home-grown extremists (like the 7/7 bombers and the murderers of Drummer Lee Rigby) who were radicalised in mosques here in Britain also have nothing to do with Isl*m.
Meanwhile the Isl*m*sts’ score for September 2014 was 234 attacks in 27 countries killing 2,931 people and critically injuring 4,539. But, of course, as any fule kno these Isl*m*sts have nothing to do with Isl*m.
Meanwhile, the British Parliament has just voted to support Hamas against Israel.
Now you might think that such a vote could be seen as anti-semitic. But if our leaders can keep a straight face while claiming “Isl*m*sts have nothing to do with Isl*m”, perhaps they’ll soon be telling us that “Israel has nothing to do with Judaism”, “there is no evidence the Pope is catholic” and “it’s simply not credible to claim that bears defecate in woods”.
Before I do today’s post. please let me expose the utter absurdity of our politicians’ impotence in the face of our ever-growing public spending and debt. The great economic genius, George Osborne, has announced that the British Government will be selling its stake in Eurostar for about £200m “in order to reduce our national debt”.
Hold on a minute. We are borrowing £100bn a year. Thus our national debt is increasing by £100bn a year. If we’re borrowing this much, then that’s around £274m we’re borrowing every single day. Ooops. So, if the Government managed to get £200m for Eurostar, then that would pay for just 17.5 hours of our Government’s borrowing! How the f*** is selling Eurostar going to “reduce our national debt”? My worry is that some people are stupid enough to believe the imbecilic Osborne’s pronouncements.
Anyway, unlike our expenses-fiddling politicians who have just given themselves a massive pay rise, you might have been aware that there’s been a bit of an economic crisis and a recession and that many people’s standard of living has been stagnant or falling. But this crisis doesn’t seem to have hit the bosses of our biggest anti-poverty charities.
Since the start of the recession, Oxfam have been relatively frugal and only increased their top dog’s salary by 7%. But at Save the Children the highest paid executive is getting 31% more than they did in 2008. At the Red Cross it’s just 18% more. But at Christian Aid it’s 40% more. Here’s a chart showing the pay of the highest paid executive at our six main anti-poverty charities in 2008 and 2013 (click to see more clearly)
The message seems to be – “if you want to avoid poverty, then become a big cheese at an anti-poverty charity”.
Please remember these figures next time a tin-rattler or chugger tries to get you to hand over your cash.
Last week Nigel Farage suggested that foreigners with HIV/AIDS should not be allowed into Britain.
As usual, his comments were met with almost incandescent fury by the professional holier-than-thou hand-wringers and opinion leaders. And, of course, once again UKIP was attacked for being “waaaacccciiiissssttttt!!!!”
But the only thing missing from the hand-wringers’ foam-flecked criticism of Farage were any facts.
Why were there no facts? Perhaps because the facts suggest Farage is right?
So, here 10 facts about HIV/AIDS the ever so liberal Establishment doesn’t really want to mention:
1. According to the NHS, there are around 77,610 people being treated in Britain for HIV/AIDS and an estimated 18,000 with HIV/AIDS but not yet diagnosed
2. A course of antiretroviral drugs for an HIV/AIDS sufferer can cost British taxpayers up to £20,000 per year for the rest of their lives. So the NHS could be forking out up to £1.55bn a year for drugs for these people plus hundreds of millions more for medical staff to look after them
But the really interesting facts that our rulers don’t want us to know are these:
3. At least 26,170 of these HIV/AIDS patients (34%) are black Africans. Yet black Africans only comprise 0.8% of the UK’s population
4. The number of black Africans being treated for HIV/AIDS in Britain has shot up from just 9,339 in 2002 – a threefold increase since 2002
5. A massive 60% of the 7,000 new HIV/AIDS cases treated each year come from Africa. Only a few hundred of these 7,000 new cases each year are born in Britain
6. A black African living in Britain is 42 times more likely to have HIV/AIDS than the population on average
7. Each HIV/AIDS patient from overseas – whether here legally or illegally, whether a failed asylum seeker or student on a temporary visa – is entitled to free treatment on the NHS
8. Britain is becoming the HIV/AIDS centre of the world because people from the world’s worst hell-holes, who have HIV/AIDS, head for Britain as they get some of the best treatment in the world which we have to pay for
9. When the world’s HIV/AIDS sufferers move to Britain, they also get benefits and housing
10. While here, HIV/AIDS sufferers from abroad can infect as many Brits as they like and can’t be deported, whatever crimes they commit in Britain, because they can claim that their Yuman Rights would be breached as they wouldn’t get such good medical treatment in the often poverty-stricken countries from which they come.
Oh, dear. It looks like Farage is right and the holier-than-thou, liberal hand-wringers are a bunch of deceitful, hypocritical, self-serving, arrogant scum.
(By the way, it costs me money and time to do this blog every day and to try to bring you some of the inconvenient facts the mainstream media refuses to mention. So surely it’s not too much to ask to suggest that the 8 out of 10 readers who have never bought any of my books show just a little support by buying either a copy of GREED UNLIMITED or DON’T BUY IT!)
The Greenies are forever preaching that we must reduce how much carbon we use, reduce how much we travel, reduce how much meat we consume and so on in order to reduce our ‘environmental footprint’ and save the planet.
But there’s one thing the Greenies never mention – population growth. While the population of the developed countries is stabilising, and in some cases thankfully declining, the population in the world’s worst hell-holes is rocketing.
But the ever so politically-correct Greenies can’t mention this as it would be “waaaaccccciiiiissssstttttt!”
So, instead they berate us and blame us for the destruction of the environment.
Bottom line is that twice as many people are being born than are dying and almost 150 million people are being born every year.
For fun, you should click on the blue “Current World Population”. Then when you get to that page, click on “view all people on 1 page”. Then when you get there, click on “watch as we increase”.
Aaaaarrrrrgggghh!
I think I know what’s causing the destruction of our environment – it’s out-of-control population growth in the world’s poorest and most backward countries – and I heartily loathe Greenies for their politically-correct, holier-than-thou dishonesty and hypocrisy as they pretend this catastrophe for our planet and environment isn’t happening.
Here we go again. The usual hand-wringing, bleating ‘opinion-leaders’ telling us that the reason Ebola is spreading in Africa is that some countries are too poor to afford the medical facilities to treat the infected effectively. And, of course, the World Health Organisation is demanding that rich countries hand over lots more money – $1bn – to give to the African countries where Ebola is spreading.
But hold on a minute, here’s something the bleating hand-wringers possibly ‘forget’ to mention. The countries where Ebola is rife already get lots of our money. But sadly the mainstream media chooses to not tell us what actually happens to our money. I guess that’s the role of websites like snouts-in-the-trough (even though most of my readers show little inclination to support the site by buying my books).
So, here are the facts the mainstream media don’t want us to know. The table below shows the four countries where there is Ebola, how many cases of Ebola there have been per country, how much foreign aid that country gets each year for building schools and hospitals and clinics and training medical staff and how much money is estimated to be looted from that country each year by the ruling elites and their cronies:
Oooh look. In two of the worst-hit countries – Liberia and Guinea – we’re giving plenty of aid each year. But the ruling elites are stealing more from their countries that they are getting in aid. In fact, if these figures are anywhere near accurate, Sierra Leone looks like a model of honesty compared to venal hell-holes Liberia and Guinea.
Don’t believe the mainstream media journalists. These African countries don’t need ever more of our money. They need to stop stealing the money they’re already getting and to use this money for building the hospitals and clinics for which it was originally intended. The BBC won’t tell you that!
And here’s how to stop the spread of Ebola: Anyone wishing to travel from an affected country should have to give the authorities 3 weeks’ notice of their intention to travel, should spend those three weeks in an isolated compound and should be tested by Western (not corrupt and incompetent African) medical staff each week for those 3 weeks. With Ebola having an incubation period of three weeks, this would hopefully pick up all Ebola carriers trying to leave the country.
But, of course, we can’t do this because it would be “waaaaaaccccciiiiiissssssttttt!”
This 3 minute 58 second YouTube clip might be worth watching if you haven’t already seen it.
It’s an interview with a lady from the Religion of Tolerance and Peace. Apparently she got a job as a teaching assistant at a Church of England school and then turned up for work looking like Darth Vader on a bad day. She squirms and wriggles and writhes as the interviewer tries to find out why she didn’t mention in her job interview that she intended to come to work with young children while resembling something from a horror movie. And of course, she accuses us of discrimination, as such people always do.
David Craig, on October 19th, 2014
