To my astonishment, James Tooley and I this evening won a debate in which we proposed the motion: "this house believes that state education has failed". The debate took place at the English Speaking Union, in London. The voting was 48 in favour and 12 against.
The contribution that struck me most came from a woman who said she had been teaching in adult education for twenty years. She said she had noticed a significant change in her students. Now, three out of four of them had trouble with reading. They also had a poor understanding of grammar and punctuation. So instead of getting into analysing the works of Shakespeare, she was having to spend time helping with these basic literacy problems.
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I'm surprised you are astonished.
The only people who think State education is a success are :
1) Labour politicians
2) Head teachers (when on the record)
3) DfES, LEAs, OFSTED all the quangos and bureaucrats
4) Pupils (who don't know any better).
However, in the blue corner are : teachers, parents and everyone else.....
Posted by: Paul at March 8, 2007 07:42 AM