After 20+ years in secondary school, don't even get me started. With you, Richmond, 100%. Which is why I left.
Hugh Senior FLCo Richmond Mathewson wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14683133 doesn't frankly surprise me; after all "Being British" is all about dumbing down things to the lowest common denominator; education, over-regulation (after all, if 5% of the population are morons the government must screw up everybody's life by regulating things to protect the morons from themselves: maybe the morons should be told "you are morons, get off your fat, supplementary-benefit-fed bottoms and start getting your brains working). I have just been looking at a series of letters written to my younger son from his erstwhile school mates at his school in Fife, Scotland; filled with basic spelling errors and grammar problems (these kids were 11 at the time); most of them being monoglot English speakers, a few spoke Fife-Scots at home. My sons, who have English and Bulgarian as mother tongues, and are both fluent in German, don't make those sort of spelling errors in any of their 3 dominant languages. If sschool kids cannot spell in their school language how on earth can one expect them to get their programming syntax right, let alone the odd nested FOR . . . NEXT loop? My younger son starts at Salem on the 10th; as the highest scholarship holder: http://www.salem-net.de/ I wonder why I'm not sending him to school in Britain? _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
