Monday 17 December 2007

Outbreak of commonse in Birmingham

"The head of the UK's biggest education authority says some children should have the option to leave the classroom at 14 to learn a trade".

Tony Howell, you rock!

4 comments:

Simon Fawthrop said...

Get that man elected, now, and straight in to the cabinet to replace the boy bollocks.

Now if someone could accept that starting kids reading at a later age, like they do in most of teh rest of the world, also works better we could be starting to formulate a decet education policy.

Mark Wadsworth said...

I learned to read aged 3 or 4 and it did me no harm. But it is true that kids in other countries learn to read later on, and it doesn't seem to do them any harm either. So I'm agnostic on that point.

Anonymous said...

I have no idea when I learned to read. Am I alone?

Mark Wadsworth said...

D, that sort of illustrates the point that maybe it doesn't matter when.