If I was a braver man I would give up reading the news and social media! Each day you read things that as Billy Connolly would say want to make you spit your breakfast out! You think, it is impossible for the Tories to became any more crass or ignorant but everyday they prove you can sink lower than the day before! I sometimes think I am going mad and perhaps it’s me, who is out of step with events and I have it all wrong? Living in a country under Tory stewardship is like waking up each day and banging your head against a brick wall. You keep hoping they will just go away and yet each day it just gets worse and worse. I know I am not alone and I hope the reports of their unpopularity are correct. It is as though we all see and read what they are doing, with some of the most despicable people in charge, we have ever seen in the UK but collectively we are unable to stop them. Brexit has been a disaster and we live in denial, with those in power keeping their collective fingers crossed hoping against hope that it will all turn out “alright in the end”.
I have run out of words to that express my disgust with absolutely everything they say and do. We have watched as our country and more importantly its people has been dragged lower and lower into misery! There are so many holes in our social fabric it is always impossible to believe we will ever be right again!
Now to Mr Sunak latest missive to make all students learn maths up to the age of 18. If that is his key message for the new year then all I can say is WTF! I was poor at maths (still am) but once I was put into a working environment where you had to use it I learned. Most of us need to know how to add, takeaway and multiply. Perhaps if the education system was geared to actually giving our children a well rounded education that prepared them for life and not how to take exams they would all be better off! Of course I am generalising and I understand the very difficult job teachers have. A good many years ago I applied for a job as a truant officer. I went to the local comprehensive for the interview and it was one of the most rigorous and tough I have ever done. Having not been in a school for many years I found it a most intimidating place with all these teens wandering around. I did not get the job and having seen the interaction between staff and pupils was actually quite relieved!
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