As much as German dude bores me and as much as I REALLY don't like those sessions, I love this song!!
(BTW It's called 'Du Schreibst Geschichte' which means 'You Write History')
Saturday 17 May 2008
Wednesday 14 May 2008
OH GOD..... EXAMS!
Have I mentioned that I don't like exams? No? Here it is then....
I HATE exams. I see the point to them, kind of, and I am well aware that I sort of need to do well in these to get anywhere in life, but that doesn't mean I have to like them, although I may contemplate revising for them, if I have nothing better to do tomorrow. (Chances are that there will be something just uber-awesome on TV that I cannot afford to miss, so stuff revision).
But do you know what really bugs me? Prepare for rant.
The UK has the lowest starting age for schools than anyone else, we also have the most exams within your education, than anyone else. Yet we are still one of the lowest scoring countries when it comes to doing well in exams. The government has spent billions of pounds on the education system trying to give us this better education that our neighbours seem to have, however when a year group who have been working towards these exams for ages, whose lives have been consumed by revision and panic and worry that if they fail their entire future is totally screwed; do well, instead of saying 'Well, that shocking amount of money we have spent on the education system did some good.' they say 'Well yeah, it's only because the tests are actually dead easy and you're still all really thick.' Thanks confidence boosting people, you are just the kind of positive thinking and influential role models we need. Surely any politician will realise that the next generation of voters are the ones that they have spent the last couple of years insulting. And we're the thick ones?!
Plus, there are a group of graphs that correlate in quite a depressing way. It is a fact that, if you are about my age, then you will have spent majority of your life, not at home with your family, but at school. In recent years the number of exams has gone up, as has the amount of homework, and the pressure to do well because the school needs to look good for the league tables. Rising in almost perfect correlation with this, is the number of teenagers who have been diagnosed with depression, the number of teenagers with eating disorders, the number of teenagers who self harm, the number of teenagers with criminal records, and so on.
Do you think that perhaps, somewhere along the line, our government has completely screwed up, and doesn't seem to realise yet that something is not quite right?
Come on Mr. Brown! Do something. Part of your job is to protect the citizens of this country, yet you seem to be avoiding a generation.
Rant complete.
I HATE exams. I see the point to them, kind of, and I am well aware that I sort of need to do well in these to get anywhere in life, but that doesn't mean I have to like them, although I may contemplate revising for them, if I have nothing better to do tomorrow. (Chances are that there will be something just uber-awesome on TV that I cannot afford to miss, so stuff revision).
But do you know what really bugs me? Prepare for rant.
The UK has the lowest starting age for schools than anyone else, we also have the most exams within your education, than anyone else. Yet we are still one of the lowest scoring countries when it comes to doing well in exams. The government has spent billions of pounds on the education system trying to give us this better education that our neighbours seem to have, however when a year group who have been working towards these exams for ages, whose lives have been consumed by revision and panic and worry that if they fail their entire future is totally screwed; do well, instead of saying 'Well, that shocking amount of money we have spent on the education system did some good.' they say 'Well yeah, it's only because the tests are actually dead easy and you're still all really thick.' Thanks confidence boosting people, you are just the kind of positive thinking and influential role models we need. Surely any politician will realise that the next generation of voters are the ones that they have spent the last couple of years insulting. And we're the thick ones?!
Plus, there are a group of graphs that correlate in quite a depressing way. It is a fact that, if you are about my age, then you will have spent majority of your life, not at home with your family, but at school. In recent years the number of exams has gone up, as has the amount of homework, and the pressure to do well because the school needs to look good for the league tables. Rising in almost perfect correlation with this, is the number of teenagers who have been diagnosed with depression, the number of teenagers with eating disorders, the number of teenagers who self harm, the number of teenagers with criminal records, and so on.
Do you think that perhaps, somewhere along the line, our government has completely screwed up, and doesn't seem to realise yet that something is not quite right?
Come on Mr. Brown! Do something. Part of your job is to protect the citizens of this country, yet you seem to be avoiding a generation.
Rant complete.
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