tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post7782922378544144199..comments2024-03-28T23:06:27.784+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: F**k OffDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-18447838884660980352008-07-01T17:40:00.000+01:002008-07-01T17:40:00.000+01:00Whatever happened to the mass education of the wor...Whatever happened to the mass education of the working classes, to break the bourgeois stronghold on the most valuable social good of all - education?<BR/><BR/>Instead, we have this kind of thing, the latest petty-bourgeois strategy to keep the working classes down, by encouraging them to wallow in a kind of culture and communication that is inherently inferior.<BR/><BR/>How many of NuLab's decision makers and camp followers are public school educated? How long has their attempt been to level downwards the whole state educational sector, while leaving the independent sector intact and indeed thriving?<BR/><BR/>If there is one thing that our social leadership, from the BBC on down, clearly shows, is that they love to see the lower classes stay low - as low as they possibly can; The Royle Family is their notion of what they should be like.<BR/><BR/>A really educated son of a single mother or of a long-term unemployed couple would upset their preconceptions, poor darlings.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-41888606277110565632008-07-01T15:39:00.000+01:002008-07-01T15:39:00.000+01:00You'll get something, that's the point of GCSE. Ev...You'll get something, that's the point of GCSE. Even a G is a pass.<BR/><BR/>But something like eleven or twelve per cent of each year group leaves without even so much as one GCSE grade G. Give that a moment to sink in.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-51454275923548926972008-07-01T09:52:00.000+01:002008-07-01T09:52:00.000+01:00You're not entitled. You won't get a pass mark wit...You're not entitled. You won't get a pass mark with 7.5%.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com