"Let every eye negotiate for itself"

Aug 19, 2010 13:07

So yet another bumper crop of A-level results are announced today with 8% of our super brainy students gaining the new A* grade. Indeed it is reported that 97.6% of entrants achieved an E grade or above. Does this suggest that only 2.4% of entrants actually fail an A-level in these modern times? A staggeringly small number methinks, but on the other hand not surprising in a system where no student is allowed to feel that they've underachieved. Recently I heard a senior teacher addressing a school assembly saying that the school football team did very well on Saturday, they came second!!!

So here we are irrefutable proof that the introduction of the compulsory wearing of seatbelts in 1983 has increased the intelligence of the nation's youth:


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