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[johnny9fingers]

I know I complain about the state education system in England.

Here's why:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080204/tod-britain-people-history-offbeat-6058bda_1.html

How fucking stupid. How dumb. How ignorant, cretinous, and imbecilic.

Time to start putting these folk into institutions for the deficient, and not allowing them out until they've passed the requisite exams deeming them educated to the basic standards required by a civilised society.

Either that or geld and cull them.

And as for the politicians that have allowed this state of affairs to happen....good job your fate isn't in my hands, m'dears: because it really would be a ride on the tumbrils to Madame la Guillotine.

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Re: In which I call you a fascist, but I'll keep talking to you anyway

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately for your thesis, you can't even beat people into learning. If they refuse (and girls are just as capable of this as boys - Hazel will give you myriad examples) there's no way on earth to make them interested. What do you do then?

Prepare their prison cell?
Because if we don't get our young people to learn just what are they going to do? Manual work in non-existant industry? Poorly paid agricultural labouring?
Trying to think of other alternatives to criminality as it appears many of the young women Hazel teaches are already on that particular slope, but I end up with work that requires no qualifications or learning. A new underclass ready for service or criminality. After all, the upper classes need their whores and parlour maids and footmen: things you can't really turn the educated into.

And you can beat children into learning: it's just not nice. They did so for six hundred years at Winchester, and four hundred years at St Paul's.

None of Hazel's young ladies have ever known corporal punishment. And few have known any other sanction that makes them pause: asbos are a badge of honour. Being in care means they can absent themselves whenever they feel like it. The social workers can advise and recommend, but even in the case when that girl was 'happy-slapped' into hospital, no-one went to prison or borstal. I doubt the cat would be quite as easy to ignore.
If someone had 'happy slapped' me into hospital, I would be in prison by now, having taken my revenge.

Actually, I don't like the idea of ruling through fear: which is one reason I object to the young louts of poor education roaming the streets and making folk of my parents' generation too scared to go out. But the solution doesn't appear to be merely one of throwing resources at young folk. Banning telly would probably have a greater effect.

As with all these things, the pendulum will swing. Society will grow tired of indulging these young folk: what will happen then, who knows.