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Youth of Today
Sep. 28th, 2010 09:47 amSpidermonkey came home with a note. He has to miss his GCSE Science and Maths this afternoon and cycle over to the other campus with his guitar so his long-split-up band, Late Start, can, wait for it...
....mime to an old recording of themselves so the Creative Arts and Music and Media (CRAMM) Diploma class can shoot a music video.
Then they do it again next week except they'll be missing English and French.
I wouldn't be that bothered but he's already screwed up an English assessment on Romeo and Juliet because he was on a Science trip while they were watching the movie (yes, I know) and couldn't remember what the Friar does.* So doing a speaking assessment on the Friar's character must have felt like being a LibDem defending coalition policy on the Today programme.
Is this what dumbing down looks like, or just excellent preparation for life in modern Britain?
The older monkey generation, on the other hand, benefits from a good old-fashioned regime of regular bollocksing from the head teacher. She's always haranguing us about the importance of regular attendance, not letting our children waste their time, turn up late, skive off homework, hang out on Parker's Piece at lunchtime... Apparently, every percentage point dropped from the perfect 100% attendance = -1GCSE grade.** Spider's friend M had 28% attendance last term due to his tonsils going zombie on him. He's predicted A*s across the board.
Optional bonus maths question. What grades would M be predicted if he'd had 87% attendance?)
More useful question. Can anyone recommend a good Romeo and Juliet --with the akshul words wot Shakespeare writ-- that I could buy/borrow/download for Monkey education purposes?
One last question. The Friar: what is he good for?
*To be honest, neither can I.
**Or something.
....mime to an old recording of themselves so the Creative Arts and Music and Media (CRAMM) Diploma class can shoot a music video.
Then they do it again next week except they'll be missing English and French.
I wouldn't be that bothered but he's already screwed up an English assessment on Romeo and Juliet because he was on a Science trip while they were watching the movie (yes, I know) and couldn't remember what the Friar does.* So doing a speaking assessment on the Friar's character must have felt like being a LibDem defending coalition policy on the Today programme.
Is this what dumbing down looks like, or just excellent preparation for life in modern Britain?
The older monkey generation, on the other hand, benefits from a good old-fashioned regime of regular bollocksing from the head teacher. She's always haranguing us about the importance of regular attendance, not letting our children waste their time, turn up late, skive off homework, hang out on Parker's Piece at lunchtime... Apparently, every percentage point dropped from the perfect 100% attendance = -1GCSE grade.** Spider's friend M had 28% attendance last term due to his tonsils going zombie on him. He's predicted A*s across the board.
Optional bonus maths question. What grades would M be predicted if he'd had 87% attendance?)
More useful question. Can anyone recommend a good Romeo and Juliet --with the akshul words wot Shakespeare writ-- that I could buy/borrow/download for Monkey education purposes?
One last question. The Friar: what is he good for?
*To be honest, neither can I.
**Or something.
