tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post115582523765894813..comments2024-03-29T10:48:06.521+00:00Comments on Nanny Knows Best: What A RankerKen Frosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13568488818950912374noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-1155984530316637752006-08-19T11:48:00.000+01:002006-08-19T11:48:00.000+01:00Congratulations Ken on being number 1, am I allowe...Congratulations Ken on being number 1, am I allowed to brag I'm no1 for Geoff Jones out of 8,470,000<BR/><BR/>Nanny Cambridge was in full swing yesterday - at Jesus Green pool someone heard a clap of distant thunder thus neccisating its closure for 1 hour.Geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16792631087971635945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-1155893555946713142006-08-18T10:32:00.000+01:002006-08-18T10:32:00.000+01:00Well done, Ken!I don't know what the controversy i...Well done, Ken!<BR/><BR/>I don't know what the controversy is. I took A level physics 25 years ago. I found an example A level physics paper on the web yesterday. All of it, that is <I>all</I> of it, was covered at O level or before when I was at school. <BR/><BR/>There was nothing I didn't understand, no new and esoteric subjects not available to we poor enighted Neanderthals in the ancient days of 1980.<BR/><BR/>Nanny's really pulled a blinder here. Like the sheep bleating "four legs good, two legs bad!", the mantra is "How dare you demean these young people's magnificent achievements! <I>Easier?!</I> Do you know how <I>hard</I> they had to work for this?"<BR/><BR/>Am I the only person who feels that the teachers teaching just a little better each and every year and the students working just a little harder each and every year is <I>just a little</I> unlikely?<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, making the exams just a little easier each year to give the illusion of improving education is highly likely!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-1155856951688728992006-08-18T00:22:00.000+01:002006-08-18T00:22:00.000+01:00Way to go. I have enjoyed your efforts for a whil...Way to go. I have enjoyed your efforts for a while now.<BR/><BR/>It seems that in the U.S. the state-run universities major in <I>issuing passports to terrorists</I>, and minor in <I>indoctrinating students with opinions that their parents (who are paying for everything) despise</I>.Some Yahoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12351196281372109140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377446.post-1155851494106316022006-08-17T22:51:00.000+01:002006-08-17T22:51:00.000+01:00Congratulations Ken!I assume this in not in any wa...Congratulations Ken!<BR/><BR/>I assume this in not in any way a nefarious result - you have not threatened any other Ken Frosts or somehow blocked or co-opted any enquireies for thie sites and so in?<BR/><BR/>;-)<BR/><BR/>As for the exams ...<BR/><BR/>One odd thing that has been going on for a few years it seems - there was a report of this in the Daily Mail yesterday iirc - is that some high achieving pupils, predicting and getting multiple good A grades at A level are not getting any offers of university places. Zero out of 6 applied for.<BR/><BR/>It happened to a couple girls at the school my daughters attended, at least one of them also having plenty of additional non-academic extra-curricular accomplishments to include on her c.v. as well as successfully managing the responsibility of being the Head Girl for the year before her exams.<BR/><BR/>Got 4 A grades as I recall, but zero offers in her leaving year. Not sure what happened after that. The last I heard she was planning to apply the following year with the results confirmed to see what would happen.<BR/><BR/>We live in curious times.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com