Damian Hinds, minister of education, has seen the future. It’s terrifically bright. “Today is a significant milestone in the lives of young people,” he droned vacantly after this year’s A level results. “No matter what path they choose to take next, we are working to provide a world class education and a passport to an exciting future.”
Well, that’s alright then. If this means anything it means less than nothing. This is where language goes to die.
Well, I too have seen the future of English education. It’s bloody awful. This next year is going to be like last year, only worse. All the atrocities are in place. They include increasing homelessness, poverty, child hunger, a barbarous syllabus, a philistine pedagogy, a collapsing infrastructure, rickets, teenage gloom, Boris Johnson, private schools in the ascendant and illiteracy significantly on the rise for the first time in a century. Apart from this, it’s going to be “world class”. Dear me.
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