A point that these councils seem to have missed is that they are responsible for education so if people nowadays find such words and phrases confusing whereas in the past the populace knew what they meant then it must confirm that the education of the masses is now lacking. An argument that I have been putting forward for many years and local councillors have been denying.
Nevermind ~ Mrs Snoopy#2 is taking on the THW's Maths Teacher tomorrow evening. He has switched all homework and GCSE revision to auto pilot using a web-site (not one that he has anything to do with but one they have "bought into"). At a glance one can see which exercises the child should be doing, the programme marks answers as correct or incorrect and shows the percentage "scored". Of course the child can have as many goes as she likes until she gets it right. Thus, given enough time, she can score 100% in all sections and walk away believing that she knows all she needs to pass her upcoming exams.
Does this work
~ Although I can see how it makes Sir's life easier as he simply tells them which sections to dial up and he does nothing more than check back later to see their "marks".
I too can score 100% by simply filling in numbers at random ~ eventually I will score a hit.
Give enough monkeys enough typewriters and they will eventually come up with the Complete Works of Shakespeare so they say ~ however it doesn't mean the monkeys understand it.
Mrs S#2, newly qualified and registered as a teacher (although she has been a tutor for years) intends to ask how this new system enables the teacher to evaluate the child's learning ~ because it plainly doesn't. There is a distinct difference between teaching and learning. He may believe he is teaching, using the latest technology but how is he checking that the children are actually learning and for that matter how does he know who is putting in the answers? For the latter plainly he does not because he has yet to pick up that I have done one of the exercises.