We found that :-

1 - educational outcomes do not match known abilities of children

2 - teachers unfairly 'selecting', ^link01 for social, racial and gender reasons

3 - pupils not 'selected' then being alienated - turned-off by unfairness - and teachers then further discriminating against those pupils, again for social, racial and gender reasons

4 - teachers and governers corruptible - as members of self selecting ^link01a elites
[parents - a cross-section ^link02 of the working community - are even today forced to campaign to remove corrupting influences - commercial, sexual and political - from schools]

5 - politicians of all parties prefer indolence & corruption to progress or action. ^link03

Curriculum & Homework Stupidity.

We've shown - at curriculum & homework pages - that way too much worthless material is given to pupils to be slavishly copied and memorized. Most of it is out-of-date or just plain wrong.

In addition, those masses of worthless data - and subsequent exams - are a ridiculous and damaging overload of pupils who would gain from more out-of-classroom time and more time for private reading.

Estimate:-

junking 33% of the curriculum - so removing misinformation and ending 'curriculum rush';

reintroducing valuable non-classroom subjects - music, sport, PE, drama, swimming, private reading / private study etc - to the school day;

scrapping homework completely - to prevent damaging class-bias and discrimination;

would substantially improve characters and academic outcomes!

Nov. 2006 UPDATE - Finally getting the message?

UK's MULTI-EXAM SYSTEM

Why do UK politicians seem always to choose, initially anyway, the most harmful and inefficient methods and systems?

By 2006 - UK's intensive multiple exam system has had the effect of making `valuable' - so far as selfish teachers and heads are concerned - only those students pretty well guaranteed to achieve good `passes'.

At all stages the others are deemed `worthless' - by selfish teachers and heads - because the league tables are biased toward pre-selection.

So, at all stages they tend to be abandoned - by selfish teachers and heads - whilst in reality they are most important students of all. They are our future - both as work-force and voters!

[I suspect politicians make those `wrong' choices because they are guided by a civil-service ruled by elitists, who need to preserve privilege and corruption for their own advantage.
Which is why we see this faked `incompetence' in all matters:- of taxation, education, law, policing and of the electoral system itself.]