Are kids getting thicker generally?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22970674
And are exams getting easier? Apparently my O Level maths is rated higher then the GCSE, or whatever it is nowadays.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:10, 179 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

No, they are not.
And no, it isn't.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:12, Reply)

yourn getting thicker

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:15, Reply)

my nob got thicker thinking of YM's cunt

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:16, Reply)

textbook

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:16, Reply)

Thing with that link
is that kids from poorer backgrounds have often been left behind, but is isn't completely the school systems fault.

Exams themselves possibly the curriculum probably not, it is the way they are graded rather than the content
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:15, Reply)

Mrs Cow is an IT teacher
They are pressured into getting kids the higher grades to make the school look good in the league tables, to the point where the teachers end up doing some of the work on occasion.
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:16, Reply)

Why doesnt she just add an extra * to the grade
Little Lucy got an A************************************* Ofsted will be happy with that
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:18, Reply)

My sons done about 6 exams in as many weeks
Technically he's only a 4th year senior not a fifth year why are they doing them so early
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:19, Reply)

If he passes them he can do more in year 11, if he fails he can be coached on the bits he's shit at.
Either way it improves the school's league table results.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:22, Reply)

I actually agree with you
The school is in the country’s top ten, and they are really driven by their OFSTED results, supposedly he will have 14 GCSE's by next summer
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:28, Reply)

A friend is a uni lecturer, in chemistry,
and over the exam period he's been running Saturday classes off his own bat, for no pay. The reason being, many of his students are going to fail, and it'll make him look shit. Some of his students have a 10 or so percent attendance, and submit work late every time. Surely it's those idle twats fault, not his.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:24, Reply)

Gove thinks teachers should be on performance related pay and that the current system for paying more experienced teachers more should be scrapped.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:27, Reply)

It's not the teachers fault if students can't be arsed to learn.
I ran art workshops with "disadvantaged" single mothers, who couldn't spell their own names. Wtf were they doing for 11 years schooling? Besides getting pregnant?
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:32, Reply)

It's the customers fault if they don't want to buy, don't blame the salesman.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:55, Reply)

Don't you mean "AWARD WINNING IT Teacher!"

( Peej, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:35, Reply)

Poor kids are left behind because they are retards born of retards.
You see if two people are thick as fuck they won't get a good job and they will be poor. If they have kids they will be genetically thick as fuck as well. These kids will fuck each other and have yet more retard kids. As they all have kids at 12 years old (No exceptions) you get 8 generations of retards to every 4 non retarded generation (maths). As they also have at least 7 retard children each the non retarded kids will be horribly outnumbered bringing the average results in schools down. The only solution is leave things as they are. To quote the late Ted Knight (RIP4EVAINRHARTS) "The World needs ditch diggers too"
( Peej, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:34, Reply)

tl;dr Cornish people

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:36, Reply)

So you think nature over nurture?

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:36, Reply)

Yes. If two black people have a baby it will be black
if two lesbians have a baby it will be gay, if two thick people have a baby it will be thick. That's science that is.
( Peej, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:37, Reply)

thick does often beget thick
but weirdly super-bright often also begets thick or at least average.

it's as if nature brings it back to the median. or as if the wife is fucking the window cleaner...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:39, Reply)

Poor Nakers :(

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:39, Reply)

Individual drive and ambition comes into it
Look at Rory, he probably taken one look at the families traveling dodgem ride and thought "fuck that I can do better", now he is a property mogul
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:41, Reply)

a yoga-bending property mogul
i suspect his new oiseau is actually a dude
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:44, Reply)

Far be it for me to judge
I had a picture of him going out with a "Mad Lizzy" type
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:46, Reply)

no, i think the clues are there
the big butch manly steak that his date chose to eat, the sudden gym-preening, the yoga, the turquoise and pink stripey shirts...........
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:48, Reply)

Who's Mad Lizzy?

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:49, Reply)

i was picturing a busy lizzy

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:49, Reply)

Lizzy Dripping?

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:52, Reply)

1980's TV-am
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXaFAfe1ANM
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:52, Reply)

You reckon he takes it up the Marmite motorway,and is in the closet?
That explains his attitude to the rest of the planet.
*Gossips*
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:48, Reply)

i think he's so far in the closet he's boning fauns and aslan

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:49, Reply)

Haha.
That made me lol.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:51, Reply)

lol

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:10, Reply)

What if it's a female window cleaner?
And are window cleaners inferior?
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:43, Reply)

it's the wife that's thick

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:43, Reply)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:23, Reply)

kids aren't getting thicker
but the 'sleb culture hasn't helped. they all think they can be famous for doing nothing, ignoring the fact that they are ugly and non-photogenic.

and exams are definitely getting easier. so are the topics. my cousin wants to do photography, media studes and film studies for her a-levels. what's the fucking point? who would let a student choose 3 such stupidly overlapping a-levels? the dole office is that way kid...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:37, Reply)

Nah
Or yes. I dunno.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:43, Reply)

Your kids would know the answer to this.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:47, Reply)

You think so?
I dunno....they're pretty thick.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:49, Reply)

Well perhaps not, but my point is that they're probably not as thick as you.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:51, Reply)

Well that goes without saying
They've only been at school for a year and two years respectively, and they've already recieved a better education than I did.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:53, Reply)

By every single objective measure, children are getting smarter and education is getting better.
People who say it isn't without looking at the facts prove this.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:52, Reply)

I think access to information is far better than when I was at school.
We all had the same textbook, the library had a few copies of stuff between many and of course no interwebs.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 10:55, Reply)

better nutrition and healthcare play a big role.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:01, Reply)

Chicken Nuggets and Turkey Twizzlers?
Actually, I don't think the Twizzlers exist anymore.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:03, Reply)

All I know is this
My penis is firm, proud and above all, British. And there's nothing anyone can do to take that away from me.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:16, Reply)

What's it proud of?

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:20, Reply)

Proud, as in protruding from a lower point.

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:22, Reply)

The knee?

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:23, Reply)

*boom-sa-daisy's*

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:26, Reply)

I am intrigued about a penis' Britishness.
Does it constantly complain about it's environment regardless of whether it's wet or dry?
( Kroney, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:20, Reply)

i figured he meant it looks like a british bulldog
all gnarly and drooly at one end
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:21, Reply)

Partly this
But mainly that it was born and bred in this great nation of ours.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:22, Reply)

When it sees something it doesn't like it's too polite to droop.
Just sighs and gets on with it in silent, judgmental resentment.
( Kroney, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:23, Reply)

It's also quietly suspicious of asians

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:24, Reply)

I hope it enjoys patiently queueing
and commenting on the weather.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:24, Reply)

Probably does it with a stiff upper tip...

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:24, Reply)

It's now a member of the European Union
'member' GEDDIT!!!
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:23, Reply)

Haha, yes I do get it, yes

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:24, Reply)

Haha, you 'got' his 'member', IN YOUR FACE.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:47, Reply)

Oh my god, I did!

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:49, Reply)

We don't even have to try, it's always a good time.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:58, Reply)

Speaking as a vegetarian
do you find the idea of sticking a meaty sausage inside a meaty hot-pocket unpleasant? Do you engage in fundamentally unsatisfactory proxy sex using suggestively shaped vegetables?

This is a thinly veiled analogy for my distrust of vegetarianism, in case it wasn't clear. You're meant to take deeply personal offence.
( Kroney, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:27, Reply)

I welcome your interest in becoming a vegetarian with open arms.
I'll gaz you some useful links on the health benefits.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:33, Reply)

they refer to them as
The courgette and The lettuce...

Oooo baby I am so going to munch on your hairy lettuce latter...

Slap me with your mighty courgette
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:34, Reply)

Have you been spying on me?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:35, Reply)

Yeah Soz about the weird stain in your wardrobe

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:39, Reply)

I outsourced my penis to India
Many years ago, it is now managed by a chap called "Peter" and it is very much enjoying the nice weather we are having.

To be fair it has saved me a fortune in overheads
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:28, Reply)

Yes, that is the way the world is going, isn't it
I may have to do the same myself at some point.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:31, Reply)

Just dont use "Steve"
He abuses his power
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:39, Reply)

He told me he had detected a virus on my computer

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:40, Reply)

+ or laptop

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:43, Reply)

Tsch....that Steve
I'm not even sure that's his real name, you know.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:43, Reply)

Higher education has been made "more accessible" to keep people off the employment figures
25 years ago 5-10% went to uni, now it's 50%.
Either 40% have got cleverer, or they're letting thicker people in.
It's tied in with the low wage/zero hour contract tax-credit subsidised economy we've created over the years, so the 1% at the top can cream off the wealth (16% of it, and rising allegedly).
Either house prices have to fall, or the buy-to let economy has to be undercut by new council houses, or this country is fucked, as labour mobility at the bottom end is tending towards zero.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:21, Reply)

Higher education has been made "more accessible" to keep people off the employment figures
25 years ago 5-10% went to uni, now it's 50%.
Either 40% have got cleverer, or they're letting thicker people in.
It's tied in with the low wage/zero hour contract tax-credit subsidised economy we've created over the years, so the 1% at the top can cream off the wealth (16% of it, and rising allegedly).
Either house prices have to fall, or the buy-to let economy has to be undercut by new council houses, or this country is fucked, as labour mobility at the bottom end is tending towards zero.

WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!


( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:24, Reply)

Or maybe rather than 40% of people getting cleverer in 25 years, maybe just maybe the jobs available in the UK now require a higher level of education?

(PsychoChomp, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:41, Reply)

More like the standards have dropped, so you need a degree to sweep the streets

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 12:09, Reply)

You have all this education in school and then, most of it, you never use again.
I have had English/Maths tests for various companies for an entrance exam. It's mad how long division etc is after not having done it for a decade. NO CALCULATORS!

Or I could be just a bit thick.

I did pass em all like but the brain needed a good nudge.

Just like YM
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:24, Reply)

I've never been able to wrap my head around anything other than the simplest maths problems.
Long division is entirely beyond me, as is algebra.
( Kroney, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:32, Reply)

I fucking loved algebra.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:33, Reply)

I'm considering a math A level part time this September.
I scraped a "c" in O Level, and would like to try something that I would find difficult, rather than something I'm good at, or find easy.
Differentiation had me bollocksed.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:36, Reply)

Or you could just get a job

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:37, Reply)

Too busy mate.
College, part time business, just bought a new btl and am doing it up. The idea of sitting in an office or something, is a nono.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:39, Reply)

They normally put the letters in this order
BLT...
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:44, Reply)

Actually a BLT sounds all good.
Lunch?
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:57, Reply)

It's no fun unless you bite :(

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:45, Reply)

What's a btl?

(PsychoChomp, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:52, Reply)

Buy To Let

( Kroney, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:53, Reply)

Buy-to-let

(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:54, Reply)

bacon tomato and lettuce

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:55, Reply)

Basically it's Bear Pookie's fault that there is no affordable housing available for you.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:59, Reply)

Bunch of cunts innit.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 12:00, Reply)

Oi, Vey, always the blame.

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 12:01, Reply)

A level maths is pretty easy to be honest.
But, it takes a lot of work, hours and hours of doing the same types of questions again and again. My A level maths teacher described it as like learning a language.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:38, Reply)

I do like the idea of being to write formula quite cool tbh.
It's like a foreign language to me presently.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:41, Reply)

Maths is fucking dull without context.
Working out how much flour you need for your cake is one thing, because you're gonna get cake. Working out how much server-space you need for your project is great, because you're going to get to launch a project...... but working out Blah Times Blah Devided By Blah is dull.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:51, Reply)

My aspergers side gets significant pleasure from answering a page of maths questions.
And knowing that they're all right.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:53, Reply)

I was doing this "Online quiz" thing with PHP (my main language), and I got a run of like 25 correct questions in a row until they asked what PHP Stands for, and I got it wrong.
Story of my life, that.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:57, Reply)

I remember Pie.
The round ones.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:34, Reply)

I'd much rather do advanced calculus or algebra than tell you what 16*7 is.
I don't get arithmetic, but generally pretty good at maths.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:37, Reply)

I simply don't have the head for it.
Spatial stuff I'm pretty good at, logic puzzles too. I just don't get maths.
( Kroney, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:40, Reply)

Always a word problem too
"Tommy has 26 packs of 48 apples. He leaves 13 packs in the sun and half the apples inside the packs perish. How many apples is Tommy left with"

ARGH!
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:40, Reply)

936
I can do stuff like that in my head.
( Kroney, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:41, Reply)

Yeah, I think Jason's suggestion that he might just be a bit thick is a reasonable one.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:43, Reply)

I consider that sort of problem more as a spatial problem than a maths problem
because you can break it down into "shapes" (for want of a better term, I'm not a synaesthete). Thinking of it like that rather than trying to find 48x13 suddenly makes it much easier.

10x48 = 480, 3x50-6=144 etc
( Kroney, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:46, Reply)

I agree, this sounds more like autism than synaesthesia.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:47, Reply)

I'm on the internet, obviously I'm autistic.

( Kroney, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:48, Reply)

Smells nice though

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:54, Reply)

Yeah smells really orange

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 12:10, Reply)

I was never a maths person.
Still managed a c at GCSE mind. All A* to C grades

So nerr.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 12:02, Reply)

Cider.

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Thu 20 Jun 2013, 11:42, Reply)