“Oh, sorry, how silly of me.

None of them have heard of it.

It's the "Have you stopped beating your wife" example.

Does the Post beieve in internal training?

And if it does:

When is it going to start!”

“Can Nottingham be said to be educated when neither it's local paper, nor its readers, are aware of the famous standard textbook example of the logical fallacy: the fallacy of many questions, more commonly known as the "loaded question", which all schoolboys and girls used to learn as their first introduction to logical reasoning and critical thinking.

Discuss.”

“isn`t evolution a wonderful thing, even darwin would never have guessed how quickly the human brain can grow, since labour came into power all our kids brains are twice as big! Its not easy exams honest.”

“Mac, quite right.

While she was off school recently, I gave my 13yo daughter last year's GCSE ICT paper to do to keep her occupied. With no lessons, no revision, and over 2 years away from when she should have been doing it, she scored a 75% pass rate on it - which I believe is an 'A' grade.”

“Well said MAC

Even tho the tests are dumbed down my guess is that if we were to give the whole gov office a social economics test they would fail. In NG8 where I am from, if they had a test for opening and starting a car without keys, or the quickest way to take down a pensioner, or even the stealth involved in shoplifting.... notts would have a bright future.

In my schooldays (70's/80's) We used to TREMBLE at the mere mention of exams, But by god if you passed.... you earned it!”

“Little wonder the results have improved. I took a GCSE science subject earlier this year and it is frightening just how dumbed down the exams have become. But nobody in education or government dare admit this, for fear of undermining their own credibility and upsetting the candidates. Quite frankly, some of the questions could have been answered by primary school pupils. The papers are an insult to the intelligence of many students, they deceive future employers and they mislead young people.”

“The City Council has been failing the tax-payer and hundreds of thousands of our children for well over a decade now and still they fail by a mile to achieve even the government's abysmally low standard. Yet still people vote for these neo-Marxist donkeys to continue in office! - Absolutely unbelievable!
I wonder when we will be getting our 42 million pounds back from Iceland BTW?”

“Isn't it about time that something was done about education within Nottingham? It can't be that all the kids are thick so where is it all going wrong?”