Why Britain became stupid - what is your reason?

In what way do you mean stupid, Baron.

We used to have an 11+ and grammar schools. Leaving aside the merits or evils of grammar schools the 11+ caused a focus on the three ‘R’ s which has not remotely been achieved in mybdaughter’s or grand daughter’s generation.

The SAT tests for which Sarah my eldest was a guinea pig were a fucking joke. The use of deliberately ethnic items like samosas in place of apples and pears as in my year meant teachers who were supposed to be teaching arithmetic saying if i have three apples and give one third of what i have to little johnny how many do i have now found themselves answering the question ‘miss, what’s a samosa’ and this was, i think, quite deliberate anti white bias.

Throughout my education we were told there were no prizes for second best. Attendance was expected and non attendance without good reason attracted the attention of social services truancy officers. School assemblies included announcements of pupil’s achievements of excellence on and off the curriculum.

Right up to my final days in compulsory education my name was mentioned more than once and so were every other achiever in sport for example. The school rugby, football netball and hickey teams naturally got a mention for winning a game but so did i when i made the time trial for the 10k. Achievement was applauded wherever and however it was made. Selection for musical achievements snd selection by a local am-dram company for their latest performance got a mention too.

In utter stark contrast under Labour achievement is a dirty word. My daughter’s success in the kayak club race was unmentioned. And many others like it. My brother was puzzled to receive a letter from his son’s school and was less than impressed to find it commended him snd his offspring for actually attending the class FFS

Things are a little better in recent years the teachers were very pleased with my grand daughter’s musical theatre stage performances along with similar extra curricular success enjoyed by other pupils but i can’t help thinking that was all down to a calculated risk. Melisa was chosen to be interviewed by the OFSTED inspectors in the inspection at her primary school and as the inspector was wrapping up the head came over to say they were sorry but Melissa had to leave early in order to get to her dress rehearsal for her performance in ‘the little mermaid’ with her thestre group. To which the inspector, clearly ruffled ( i was there, i was the chauffeur !!) said ‘oh, and you authorise these absences do you ?)

To which the head replied without the slightest hesitation ‘very much so, the group of children who do this have shown remarkable progress in english, comprehension, diction, confidence, physical education including gymnastics, and mathematics’ and the OFSTED twat stood there like a hooked fish.

The report gave a special mention to the school for its support of extracurricular dance, drama, writing and music and the labour LEA assholes have hated the school for it ever since.

Lack of mental abilities. I define that to mean intelligence which is the ability to solve problems that you wish to solve. For example, the problem of acquiring food to eat and a roof over one's head, not the ability to win University Challenge, but measures of ability in the real world of things that make a positive effect on one's life.

You are an example of the decline I speak of. You don't have the brains to debate in a civil manner.

It started to become stupid from the mid sixties due to changes in the education system brought in by the Wilson government and continued by the Tories, yes, Thatcher became education minister under Heath but instead of halting it, her excuse was that too many schools were in the process of changing to comprehensives; it wasn't helped by the American scene of the hippy flower power that spread across the Atlantic seemingly adopted by Britain rather more that the rest of Europe. Even as it happened I forecast it would be the worst ten years for a very long time.