I despair of the education system.

mumps

Torry_Quine wrote: »

that's why most of it made no sense at all to me, :rotfl:

I'm in my 60s so not sure why it made sense to me. Maybe I've picked it up helping kids with their homework?

I have to say that my 11 year old grandson is being taught grammar more thoroughly than my children were in the 70s 80s and 90s and more thoroughly than I was in the 50s and 60s.

Andy_L

Haylescom wrote: »

KS2 children have to learn to convert metric to imperial and vice versa. We might be metric but we still buy milk in pints and drive in miles.

The fridge at work is stocked with 2 litre bottles. The 1pint bottle at home is dual labelled with metric. I can't think of a single circumstance where I'd need to convert them.

bylromarha

missbiggles1 wrote: »

Many of those questions simply use different vocabulary from the grammatical terms used in the past.

And the terms have been changed because...






...No, I don't know either.

Castle

peachyprice wrote: »

Oh goodness, yes, log books, I'd forgotten all about those :rotfl:

I still have mine from 1978; as Calculators were banned for "O" Level maths the exam paper came with log sheets/books. Just to make it even more fun, the exam paper had 10 "true or false" questions; a wrong answer meant 1 mark deducted!

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Nick_C wrote: »

I thought most people know their height in metres as it's in their passports.

Is it?

I've just had a look at my Passport, and can't see my height listed.

cajef

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I've just had a look at my Passport, and can't see my height listed.

For someone that despairs of the education system then throws comma's about like confetti in all the wrong places it looks like English was a second language.

Nick_C

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Is it?

I've just had a look at my Passport, and can't see my height listed.

Indeed. I was wrong. As Shaun pointed out in the next post.

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

Your height was on the old British passports (the ones with the dark blue cover) but it's not shown on the new EU United Kingdom passports.

Hermione_Granger

cajef wrote: »

For someone that despairs of the education system then throws comma's about like confetti in all the wrong places it looks like English was a second language.

Isn't that a bit like putting an apostrophe in places where one is not required? (such as in the word "comma's)

Nick_C

cajef wrote: »

For someone that despairs of the education system then throws comma's about like confetti in all the wrong places it looks like English was a second language.

Bob's punctuation looked fine to me. Care to say what is wrong with it? Presumably your aberrant apostrophe was an attempt at irony.

cajef

Hermione_Granger wrote: »

Isn't that a bit like putting an apostrophe in places where one is not required? (such as in the word "comma's)

Maybe but I don't start threads despairing of the education system then use bad punctuation.