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Samizdata quote of the day How about adding some math lessons to plot statistically the chance of an Arab suicide bomber and a gay socialist vegetarian pacifist wearing a Che Guevara tee shirt and no sense of irony all ending up on the same bus in London?
Sigh…Math was never that much fun in my school days.
State education is beyond parody.
– Perry de Havilland commenting here
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Mmmm
Government mandated “teacher training”.
Government set examinations.
Governmen influence (via funding) on who gets into university.
What makes you think that such things as “Gay maths” is going to stay just in the state schools Perry?
And the above leaves out such things as the “Equality Act” and also “discrimination” being treated as a TORT (for which one can be sued).
“But it is clearly NOT a tort” – silly, words mean whatever the government wants them to mean.
And of course “the government” has little to do with who is elected. After all even Mrs Thatcher was only able to slow down, not reverse or even stop, the P.C. agenda.
Of course the whole thing (of which “Gay rights” is a TINY part) will collapse in due course (it is, to use an overused word, “unsustainable”), but it may well take civilization down with it – or at least do great damage to civilization
Perry, you missed inserting comment about the eeevil polluting fumes coming from the bus itself. Other than that, perfect.
At least the kids are not being taught how many capitalists can be hung from one lamppost! Or how to get capitalists to finance you as you buy the rope with which to hang those capitalists! Progress of a sort, surely?
This reminds me of a case in the US where a maths teacher was fired for trying doing ‘hood maths…
“Bobby has three hoes and a $500 a day cocaine habit. How many tricks must each hoe turn in a week to keep him in drugs”.
More to ze point perhaps. All of this takes away from the fundamental of maths which is generalisation and that initial (very early on one hopes) that adding apples, oranges, crack whores, or floats at gay pride is exactly the same process.
Silly Perry !
The gay socialist vegetarian pacifist wearing a Che Guevara tee shirt and no sense of irony *is* the Arab suicide bomber ! It was a trick question ! Logic, not arithmetic !
Given the fact there has been precisely one terrorist bombing in a bus in England, ever…