Give Me Weekly Collections or Give Me Death
By AlexA Bill of Rights debate brings out some predictable responses. Here are some of the less predictable.
Categorically not required. A bill of rights is a slippery slope towards a written constitution - something that lesser countries than England believe in!
[SaxonHero], Lancashire, England (not UK)
How dare you say ‘England’ without singing ‘Land of Hope and Glory’.
A Bill of Rights?
Isn’t it enough to have the Law? Can’t we just use that?!
James Hardaker, Skegness, United Kingdom
Better still, why not make your own? All you need is sticky-backed plastic, toilet roll and a small aubergine.
I would just like to see the Magna Carta back in force.
This and the Human Rights Act should be the ideal precursors to driving all future bills which protect or enforce our rights.
We already these things in action before Bliar removed them so is this a reminder that they weren’t a bad idea to have after all?
[druid2002], UK
Yet again ZaNuLiarBore is pandering to the interests of minorities! What about the rights of the Barons!?!!
Sounds like a socialist charter to me. If New Labour have any say in this, then it will be the final curtain for this nation, thats for sure.
Don’t these loony MP’s realise that because of this type of ideology like New Labour and its PC brigade have been pushing at us, is responsible for the sorry mess we are in now after 12 years of New Labour Lunacy and PC madness.
WE would ALL end up on some drug ridden council estate surrounded by refugees and loafers.
NO THANKS, continue with your hols.Sir Herbert Scroggins, Edgeley, Stockport, United Kingdom
Don’t worry. The refugees’ and loafers’ human rights would prevent them having to live near you.
Would the Bill of Rights protect white males in the face of positive discrimination? Or is this just another politically correct Bill of Rights for minorities?
White Male #1059475, Mansfield
I checked your number on the database and no, you’re not included. Evens only, I’m afraid.
Here’s the Bill Of Rights I’ vote for :
Right not to be taxed to death
Right to stop paying for everyone who can’t be bothered to go to work
Right not to be persecuted as a motorist
Right to have my bin emptied once a week
Right to not be treated as a terrorist when I get on a plane
Right to stop having the Government tell me I should eat 5 portions of fruit a dayUlysses S Drivel
As the great Thomas Jefferson said, there is no greater right than that of not having to eat your greens.
82 Responses to “Give Me Weekly Collections or Give Me Death”
Unfortunately there’s no distiction in the minds of many between ‘basic human rights’ and ‘things I want’. Therefore weekly bin collections become a right and immigrants just ‘want’ to not be shot on the tube, the demanding little toerags.
Sir Herbert Scroggins is being sarcastic, surely?
Does Ulysses S Drivel really think any of these things happen to him really?
Apart from the persecution he gets because he’s a twat, obviously.
Quite right. I wore a denim jacket onto an Easyjet flight last week and the next thing I knew three policemen were shooting me seven times in the head.
If you say so Ulysses - from now on, you are advised to eat 6 portions of fruit a day. Don’t say I’m not good to you.
i really want to go on HYS and try and get:
When I was young, “PC” meant Police Constable, nowadays I can’t seem to tell the difference!
on there, although i think spelling everything correctly might be a drawback…
I wonder if our mate the Druid has read the magna carta.
Does he know we’d have to give all the welsh hostages and lands back? Could make the holiday home owners a bit unhappy (MC45)
On the other hand constables will have to know the law…which could be a good thing (MC56)
Bugger, the more I think about the more I thing the vixens vadge has a point.
CAN IT BE TRUE?!?!?!1! TELL ME!!!!11!!!
Well if you listen those damn euro-em-pees and other such liberal forriners, you should be eating 11, not don’t worry about it.
When I was a lad, arse-mongering felch-grebbler meant something you did with your Dad on Sunday afternoons. Nowadays…
Funny, I always thought Stockport was “some drug ridden council estate surrounded by refugees and loafers”….
It’s okay, I’m from Yorkshire…
Well,clearly these people aren’t covered by *human* rights as they’re aliens from the planet Twat. Sure,they may look human but underneath they’re Twat through and through, come to Earth to fuck with our minds. Knifecrime them all now!
I was about to scream that Stockport’s in Lancashire and start a rant about bloody Yorkshiremen swanking about with their popular tea brand, thinking they own the whole of the north. Turns out it’s in Cheshire.
As you were.
Close to an ill informed rant about stuff you made up there. Close call. I would go and have a drink to rid yourself of the HYS that is building up in you if I were you.
On a completely unrelated topic, I just stumbled across this gem (and I’m too lazy to submit):
“Of course GCSE’s are getting easier. Parallels can be drawn with exactly the same thing happening at the moment in the Olympics.
Over there, the metre is a bit less than it used to be, so that is why all these times are being beaten in the 100m, 200m, etc. I also heard that a kg has now been reduced to a fraction of what it once was making the weightlifting easier.
Inevitably, if the events are made easier, more records are broken. Exams must be easier because the pass rates keep rising.
Anon, Cambridge”
Now either…
a) Some sneaky fellow is covertly adjusting rulers across the world - or, worse, crushing atoms - in order to make ‘the metre a bit less than it used to be’.
b) ‘Anon, Cambridge’ is a Speak Your Branes contributor either fishing for gullible other SYB contributors (ie. me) or stirring the ‘tards nest that is HYS (it still received one recommendation).
c) Or ‘Anon, Cambridge’ is a steaming slugs vagina.
On the plus side, my girlfriend weighs fraction of what she used to. YOU COULDN’T MAKE IT UP!!!
I lived in Stockport for 9 years and find the implication that it is a “drug ridden council estate surrounded by refugees and loafers” entirely cruel and unjustified. I only had to hide my dad’s heroin up my arse once during a police raid.
This is me doing my Magna Carta face.
“I also heard that a kg has now been reduced to a fraction of what it once was making the weightlifting easier”
I THINK what he is on about is the fact that the standard Kilo seems to be loosing weight. No-one is 100% sure why and alot of people are getting a little worried that the 1Kg mass now has a mass of about 999.99999999g, so I think he means “been reduced BY a fraction”.
He is, in fact, a steaming slugs vagina.
Sir Herbert Scroggins has clearly been playing with the Twat-O-Tron (in his brain) again.
Perhaps this site needs to put together a set of standard requirements for the ultimate HYS post.
So, posts get extra marks for crowbarring in more than one reference to the PC Brigade/New Liarbore/dirty immigrants/NOT being able to ‘MAKE IT UP’, etc.
If you turned these rules into some kind of HYS bingo, the Honourable Sir Henry would quite clearly get a Full House.
Anyone fancy a game…?
‘Right not to be taxed to death’
If we had a US-style bill of rights, surely this would be prohibited under ‘cruel and unusual punishments’.
What are HMRC doing to this poor man? Force-feeding him expenses tax relief forms until he explodes like a pate-fois-de-gras-destined goose? Ramming a red-hot family tax credit up his anus?
If only.
“Over there, the metre is a bit less than it used to be, so that is why all these times are being beaten in the 100m, 200m, etc.”
its true, all olympic track,s are measured with a He-Ne laser and made smaller by up to 0.000000001 m, you cudnt make it up!!11! no to eec propergander!!1!1
I like it here, but reading this stuff makes me wish death on the whole of humanity.
Did anyone else read this as “useless drivvel”? Here’s what I’ read.
Fucking bovine phlegm-sock.
I’d love to be there when it’s pointed out to [SaxonHero] (angle bracket tosser) that “Saxons” are actually a Germanic tribe. Then explain that meant they were from Germany, Not UK, and watch his tiny mind grapple with the concept of him himself championing a the forruners before he inevitably knife-crimed me. You cuont make it up?!!
Relax, I’m Saxon.
Making a country the Blue Peter way: with stickleback plastic and a parent (or guardian) to help you with the scissors -
*nostalgic sigh*
it reminds me strange, incomprehensible yearnings for Leslie Judd. (you don’t hear much from Leslie nowadays I wonder what she’s upto?)
“Or is this just another politically correct Bill of Rights for minorities?”
Another one?!? How many bills of rights’s do they effing need?
Have they all got one each they whip out of their slitty, immigrint coats when one of our police officers tries to arrest them?
I can just picture this completely fictitious scene that doesn’t resemble anything that’s actually happened, but makes sense from my Daily-Mail tinted glasses worldview.
A kindly policeman, 6ft tall, blonde and blue-eyed graciously approaches a stinking little foreign bastard and asks, “Hello sir, can I ask you for your papers?”
“Me got rights, look.” *pulls out piece of paper covered in foreign muck and discarded syringes*
“Me have right to claim asylum benefits for 60 false children. Me have right to suck country dry and invite all relatives to country for knifecrime purposes. Me have right to do whatever fuck me like. Shame you have no bill of rights. Namby-pamby liberalist immigration officials give us bill of rights as we enter country hidden in back of wagon. You got no rights. Except the right to watch me steal your job and impregnate your wife with my foul seed.”
Honestly, you couldn’t make it up! FACT.
I saw Leslie on the Commercial Road the other day, she asked me if I wanted any “business”.
As I was unsure what she meant I said no.
Relax, she loved it.
Re:Anon Cambridge
I think s/he’s just trying to say (in some ironic way) that just because records are being broken and people are getting better year-on-year doesn’t mean that exams are getting easier/sports are getting easier through shorter metres/lighter kgs.
I heard she’ll do full purvising for £20 and for an extra tenner she’ll even do a “go with noakes”.
Mal
I had the full Shep, I have to say I am quite broadminded but she is fucking filthy!
FACT!
Whilst SaxonHero didn’t sing Land of Hope and Glory, I’m willing to bet good money he typed that one handed whilst playing Jerusalem on his stereo, the other hand on the volume control ready to boost the level for the final bars.
Did you get her to do a really messy crap on the bed and then reach under the bed and pull out a plate of perfect crap saying “here’s one I made earlier” That’s what I’d ve done
I love the way people think that having something written down spelling out what can and can’t be done to you is grinding them under the heel of the oppressor, whilst simultaneously giving everyone they hate (wimmin, darkies and the like) a free ride.
Or wait, does it make me vomit a little instead? Some knifecriming, that’ll make me feel better.
Another Paul - I think you’re right there… damn, HYS-rage blinded my irony-radar…
Lieutenant Peter Reed is undoubtedly my hero for this Olympics.
“His endeavours in the Men’s Fours rowing, along with his three team mates, have made me proud to be both a fellow Brit and serving Royal Navy officer.
Let’s hope his success inspires a generation of rowers and potential Naval officers alike!
Topsy Turvy, England, United Kingdom ”
Sorry, I had to add this. Nelson is away and I can’t be fucked to wait for him to come back.
Topsy Turvy is Gay AND in the Navy. So he is not just a twat, but a clichéd twat. This is just to perfect. Or he may just be lieing about both of them.
John: I wonder if Topsy is somehow under the impression that the rowing is connected with being in the Navy… He must have noticed that all the boats have got engines these days, right?
Peter Reed is a truly awesome sailor, but only in the Viking Navy.
“Or he may just be lying about both of them”
Yes.
Any HYS post with the words ‘as a serving Royal Navy officer’ should probably be read as ‘I like to sit in the bath in an Admiral’s hat, singing Rule Britannia.’
Witness:
“His endeavours in the Men’s Fours rowing, along with his three team mates, have made me proud to be both a fellow Brit and [I like to sit in the bath in an Admirals hat, singing Rule Britannia].
Let’s hope his success inspires a generation of rowers and potential Naval officers alike!”
I’ve got a post drafted where Topsy bangs on about how “it’s amazing how many people enjoy freedom but aren’t willing to fight for it. Cowards. All of you.”
Precisely the kind of smug rhetoric you’d expect from someone with a paid-up subscription to Guns & Ammo who’s never been near an actual fight in his life.
why is it when i see the words Topsy and Turvy on this site I just want to go out and knifecrime the sad, deluded, smug cunt?
This is me doing my New Labour Lunacy face.
*slowly lifts head off bar*
hangon jusha minit… no no no… Moh!… shhhid be moh’. Shhhurrely sssheeeed weigh m..m..mo’? Yeah?… noh lesssshuuuuuuuuuuurppp! Scuse me.
No look righ’, sheee’d be biggus a soddin’ bus… Your girlfren’… towundre’ kilos or summat… easly… She’d beya hyoooghe fa’ cow… really…y’kno… hup! … dishgushting wobbly… Thizhlika potshutter. Gotta be talkin’… arse out here…
*loses balance and falls off stool*
Sorry, but it is eating away at me. Actually it is 5 portions of fruit and/or veg a day. There I feel better now. I can’t remember what the original theme was now, I’ll just pass the time pulling faces.
This is me doing my shoelace face - you couldn’t make it up.
Relax - I am.
An absolute gem from the epic greasy fanny that is SaxonHero
“As a teacher, I scratch my head to think of what further human-rights protection children require. If a teacher so much as touches a hair on a childs head they face the sack - and the children know it!
[SaxonHero], Lancashire, England (not UK)”
We all know that it isn’t the hair on a child’s head that SaxonHero so loves to fondle. I lthink that he wouldn’t mind getting ‘the sack’ provided it were that of a school age child.
Saxon Hero is indeed a ferret’s flange. As well as the Magna Carta, we already have a ‘Bill of Rights’ - have done since 1689. That slippery slope must be very, very slight, what with taking over 300 years to not actually lead to a written constitution.
I think that the whole idea of ancient rights in this country is all about harking back to the days of Saxon England, before them Norman feudal overlords came and ruined it all. If he’s got a problem with documents giving us rights, he should take it up with Alfred the Great…
SaxonHero is a *teacher*? Oh fucking Jesus fucking Christ. Do you think we could come up with legislation to protect our children from being taught by fucking moronic cunts like him?
I don’t know about you, but I am particularly concerned about the nanny state implications of MC33: ‘omnes kydelli de cetero deponantur penitus de Thamisia, et de Medwaye, et per totam Angliam, nisi per costeram maris.’ Why shouldn’t I, a TAXPAYER!!! be free to trap fish wherever I want?!?!?! TELL etc.
For those who being good upstanding Englishmen don’t read Foreign here’s a summary of Magna Charter from the greatest of English historians W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman:
He’s one of them teachers what works for the gubmint taking my hard earned tax munney and spending it on teaching asins about lesbeanism.
Got a speeding fine today for doing 50 along a country road,
YOU CUDDNT MURKIT OUP.!1!!
Quite right. Protest against nuLiarBore’s cronyism with the fruit and & veg mafia. Each day eat only four portions and throw the fifth into the bin. Then make dolescum and immigrants come and collect it everyday. They could also eat what we throw out and then we wouldn’t have to pay taxes to feed them anymore and with less tax and promptly-emptied bins we’d all live a lot longer.
Somebody told me recently that gordon clown has a secret deal with the EUrocRATs, and is planning to make us all drive in kilometres. I sat down with a road map and worked out that the average 100-mile journey would increase under the crackpot euro system to over 160!!! That’s a whopping SIXTY percent increase in our journey times, wear and tear on our cars, not to mention the extra fuel costs when already 100% of the price of petrol is taken as tax.
“Anon, Cambridge”
I know who you are and where you live. Someday soon I’m going to come to your house and knifecrime you in the cock.
You can touch more than a childs head hair if you are preventing them from putting themselves or their fellow pupils into danger. FACT!
What you can’t do is slip your hand in their pants, or ask them to give you a knuckle shuffle discount for bloated grades (only in America - FACT!).
People unhappy that their kids are doing well at school and achieving record high grades?
You couldn’t make that up.
In my opinion, the problem these cock scoffers all have, is that they can’t admit that their 1950’s education isn’t worth a toffee in the modern world now that we don’t need to do statistics in our heads, or know how to do logarithms, or venn diagrams. It’s a simple process of “Well, I couldn’t get an A* in my exams because they were bloody hard - ergo they must be getting dead easy now!”.
In comparison the older Vietnamese probably harp on about kids today not being able to strip down and re-assemble an AK47 and fight a guerrilla war like they used to.
wow - there’s a new HYS and it seems to have scored a direct hit…
To all the complaining whingers who think being British or living in Britain is a bad thing:
If its so bad why don’t you clear off to Iran, Burma or better still Kim Il Jongs North Korean theme park. Of course, if you complain there, you are never seen again so I think you would be less gobby.
I honestly believe that you are the type of people who would say Britain would be better off under the Taliban.
R ESSLESS
so who on here was it then?
Anyone contributing to HYS should come here first. The quality of postings might well improve then. But on second thoughts, what would we laugh about if they came over all sensible?
Let all free-born white Englishmen rise up and fight for the right to have their rubbish collected on a weekly basis by terrorists in planes!
I have to admit I only skim read the initial proposal but I think I got the gist of it.
Off topic, but: Can anyone work out exactly what Joy did/will do for her holidays, and which of the several tenses she’s used was the right one?
“Stay home as having looked at the Beijing Games for two weeks I consider I have just had the best holiday ever. I shall be pleased to be at home, go out for lunches and open champagne every evening. I will avoid the traffic jams, standing in line with baggage at airports and standing on over-crowded trains. None of that is my idea of a holiday. And I look forward to what I plan. Joy”
I’m sorry, I didn’t know where else to ask…
Want to hear something really scary? Apparently the senile old biddy teaches her brand on ‘English’ to the Swiss.
Should ‘variant spelling’ be allowed in English?:
I mananged to do a half of a sudoku puzzle once, I’m now thinking of applying for a maths teaching position at ROLLE comprehensive.
Actually, having re-read my last post I think I’ll apply for the head of the English department’s job. Should be a walkover!
” It’s a simple process of “Well, I couldn’t get an A* in my exams because they were bloody hard - ergo they must be getting dead easy now!”.
1. A* didn’t exist until very recently. They were introduced because too many candidates were getting As, which devalued the grade. The only conclusion you can draw from this is that an A became too easy to achieve.
2. It is absolute lunacy to believe that each year students get brighter and brighter thus achieving better grades. The other option therefore is that the exams are either easier OR they are being marked more leniently.
I have no idea if the exams I took in the 80s are more or less difficult than the ones now but what I do know is that there was a clear way to determine who performed well and who didn’t. Top grades were awarded only to the very top performing students.
The problem with the system now is that we are lead to believe that most students are at that level.
What’s worse is this inevitably means students are awarded top grades in subjects they have relatively little aptitude for. How is anyone meant to really understand what they are cut out to study at university (for example) if they are judged to be equally brilliant at all types of subject?
I’m not advocating a return to chanting times tables, but there has to be some kind of integrity bought back into the way in which grades are awarded.
“is off his rocker and a criminals delight!”
Could be:
1) A serviceable Facebook status update.
2) Criminal’s Delight could be a shit Angel Delight…like the Butterscotch one or something.
Oh Jesus. I think I work with SaxonHero. Shit, no I don’t, there’s another cunt just like him.
Great site - good to know that there’s others who hate these bellends as much as I do.
For fuck’s sake Oliver, you have every right to be a cretin but do you have to do it here.
1/ The existence of the A* grade does not prove higher grades are now easier to achieve, just that more people are achieving them for some reason.
By your logic the only reason the 100m record was broken at the Olympics was because they made the race shorter (ergo the race got easier, the runner didn’t get faster).
2/ Nobody is suggesting that the better grades are as a result of some extrodinary natural selection.
The third option that your stupidity allowed you to deftly ignore is that people are more prepared for exams now than they used to be (and this is by no means the only option you missed).
The obvious analogy here is that if I sat you (and by you I mean someone with some shred of mental agility not your knuckle dragging self) down in front of a test you had never seen anything like before you would do less well than if you had taken a dozen very similiar past tests.
There are masses of faults in the way exams are done currently, but higher pass rates do not by themselves prove that tests are easier.
In my opinion the reason grades are getting higher is the more accesible revision methods. I would’ve cleaned up the A*s during my GCSE’s if I had a fully 3-Dimensional holographic representation of Dave Benson Phillips’ bellend winking the knowledge into my mind lodge.
God Bless the internets, its gone made us better!
i think the main issue is that kids aren’t really taught a wide range and depth of a particular subject nowadays, they’re just taught how to pass an exam in that subject
which is wrong, but does make the school look better in the league tables, which is far more important than a decent education
Back in my day some of us were too busy drinking and shagging (well, drinking anyway)to get good A-level results.
yet somehow today’s yoof manage to knifecrime 24/7 and still get A*s
surely this is a vindication of the progress we’re having in society. if my kid is going to get a better job through knifecriming instead of drinking heavily i’m all for it.
There are masses of faults in the way exams are done currently, but higher pass rates do not by themselves prove that tests are easier.
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Possibly true, but when you see a student who has attained 11 Grade A* results and posts,
“Ye, made up wiv meself, got elvn astars!! rockin! dont no wotam gunna do now, mayb collge ? Woah me a rite geek lol”.
It makes you wonder exactly WHAT the Grade A*s were in!
Hmmm. Thanks John for your critique of my mental capacity.
Frankly your analogy between academic scoring and the 100m is completely invalid.
No exam system is perfect because there will always be people who will achieve more under one method than another.
What I am trying to get at is that lots of students all achieving top grades doesn’t benefit anyone. The current system has shifted the normal bell curve towards the majority being placed at the highest level. That just isn’t realistic. It cons the students that they are great at all subjects and it means employers and univeristies have no way of identifying the average from the genuine top performers and that simply isn’t fair.
As I said, I have no idea if the exams themselves are more or less difficult to pass than they were when I took mine. I suspect that in fact there is probably little difference.
My opinion is that the grading system is rapidly becoming irrelevant. There’s probably a dozen reasons why it couldn’t be done but if students genuinely are better prepared/better taught/weirdly more intelligent than their predecessors, wouldn’t it be more appropriate to simply do away with the A, B, C etc and give a percentage score?
The students would know precisely where they stood against their peers and the people who need to identify excellence from competance would have a more reliable yardstick on which to base their judgement.
Incidentally, why do you think the A* was introduced?
Please in future try and refrain from calling me or anyone else stupid or knuckle dragging. I was trying to start debate, not a slanging match.
On THIS website? Why?!
“give a percentage score?”
Why, what on Earth does is the percentage score of an essay, but a pseudo-objective equivalent to a grade?
I notice that Oliver seems concerned with using exams to differentiate between people. What gets up *some* peoples’ noses about the increasing pass rates for GCSEs and A Levels is the fact that improved examination teaching in state schools, coupled with the more widespread use of revision aids, has eroded, but not elimated, the advantages enjoyed by students who attend the far better resourced private schools and the benefit of organised and supervised ‘cramming’.
Then start a debate with valid points, your first post was an outright statement that modern exams are easier “The other option therefore is that the exams are either easier OR they are being marked more leniently.”
Are exams easier now? Fuck knows, I have an opinion but it isn’t worth shit because I haven’t spent nearly enough time looking into it.
Given the abuse you’d just been subjected to and the quality of your second post you’re someone I’d be happy to debate such issues with at length
IF I had an inclination to debate them online, but I use iylismwdyglt to laugh at the stupid majority not exercise my brain.
To answer the direct question, as someone who got 1 A grade back in the mid-ninties. I feel the A* was created to define the difference between people with high grades, it’s easy to cut out the chaff like me, but without A*s (or published %s) you can’t top cut so easily.
@ Vicky. I am now asking my self the very same question.
An ill advised move on my part I believe.
Don’t worry it won’t happen again.
“does is”
English Fail.
@ John.
Another thing that makes exams look easyer is that they did away with the old system where only, say, 5%, were given A’s, 10% B’s and so on. Now there is a system where if you get the right marks you get the grade.
Vicky: nail on head. FACT. End of.
Obviously knifecriming and being an imugrunt peedo in Speedos are now key parts of the nashunul kurrycu - curryque - things you have to do at school, and that’s why everyone’s getting A*s all the time.
And Oliver, we can’t have a yardstick, the EC Stalinist NuLiarBore PC Gestapo have outlawed Imperial so you can have a metrestick or ten years on jail. And not the cushy jails they put murderers in either - the really nasty jails reserved for white middle class taxpayers and decent honest BNP voters.
Proper debate, my arse….
How dare you nailcrime me in the head!
‘course you could all come over to my place to fight it out and leave the peaceable folk here to their quiet recreational activities:
http://violetta-crisis.livejournal.com/
“…quiet recreational activities..”
Fnarr, fnarr
Now why don’t Nu-Liar-bore or CON-ser-VAT-ive have this as their manifesto? It makes perfect clear sense. Ulysses has, in 500 concise characters, pinpointed all of life’s problems and defined the social contract for the 21st century. Why can’t those CLOWNS in Westminster ever take their faces out the trough for just half a second to notice that the answer are simple?
Sweepingly Generalised Pub Politics … Goood
1st class Modern Politics Degree from a respected University…. Baaaaad
@steve - Another thing that makes exams look easyer is that they did away with the old system where only, say, 5%, were given A’s, 10% B’s and so on. Now there is a system where if you get the right marks you get the grade.
Well, no, not necessarily. It all depends on what people get in the exams in each year. If standards are changing, the exam won’t tell you because 5% will get A’s, 10% will get B’s etc every single year. What’s more, if they improve, a mark that used to get you an A would only get a B later on (or vice versa if the decline). Relative rankings for exams are not that great an idea (but then I had to go through relative rankings for my pay rise this year and I am a little bitter about the derisory result).
Oh, and that was for A-levels only, not O-Levels/GCSEs…
Lets be honest with each other - exams can’t be getting easier, they were a doddle when we all did them anyway.
Unless of course you were thick.
In which case 2 years of preperation work is now making up for your relative lack of brainpower, with up to 65% of the marks coming from Coursework.
People aren’t taught any less at school, they can’t be - most schools are using 30 year old text books anyway.
Chief difference between exams today and exams of yesterday are that they have all been standardised. Its easy to revise for, there are never any surprises and the (GCSE and A-Level in particular) exams allow as many notes to be taken into the exam as you can cram into your books.
Prep work is superior, and more importantly it’s readily available. 30 years ago you could argue a shit teacher ruined your education - these days there’s no excuse for even shit teachers not to be able to find a revision guide that they can download from the web (often government sponsored, or direct from the LEA).
Also - as the curriculum is now relatively untampered with (there used to be a day and age when it changed year on year - but the National Curriculum is much improved since its inception) it’s easier for each successive year to learn from the prior.
The interweb has a lot to answer for - so does the highly profitable revision book industry which are (amusingly) written by the companies setting the exams…so if you want to know what is on the exam, read the revision book.
*wishful sigh*
If only there was a website where people with no authority could post their opinions in the vain belief that it will be read by someone who gives a flying fish. Maybe a mainstream media organisation should set one up…
I like the idea that my exam results become worth more every year, instead of less and less relevant as I forget what the subjects were never mind what was in them. One day I will be an old person and will be able to PROVE that I am better than all young people by muttering bitterly about how when I did A levels they used to make you do them upside down in a vat of guano and kids today don’t know they’re born. I’d be frankly distressed were I deprived of this opportunity and left with nothing to whine about.