Trainee teachers failing basic maths and English tests

lol... though you have missed one important thing

you must remember that younger pupils are often discriminated against compared to their older pupils and their teachers in the school. Therefore a uniform test for all pupils and teachers must be sat where allowances are made for intelligence, age and gender.

As teachers must sit the test as well, this is where this basic numeracy and literacy is tested because clearly you can't assume that teachers are more intelligent than pupils because this is clear discrimination! Therefore you must test them on what they are teaching their pupils! It all makes complete sense!

Have you considered a career with the Department of Education's examination division?

There is really no end to this, is there... we'll probably end up being communists.

I certainly hope not! I speak from first-hand experience of living under communism... Besides, communism has its own strict discriminating hierarchy - the proletariat at the top, the intelligentsia at the bottom...

Surely the very idea of an elected leader is discriminatory, though? Perhaps a lottery system should be used instead - nice and random!

All this about teacher stupidity is all well and good, but I'd bet my bottom dollar that equally important professionals such as social workers, nurses, lawyers, police officers, and even the odd doctor are as bout are equally illierate, statistically. But of course, our excessive media will not highlight this, why?......

1. Teachers should know better because everyone has had one, and they should be the 'educators'.
2. Teachers receive bad press and reputation because of many governmental changes, teacher shortages are exploited by the media, and this may be their reason why etc etc.

.....It doesn't make quite the impact for a headline when one read's "22% of social workers can't spell accommodation" - etc.

It's a disgrace. It seems that greater weight than ever before can be attached to the adage "..........those that can't, teach......."