I was chatting with my 6 year old niece recently who just got one of those new Nintendo DS units. She was playing with the arithmetic 'game' and seemed to be struggling with 2 + 2. I reasonably confident that I could do that level of math when I was her age and she is in a good private school.
It may mean nothing but it did bring home the problems that exist within the Australian education system these days. Not necessarily with my niece but in general. School level students are being asked to write assignments on what they imagine 2020 will be like after the effects of climate change. When I first heard this I assumed this was an English fantasy question but apparently it is not.
It scares me that the next generation is being raised on the basis of non scientific treatment of science, lacking basic grammar skills, not being able to read in some cases but well versed on the 'feel good' subjects like sensitivity. When this is all over the Left (socialists) will have a lot to answer for.
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