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Originally Posted by Maggy J
Standards have declined because behaviour and discipline have declined.This is as a result of children and parents now exclusively regarding their own rights as paramount.The rights of educators to do their job unimpeded and other students to get a hassle free education don't even figure.
Also business and would be employers are always complaining about this every decade..they said the same during the period of Grammar schools.They tend to see education as being only for turning out a trained workforce that they can then put straight to work without any expenditure on their part.
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It's not too much for employers to want a workforce that can read and right and do basic maths to an acceptible level .The last few years i have been shocked at the standard of basic education from some of my apprentices/labourers .I do accept that there has always and always will be an element that will never achieve or want to achieve any kind of educational standard but that element of society has got bigger over the last few years imo .