Comments by "Chris Cain" (@buffplums) on "1970s Britain | State of the educational system | British Education | Schools | Today | 1972" video.

This is why schools were such a mess in the 60s and 70s from my own perspective ...you have the likes of Rhodes Whose stance was “know your place” and god fearing discipline which meant you would be given 6 strokes of the cane on a regular basis ....often for farting during assembly and one of the teachers standing at the end of your line would yank you out by the ear and say .... “after this assembly ... you will come to my office lad “ teachers were just mostly either ex national servicemen or ex military officers and going to school was a scary experience.... meanwhile primary school was all like the baldy man on the left advocated was were children were chosen at random to try something different and then their performance 5 years down the road was deemed to have been below standards expected and the radical methods dropped...and then this big political bun fight ensued whilst children’s education was shit.... bright children denied many experiences because of where they came from whilst thick kids from rich families were given different treatment.... For all the shit we read about today and how children are brought up, education has improved so much, but there are many areas in which it has declined
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