Labour policy could backfire

Labour is going to try and force parents to have their child take the MMR jab and if they don’t their children will be banned from school.

Unfortunately for Labour they can’t do that because it is illegal. The European Human Rights Act (Click here – bottom page 8) gives people the right to an education so that stops Labour from doing that. If they tried it and a child was denied education the government would be sued and the decision would be reversed.

It wouldn’t exactly be a bad thing anyway. Education is being dumbed down so much that children can now get good grades for thinking positively and developing an ‘everyone can win’ attitude.

Shakespeare dumbed down in comic strips for bored pupils

Shakespeare's plays are being rewritten as comic strips for pupils who find his poetry boring, it emerged today.

Thousands of teenagers are to study cartoon versions of famous plays such as Macbeth which reduce finely-crafted passages to snappy phrases.

The publishers hope the comics - illustrated by artists who have worked on the Spiderman series - will inspire disaffected readers with a love of the Bard's plays.

This is just stupid. A third of 14 year olds fail to reach targets in key subjects and this is only going to make it worse. We dumb down the exams and now we are dumbing down the rest of the work. When will it end?