Thursday, August 19, 2010
A solution, or evidence of the problem?
On this morning's Today, Lord Baker told the education correspondent that 'dumbing down' (or grade inflation, as we also know it) had been solved by the introduction of the A* grade. Presumably he also think that we would bring inflation under control by the introduction of a £100 note. This point of view is clearly far more reasonable than, for example, taking the introduction of the £100 note as evidence of continued inflation.Likewise with the A* grade, then: is it the solution to grade inflation, or evidence of the continued inflation of grades?
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It's a symptom. Inflation, both in money and in grades, is a deliberate policy. When an A* "buys" what an A used to "buy," the people who implement the policy of grade inflation will simply take the A students and make them A* students. The only way to end inflation is to end inflationary policy, and this means replacing inflationists who understand that inflation simply devalues high marks, whether marks on a piece of currency, or marks on a student transcript.
Remember to update your CV's everyone. All it takes is one little line.
"A Levels: AABA (before the introduction of A* grading)"
Lord Baker provides living proof that elevation to the peerage does not require you to be able to find your arse with both hands.
Oh dear, I made an apostrophe error in that last comment. I iz fik n I ownly got D's in mi GeeSee essE'z.
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