Who says UK schools are being dumbed down?

[pellinore]

It is now possible to take an 'A' Level in the life and works of the well-known British figure JJ Olatunjji.

Rapper and YouTuber Olatunjji (also known as KSI) is one of Britain's "National treasures", alongside personalities like David Attenborough and Stephen Hawking , although they don't merit academic study .

KSI’s rise to fame is now being taught in British schools - Dexerto

Edited June 8 by pellinore

[Electric Scooter]

5 hours ago, pellinore said:

It is now possible to take an 'A' Level in the life and works of the well-known British figure JJ Olatunjji.

Rapper and YouTuber Olatunjji (also known as KSI) is one of Britain's "National treasures", alongside personalities like David Attenborough and Stephen Hawking , although they don't merit academic study .

KSI’s rise to fame is now being taught in British schools - Dexerto

There is nothing wrong with teaching media using a star, so long as it contains all the concepts for the level of study.

There is a well known standardised test of cognitive abilities that psychologists use on students. A bit like an IQ test, but focusing on English and Maths ability. Since 1990 it has shown that school children have consistently declined in their scores. But other research has seen improving assignment and exam scores with school/college work almost consistently.

Whats going on there no one knows. It would seem people are becoming less intelligent (although that itself might me skewed by mass immigration of lower IQ peoples) but that teaching methods have improved. Either that or the exams got easier all of a sudden.

[pellinore]

1 hour ago, Electric Scooter said:

There is nothing wrong with teaching media using a star, so long as it contains all the concepts for the level of study.

There is a well known standardised test of cognitive abilities that psychologists use on students. A bit like an IQ test, but focusing on English and Maths ability. Since 1990 it has shown that school children have consistently declined in their scores. But other research has seen improving assignment and exam scores with school/college work almost consistently.

Whats going on there no one knows. It would seem people are becoming less intelligent (although that itself might me skewed by mass immigration of lower IQ peoples) but that teaching methods have improved. Either that or the exams got easier all of a sudden.

I know, and I agree with that. And the rise of YT stars and influencers, and the money they make is worthy of study ( on of the wealthiest YouTubers in only about 8 years old, he has videos made of him opening toy boxes, makes a few million dollars a year).

It is a shame your last paragraph has rather spoiled your argument, lol!

[OpenMindedSceptic]

The exams are easier. 

I looked at my niece's A level mock paper this year for maths and it's GCSE standard at best since I went to school.

It's all dumbed down to the point where you can probably get a certificate for something like this.

 

 

[Electric Scooter]

1 hour ago, pellinore said:

I know, and I agree with that. And the rise of YT stars and influencers, and the money they make is worthy of study ( on of the wealthiest YouTubers in only about 8 years old, he has videos made of him opening toy boxes, makes a few million dollars a year).

It is a shame your last paragraph has rather spoiled your argument, lol!

Its true though.

I refuse to be drawn into the fake arguments that someone is racist if they say this or that. The fact of the matter is that global average IQ mapping shows that East Asians have the highest average IQ levels, Europeans are close behind, South Asians have a low average IQ, and Africa has diabolically bad average low IQ levels.

Its not the Chinese or South Koreans that are mass emigrating here is it? For the UK is mainly South Asians and due to the numbers we have it has to have lowered our overall average IQ levels. Heck, without them maybe we would be level with East Asians.

This has to impact educational performance which suggests to me either teaching has become more affective or exams have been dumbed down. Dont bite my head off for saying any of this, its easy to search for a global map of average IQ levels. And one additional comment I would like to make is that when people from low IQ areas have spent their lives living in high IQ levels, only a minor gain in IQ levels is seen in them.

[pellinore]

7 hours ago, Electric Scooter said:

For the UK is mainly South Asians and due to the numbers we have it has to have lowered our overall average IQ levels. Heck, without them maybe we would be level with East Asians.

Does that explain this,then?:

 

Edited June 8 by pellinore

[Electric Scooter]

1 hour ago, pellinore said:

Does that explain this,then?:

 

Does what explain what?

It seems like a lowly echelon member of the peasantry at an EDL march with ideas that Islam is trying to take over. So I dont understand your question unless you are trying to suggest something about me?

Edited June 8 by Electric Scooter

[pellinore]

3 hours ago, Electric Scooter said:

Does what explain what?

It seems like a lowly echelon member of the peasantry at an EDL march with ideas that Islam is trying to take over. So I dont understand your question unless you are trying to suggest something about me?

No, not about you, it's an example of a proud English moron. I was wondering if you could explain how immigrants made him appear to be of low IQ, since you said they are responsible for it.

[ShaniWills]

On 6/8/2023 at 9:23 AM, pellinore said:

It is now possible to take an 'A' Level in the life and works of the well-known British figure JJ Olatunjji.

Rapper and YouTuber Olatunjji (also known as KSI) is one of Britain's "National treasures", alongside personalities like David Attenborough and Stephen Hawking , although they don't merit academic study .

KSI’s rise to fame is now being taught in British schools - Dexerto                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 I think that it's a cool idea to include something like this in the study program. As a student, I have some experience and would say that it will for sure help them to finish the course successful. For example, I have a Literature and Writing course, and we have lectures from local writers, we learn their biographies, and so on. It's literally the same. The only difference is that still, a lot of people don't take social media or just media seriously.
But it will be for sure beneficial for students because in my literature course, I have problems sometimes, and being able to study something practical or ask questions helps me a lot. The hardest is with writing, so for now, I always use this tool https://fixgerald.com/grammar-checker because sometimes I just don't see the mistakes. And I actually asked a guest lecturer once how to be good enough to use no grammar checkers and be able to write that great. And he gave me some tips, which I still remember when I practiced. But for now, I use a tool but still getting better and better. So I hope that the course in Media won't be changed because it's something cool.

I wouldn't say that studying something like this will worsen students' academic achievements. It will do the opposite. It's a course in media, so what is wrong with learning about KSI or any other famous figure? Each social media start is a case, which can be studied, and it will show how they achieved popularity, how they keep an audience, and so on. I'd like to study something like this, to be honest, it's interesting and cool.

[pellinore]

39 minutes ago, ShaniWills said:

I wouldn't say that studying something like this will worsen students' academic achievements. It will do the opposite. It's a course in media, so what is wrong with learning about KSI or any other famous figure? Each social media start is a case, which can be studied, and it will show how they achieved popularity, how they keep an audience, and so on. I'd like to study something like this, to be honest, it's interesting and cool.

I agree with you, and I said as much:

On 6/8/2023 at 1:58 PM, pellinore said:

I know, and I agree with that. And the rise of YT stars and influencers, and the money they make is worthy of study ( on of the wealthiest YouTubers in only about 8 years old, he has videos made of him opening toy boxes, makes a few million dollars a year).

It is a shame your last paragraph has rather spoiled your argument, lol!

The Tweet was being used in a right-wing article as an example of how 1. British Schools were being "dumbed down" and 2. being "taken over by a foreign culture". I posted it here as I found it interesting.