This is going to be a rather frank post - no beating around the bush with literary, emotional shit. This is an opinion and pretty spectacular one at that.
So it's been a good four years since I left secondary school and I'm now at the end of my 2nd year in university - and I come across a blog, bright pink, with the initials of its author brandished at the top left-hand corner. My jaw dropped: I'd recognise those initials even in my next life. I realised it was that of a teacher from school and of course, memories of a slightly more than less satisfactory experience in school came flooding back. Don't get me wrong - yes I paid a fucking unbelievable amount of money to go to that school, but it wasn't worth a single penny (or sen, if we're being currency term-conscious). This particular individual is definitely a contributing factor to my experience
The ideas he writes about in his blog - absolutely, spectacularly laughable. It's a joke, a motherfucking shitty joke with no respect for what education should really be about. A talent competition? Using the school as a host for this publicised event?
Don't get me wrong...I do believe talent competitions are a great way of showcasing talent which my be left buried under academia but this seems more like a publicity stunt much like the Weirs and their 161m quid. But what's at risk with this publicity? For one, the students - while it's important for schools to recognise other talents in students, it is still a place of ACADEMIC LEARNING. I think with these talent competitions, the school's focus is being sidetracked and all they're going to be left with are students who are themselves going to have a very distorted focus on life. Secondly, the school's reputation - it was bad enough that in 2007 the school was already recognised as one of the most commercialised schools - what are the public going to think about it by the time 2012 rolls around?
Ok am done with my slightly childish and exaggerated rant. I need sleep. Hence, why I'm on a sleep-deprived rampage
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