British Schools: Just as dumb!

Ah, it was Handmaids Tale and Death of a Salesman that did it for me. But to each their own.

To be honest, I don't think this issue matters that much - whether the books are lying unused in a library or returned to a charity is fairly meaningless. What matters is what's being taught in the classroom, and the classics are already taught extensively in British schools.

since we're talking about something that's "fairly meaningless" why don't we just throw it in the garbage? After all, if kids aren't presently interested no one in five or ten years will be, correct? Or even ten or twenty? Or do libraries not exist so long?

I can't count the number of times I've been to a library (different libraries) and seen excellent literature (from many different time periods) lying covered with dust and untouched.

I've seen medical books, historical novels, excellent works by modern writers, classic literature, obscure literature, outstanding (though obscure) plays that may have been only produced once or twice.

I had to search high and low to find a copy of a Eugene Ionesco play at my college (one of the oldest colleges in the nation) and not one person had ever checked it out. Not one. Many libraries have books that are just sitting unused. That's no reason to give the books away. Certainly not classics like Shakespeare (who is probably the most produced playwrite on the planet, so yes, he is a standard against which other writers should be judged)


should we just give it away to charity because kids aren't interested? Fuck that bullshit. For years the library was the only friend I had. it should to be made available to kids (even if its just one kid) who want it. that's the reason libraries are there

Trivia: The next most produced after Billy is G.B. Shaw.

its the schools responsibility to teach the children at the level they are comfortable learning at, and at the speed they are learning at, hence classroom sets, those who can be stretched to the highest learning of that silibus are given the harder books etc,

those that (like me in English) struggled with it where taught at a slower pace on easier stuff.meaning that they have no need for the higher learning books,

the kids are kept in separate classes so that they have people of similar intellectual ability's around them, meaning that those who find it hard don't hold the bright ones back, witch in turn means over all the standard of learning go's up,

the schools who turned these books down possibly aren't the top schools in the country so there for the majority of students have no need for books at the top of the silibus, meaning these gifts are pointless.

i wasn't saying that you shouldn't be allowed to comment, and it doesn't matter where you live to support a team, you perfectly entitled to your opinion, i was just pointing out that technically you can't say our kids as you don't have kids in the British school system (obviously maybe one day you will but lets not get into that)

what i was pointing out to you is that sports and the education of our young is so completely different that you point about them is pointless, Yes i whoudl say we for a team i support no matter where they are int he world as i'd feel part of the team, but thats ok right?

on that logic if all kids come under the 'our' banner, all teams shoudl come under the 'we' banner, or am i just getting confused?

'we thrashed us 3-0 on saturday'

makes no sence