The same issue exists here in the US, as well. The Left seeks to blame everyone but themselves, for the decline in our students' educations, went it is they who are solely at fault.
Remember when the leftidiots tried to make "Ebonics" a legit class.
Desperate to keep minoiritiesw ignorant, and sounding ignorant when they speak. Uncle Sam's Democrat Plantation, doesn't want any uppity minions.
The Left’s war on correct grammar has betrayed the poor
Sir Keir Starmer’s complaint about inarticulacy among schoolchildren seems aimed at successive Conservative governments. They have not improved matters: but when Sir Keir refers to the inferiority in “oracy” many young people have in comparison with the products of private education, he really refers to how standards have been driven down in a state sector dominated by Leftist ideology.
For decades, teaching unions have encouraged inarticulacy by urging a policy of not correcting grammar, or words used wrongly. When anyone has sought to improve articulacy – to help the comparatively inarticulate not merely to speak better English but, as an important preparation for that, to be able to write it – they have often found themselves attacked by academics who believe this contrary to the natural development of our language. A decade ago, when I published two books on grammar and correct usage, I came under such attack.
It is ironic that some journals of the Left in Britain adopt the highest standards of written English, while many who read them patronisingly believe such standards unnecessary for the masses. My grammar books proved popular, not least because so many former state system pupils realised the handicaps they endured in the real world, in getting jobs and advancing their careers, because of their deficiencies in spoken and written English. It is a relief that the Leader of the Opposition now recognises their plight. I hope he understands and admits the causes. Presumably, he would have more success confronting his co-religionists in their ivory towers than successive Conservative ministers enjoyed.
~ Rather than seek to restrict excellence in education – which will be the unintended consequence of Sir Keir’s policies – he should recognise the damage the Left has done through decades of imposing a class analysis on education policy, especially in its “anything goes” attitude to the teaching of English.
If he wants to take “background” out of the equation in determining who achieves articulacy, then he should consider reintroducing the selective schools his political forebears so happily destroyed, and which ensured that bright children from any background had the chance to emulate their more privileged contemporaries. In education, as in all else, the secret is to seek to level up.
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