Ofsted schools report: Remove ideology and education will recover - Telegraph

One pupil in five left primary school without a proper grasp of English and
mathematics. More than half of 16-year-olds left school without decent GCSEs
(that is, five A to Cs, including English and maths).
"To compare favourably
with the best in the world," said Christine Gilbert, Ofsted's chief inspector,
"education in England must do better".
And when compared with the rest of
the world, the situation is even gloomier. In the international rankings of
leading economies, since 2000 we have dropped from fourth to 14th place in
science, seventh to 17th in literacy, from eighth to 24th in maths.

Ofsted schools report: Remove ideology and education will recover - Telegraph

It could be worse... but this just reminds me how I felt when I came here first time... my ideas of good education was completely different and almost everybody seemed to lack general knowledge of geography for example (I didn't do geography GCSE, I don't know where Slovakia is was very common excuse) I got used to it but i still thin that students here do not need to work really hard to get good grades. They don't need to learn or read anything at home, they can afford to waste time with excuses like no equipment, they can get away with almost empty excercise books, with very few questions answered in maths or as little writing as possible in English. And becouse they get bored, they switch activities and don't last long... it is not their mistake, It is ours. We let them to choose the easier path and get reward...