Article: Exam infects kids with faulty thinking

PEOPLE tell me that if I keep on about political correctness I'll PC myself into an even earlier grave. But how can I remain silent when I keep tripping over examples which are destroying our way of life? The latest is the signal the Ministry of Education and the Qualifications Authority have sent to science students: never mind about scientific principles, just write whatever feels comfortable.

The School Certificate science paper is a disaster. Hundreds of students have been marked wrongly. That would be bad enough if the people who set the paper and marked the candidates' replies had made mistakes, but they haven't. It is deliberate. The perceived PC wisdom underlying the setting of ...

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