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Article: Exam infects kids with faulty thinking
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- February 11, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 Sunday Star-Times. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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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 ...