In The News

I have been way too preoccupied recently to know what's going on in the world. So today I had a good long gawp at a newspaper stand. Jaw open and all. Nothing much really, a bunch of moron interest stories and some drivel about TV soaps and sports. Consumer media. The Google IPO seems to be going ahead, which I'm as excited about as anyone: excellent news for Tech, but I already knew about that.

Then a headline struck me. Apparently the A Level results are out and 96% were passes. I find this disturbing. If employers know that any NAAFI cretin can pass A Levels then mine aren't any good to me, they don't set me apart. I put two years into getting them and the learning was good, but I'd hope they have more value. Bummer. Maybe I should take a half dozen more, learn some eclectic subjects maybe. Hmmm....

I've seen this years crop of A Level candidates. There are some gems amongst them, but I wouldn't describe 96% of them as academic. In fact, some of them couldn't tell their own ass from a textbook. 'Me is well pleased wiv me A's, they is all passes!'. Dammit.

Oh well, maybe by the time I next see the newspaper stand it will have rained hedgehogs somewhere or something.

Created 2004-08-21 04:26:00 by 253 and filed under introspection