People ask me which country my son will be educated in. My answer is, 'Wherever I am because he will be home-schooled and taught by me.' Tanya frowns at this but here's the way I see it, based on current world reports about education:

Let's start with the UK. Once the world leader in all things education. Nowadays every Tom, Dick or Tracy gets so many As that the universities simply can't take them. They can do this because their parents have worked their balls off and can afford to give their kids the 700 quid needed to buy the right essay through the internet.
And let's not forget that a percentage of these apparently don't have skills in ther basics.
The whole school system, sorry, League Table is a joke. Even John Bailey (a fellow Ambrosian but someone who knew they were not up to much in the grey matter department) could have left school with results that would have seen him into Cambridge or Oxford, based on the current level of 'demands'.

The Aussie system? That too is becoming a joke as they now wish to follow the Yanks! Enough said, in my book.

Here's my point; if you are breeding less qualified students and said students go through the university system where standards have also been lowered, the end product is of a much lower quality. Ergo, teachers entering the workplace will be unable to teach my son to the standards that my parents expected and that I received.

I also want my son to be able to learn how to perform a frontward and backward roll without the teacher being listed on the sex-offenders register.

I also want my son to play outside and, when he falls over and cuts his lip or busts an arm, the police don't need to get involved.

Furthermore, I don't want to be asked to take some other parents to court just because little 'Johnny' taught my son a rude word. I'll teach him all the words between the hard front and back pages of the OED and when to use them to greatest effect.

I don't want him to have to sit tests just so his school can get a few extra quid and make the teachers look good.

And I don't want my son to be unable to spend valuable hours extending his dexterity by learning how to make Christmas decorations just because one of his schoolmate's great grandfather owned a corner shop! He's going to have to deal with Communism as it it, what with having blood-related KGB agents in his midst.

No, the way I see it, education is on its knees and it all changed when the 'O' and 'A' Levels, the ones we hated so much, vanished because the thick wankers in power today believe our children couldn't pass them.

I wish I'd have bought shares in cotton wool!