Bag's Rants

What is a Legacy?

I was reading this article by the BBC on Blair's legacy for schools and was left actually wondering what a legacy was. So I looked it up on Wiktionary. It said Noun : 'Something bequeathed, left, or established for future generations'. Well he has left something for future generations. I wouldn't have put it as bequeathed or established as that sound like something positive was coming your way. It also said Adjective : 'left behind; old or no longer in active use'. Well that is more like it.

Where I was confused is that I actually thought that his legacy was the educational system where he was looking at actually raising the standard for education in the UK. Nope, it is simply that he has got rid of all those comprehensives, where incidentally I got a good education, and replaced them with specialist schools, city academies and city technology colleges. What? That is his legacy. After 10 years in office he has screwed up our educational system and produced a couple of generations who can not read, write or do sums as well as making the qualifications of the ones who can do well worthless by adjusting the figures to make it look like more are doing well. Knowing this, and knowing we all know his claim to fame in the educational area is that he converted all our comprehensive schools into other schools quicker than the previous lot converted grammar schools into comprehensive. Whoopie Do Dah. Unbelievable.

posted by Bag @ 4:06 pm