September 1. 2020

Boris Johnson

In a July 10, 2020 item on the social networking website Twitter, I stated that Britain's prime minister and Conservative party leader (Tories), Boris Johnson, was attempting to dumb down the nation in an effort to keep the rich rich and the poor poor. I stated this in response to an announcement that Johnson's Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, was scrapping an admirable Labour party program that pledged to send 50% of Britain's young people to university.

I stated on July 10, 2020, "Britain is an intelligent country. This sounds like a bid by the Tories to dumb down the nation to keep a higher concentration of wealth in less hands. Higher education is very important. There's so much one can learn at university." A month later I was proven correct.

During the week of August 10th, 2020, a scandal broke out in Britain regarding Johnson's Tory government using a new algorithm to score students A-levels in Britain, in what would determine their university placement.

The new algorithm issued bad scores to students in poor and middle class areas, while giving high marks to pupils in rich districts. Students who previously got perfect grades were given low marks by the suspect, corrupted algorithm. It was a cruel thing to do to the kids.

My tweet one month before Boris Johnson's government decided to damage the futures of poor and middle class British students via a corrupt computer algorithm designed to benefit rich students in grading them higher and everyone else lower by two grades. People who deserved As in poor and middle class neighborhoods received Cs, dashing their chances of being admitted to the top universities of their choice.

However, what did the public expect from social climbing racist Boris. This is a man who scorns the poor and makes no secret of it. He bashed unwed mothers and their little children. He ignored the needs of the poor in favor of giving government funds and breaks to his rich friends.

When asked by a reporter how much a loaf of bread costs, Boris arrogantly and snobbishly stated, "I can tell you the price of a bottle of champagne." Someone with said mindset would not be looking out for the working class.

Boris and his fellow Tory politicians look down on the poor. The class system in Britain is very rigid and always has been. The upper class in England, which is less than 1% of the nation, looks down on anything that is not Anglo, old money and titled.

Look no further than the royal family who for generations have slurred anything that isn't British, white and bearing a title for generations (Princess Michael Of Kent Causes Outrage In Wearing Racist Slave Broach To Queen's Lunch Held To Meet Prince Harry's Black Fiancée Meghan Markle).

My tweet on Twitter.com prior to Boris Johnson making a u-turn regarding corrupted test scores targeting students in lower income areas

The English aristocracy is an exclusive club and unless your family has been in it and wealthy for generations, hundreds of years, they do not want you in it. They do not want you educated and earning more money than they do.

Even if you are white. If you are poor and white, to them you may as well be black. Quit voting for people who are not looking out for you. Take a good look at how they've just damaged your children's futures with this awful A-levels grading scandal. Look at the message they just sent your kids: work hard in school and I will punish you for being poor.

The irony is a chunk of Boris' supporters are poor white people in the far right who embraced his populist, anti-immigrant themes. I've stated previously that he does not care about them. Now they're seeing it with their own eyes regarding what Boris and his government tried to inflict on their children.

STORY SOURCE

Britain’s Exam Fiasco Wasn’t Just AI’s Fault. It Was Human Error.

For a government that put “leveling up” Britain’s left-behind regions at the heart of its every message, the A-level algorithm was a complete disaster.

August 18, 2020, 3:50 AM EDT - When the U.K. government announced the cancellation of exams to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, there was a collective intake of breath from parents and a giant exhalation from students. These yearly trials usually dominate the beginning of summer for British families with school-age children, who are tested to within an inch of their lives. A-levels — taken at 18 in three or four subjects following a two-year course of study — determine whether and where a pupil can go to university...

What emerged was the opposite. No wonder Johnson has taken the humiliating step of abandoning the technology and falling back on the flawed model of teacher-predicted grades.

The government failed because it didn’t deliver on its promise: It quickly became apparent that pupils — especially poorer ones — weren’t getting the grades they deserved. No algorithm can predict how a student copes in the final stretch of that two-year marathon, those months when endless practice papers and the refining of exam technique can make the difference. Most kids don’t know themselves until they’ve been through it.

https://www.bloomberg.com

'They're robust, they're good': Boris Johnson defends England A-level results as thousands of students degraded

Thursday 13 August 2020, 6:03pm - Prime Minister Boris Johnson has defended the A-level results today despite thousands of teenagers being downgraded, as this year's summer exams were cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

He said: "The exam results we've got today are robust, they're good, they're dependable for employers". He adds: "Pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, more than ever before are now able to go to university, are going to university this year as a result of the grades they've got today."

When asked if he has confidence in Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, he said: "Of course I do, but I think this is a robust system and it's one that is dependable for employers." "It's very important that for years to come people should be able to look at these grades and think these are robust, these are dependable."

Exam boards downgraded nearly 40% of school leavers' grades in England, according to data from Ofqual – which amounts to around 280,000 entries being adjusted down. Students receive A-level results after exams cancelled...

https://www.itv.com

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