According to the British National Party website the British National Party will try to achieve the following if they gain power at the 2010 general election:

Britain once led the world in education and technology – and can do so again, but only if it follows some basic rules to rebuild its educational system in such a way that it nurtures the innate genius which lies in our nation’s youth.

The problems with the British educational system are well known to all. Simply put, the British educational system is not working. Exams have been dumbed down and while more students are obtaining meaningless bits of paper, employers are complaining that graduates cannot spell.

“Citizenship” lessons are a euphemism for political indoctrination. Discipline has collapsed, trendy teaching methods have failed and schools face a crisis. The abolition of grants and introduction of fees for university students has hit poor children hardest, while soft, useless subjects are replacing the hard sciences of value to Britain.

In short, this nation stands before an educational abyss, and only the British National Party has the educational policy designed to pull it back from the brink.

The BNP’s policy consists of the following building blocks:

– The restoration of discipline – including corporal punishment – uniforms, traditional teaching methods and stricter exams (e.g. ‘0′ levels);

– The reintroduction of grammar schools with entrance exams at 11 and 13;

– The reversal of the programme to close special needs schools which penalises the most vulnerable;

– The reintroduction of competitive sports and daily Christian assemblies;

– The teaching of old-fashioned literacy skills (as opposed to clearly failed “modern” teaching methods);

– The teaching of old-fashioned mathematics skills which have practical application to everyday life;

– The teaching of a full curriculum of British history. This will instil in our young people knowledge of and pride in the history, cultures and heritage of the native peoples of Britain, and not the cherry-picked politically correct drivel being fed to children today;

– The abolition of fees and the restoration of full grants to university students studying proper subjects (as opposed to fake “social sciences”);

– The improvement of school food as proper meals have been shown to be linked to behaviour and achievement;

– The ending of the scandalous and racist neglect that has left working class white boys at the bottom of the table for academic achievement;

– The introduction of tax breaks for home-schooling parents or direct subsidies as their fair share of the education budget;

– The introduction of a compulsory Community Award Scheme for all school-leavers to teach them work ethics and social and community values. This would consist of work caring for the elderly or handicapped people, or environmental or heritage restoration projects, or military training. These courses would be character-building and instil discipline, social and community values and work ethics in all young people. Service in this scheme would entitle each individual to get ’something back’ from the society to which they have learnt to contribute, such as free university education, a properly supported apprenticeship, or business training and start-up capital for would-be entrepreneurs.

Britain can be great once again – with the BNP’s plan to rescue this nation’s educational system

The time has come for change.

British National Party Education Policy :http://bnp.org.uk/policies/education/

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