A Dose of Reality

Will shareholders rebel and ensure that there are no more bonuses for failure? It seems that some companies are taking this message on board if the reductions in last year's bonuses at Lloyds TSB are anything to go by. There seems to be a correlation between the idea that you can be paid a bonus for failure to the socialist educational idea that no child should be made to compete with another as it is wrong to instil in the young the notion that there are winners and losers and that only winners get prizes. Hence the abolition of competitive sports in many schools and in others that all who compete must win prizes. Everyone, including the children, know who the winners and losers are and it is a nonsense to pretend all are equal. It is also a disservice to pretend that someone has done better in an exam than is the case. That is why Gove's statement yesterday that we will see falls in the levels of those with A grades etc is not only so important but also about time too. Grade inflation cheats children and employers. Gove also let it be known that certain teachers who have been peddling the wrong kind of education are going to lose their jobs. Nothing warm and fuzzy about that statement and nothing warm and fuzzy about Cameron's comment at PMQs today that he is in favour of competition in the NHS. A pity that the government is not going to privatise it altogether leaving the money to follow the patient. A dose of reality a day helps keep the country on the straight and narrow.