Back in the 1980s, Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick in The Wall' summed up the frustrations of a generation of young people in Thatcher’s Britain – bullied and fed through a mincer of rote-learning, millions were thrown on the scrapheap of the dole queue.

Fast forward three decades, and it’s Thatcher-2, the horror sequel.

Today it's PM David Cameron's hit-man, Education Minister Michael Gove, who's the classroom bully, and teachers and school students alike who are being force-fed through the mincer.

But teachers are hitting back, and have staged a series of national strikes in their two-year battle against the Con-Dem government. In the latest strike, on March 26, a walkout by the 300,000 members of the National Union of Teachers - the most radical of the teachers' unions -�� brought thousands of schools to a full or partial standstill in an effort to get Gove back to the negotiating table for realistic talks about the massive attacks on education and teachers he is trying to ram through.

Thousands of teachers staged a lively march in central London, where they explained their reasons for striking and their rejection of Gove'��s rote-learning proposals.

In particular, teachers are protesting ever-lengthening working hours. Surveys show that primary school teachers are working an average of 60 hours a week and secondary school teachers 56 hours a week. These are forced upon them by ever-increasing amounts of form-filling, reports and testing, rather than classroom teaching.

Through these so-called 'reforms', Cameron, Gove & Co. are determined to force down teachers' wages and conditions, as part of the Con-Dem government's austerity measures aimed at shifting the burden of the economic crisis away from the bankers and big businesses that caused it, and on to the shoulders of already hard-hit ordinary working people and their families.

The attacks on teachers' pay and conditions are also part of Gove's crusade to churn out a new generation of school-leavers drilled by soulless, dumbed-down and part-privatized education. His eventual goal appears to be to turn schools from centers of genuine learning into privatized exam factories, where young people leaving school will be fed into low-paid jobs on zero-hours contracts – all to feed the insatiable appetite for profits by Cameron, Osborne, Gove and Co.'s friends in big business.

Hey, Gove - leave them teachers alone!

Seems like the British are up in arms over education while America just sits back and accepts the Common Core that will destroy what little America has remaining.



Just imagine rote-learning and now Common Core, totally elimination of thinking over 3 decades.



So now it's Cameron's turn in the barrel and what bigger idiot but Odumbo is there? Having to work 60 hour weeks and it's not about teaching but meeting government reporting requirement to insure the same level of depravity over the nation.



Now what can be wrong with the Kremlin when they so eloquently place the blame square on the shoulders that are responsible. Could be worth your time to read the complete article.