{"id":178,"date":"2006-08-24T10:46:43","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T14:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2006-08-24T10:46:43","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T14:46:43","slug":"w00t-as-we-educated-types-say-w00t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"w00t, as we educated types say: w00t!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I take back everything I have ever said about the dumbing down of British education. It is clear that this year&#8217;s <span class=\"caps\">GCSE<\/span>s are exceptionally rigorous and discerning exams after the <span class=\"caps\">FWB <\/span>got one B (Textiles), two As (maths and Art), and all the rest A*. She also had a letter telling her that she had scored one of the top five marks awarded to anyone in her English literature <span class=\"caps\">GCSE.<\/span> That&#8217;s the one which was taken this year by <em>362,438<\/em> pupils.<\/p>\n\n<p>Oh yes &#8211; she also got an A for the history AS level, taken a year early.<br \/>\n<span class=\"loony\">&lt;\/Mary Ann Sieghart&gt;<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I take back everything I have ever said about the dumbing down of British education. It is clear that this year&#8217;s <span class=\"caps\">GCSE<\/span>s are exceptionally rigorous and discerning exams after the <span class=\"caps\">FWB <\/span>got one B (Textiles), two As (maths and Art), &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=178\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=178\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}