Excellent Analogies of the British Education System

First, watch this video. Below I will explain how this is a very adequate metaphor of the British Education system.

Let's go back to the moment of the aerial view of the race (https://youtu.be/BgdtUfzwLig?t=3m15s): as expected, the differences between all runners are mostly maintained, and those who started further behind are left behind. In other words, in the time it takes the most advantaged runners to reach the finish line, the disadvantaged only reach half, or two thirds, or three quarters of the way.

A country's education system should acknowledge the differences between runners at the start of the race and offer all students the means and opportunities to reach the same finish line by the end of their time in education. Instead, the British education system, acknowledges and puts a huge effort into measuring and quantifying the initial differences, only to make sure they stay the same by the end of their time in education.

How? If you have read or followed this blog you will have come across the answer in many different forms and examples. Here goes one more time: the willing executors of this Machiavellian classist system, known as teachers (but certainly not worthy of that name), set targets to the students that mirror and perpetuate the initial differences. Then they measure their progress against these targets and deceive the students and their parents with reports that they are doing well because they are working to target. 

This other video comes in handy: we have see it on TV before the May 2016 elections in the UK and it plays at the expected and understandable indignation anyone would feel when told that they are not allowed to do something others are. How come it is so obvious for voting and no one says anything about the identical situation, but with worse effects, that this perverse education system is putting all children into?

Setting targets is exactly the same as telling the student that he/she can't do better, and that he/she won't be allowed to have the same opportunities as the others.