Britains school curriculum

   Teenagers are being asked to write about the September 11 atrocities from the point of view of the terrorists as part of their GCSE course. The most popular history syllabus in the UK  requires the 15 and 16 year-olds to consider the motives of extremists who planned the attacks.

In a course taken by more than 70.000 children in England, pupils were presented  with a series of quotations from Osama bin Laden justifying terrorist attacks on New York, Washington, Bali and Madrid, what sort of morons are running the UK educational system, the next thing will be pupils hearing the views of Hitler and Himmler on the "Jewish Question"

Some more utter dross, educators insist that there is no such thing as the truth, children are instructed that often there are no right or wrong answers. If the meaning of the truth and the status of knowledge are negotiable, then so is the curriculum, this has a touch of Orwell's 1984 about it. Pardon me while I reach for the sick bag.