Falling Educational Standards (4)

This is an update on the posts of 21 May 2014, 24 August 2015 and 13 January 2016 about numbers fixed to the fencing round a local school to help teach the children how to count. I noticed recently that there has been a new development since my last observation, as can be seen in the photograph below.

The number '1' and '3' are still there, but have been joined by what appear to me to be three shapes. They could just as easily be the numbers '1', '2', and '3' in some obscure language of the Indian subcontinent. According to Wikipedia, the Census of India 2001 found that India had 122 major languages and 1599 other languages.

Falling Educational Standards? (3)

On 21 May 2014 and 24 August 2015 I showed how the numbers affixed to the fence of a local primary school to teach the children how to count were gradually reducing  and questioned whether this indicated that educational standards were slipping. The photograph below shows what I saw when I went past the school recently.

The even number '2' has disappeared since the last time I noticed the numbers, leaving just the odd numbers '1' and '3'. I suppose the odds were that this would happen.

'2' down and two to go.

Falling Educational Standards? (2)

On 21st May 2014 I showed some photographs of numbers on a fence outside a primary school in Hyde. Originally the numbers 1 to 9 were on the fence, but by May 2014 it had been reduced to the numbers 1 to 5 and I queried whether this showed that educational standards were slipping. This is a photograph I took of the fence recently.

So now we're down to the numbers 1 to 3 and the dumbing down of our childrens' education seems to be getting worse and worse. I fully expect to pass this fence in a few weeks' time and find just a huge number '1'.

Falling Educational Standards?

I was walking down this street at the height of summer three years ago when I noticed these intriguing shadows on the pavement. There's a primary school on the right-hand side and the numbers had been placed on the fence to help the children to learn their numbers and how to count.

Passing by the school frequently since then I had noticed that exposure to the elements was taking its toll on the numbers more and more until they were eventually replaced as shown in the next photograph which I took a couple of months ago.

Are they now teaching the children to count only from one to five instead of from one to ten as previously taught?