The last refuge of the pointless question, the Daily Mail poll continues to hit new depths. A recent question asks: Should history be a compulsory subject in our schools?
What a completely vague question. History is already compulsory up to the end of KS3, which goes up to the end of Year 9. By then students should have a pretty good grasp of some important events and really, unless they choose to study it at GCSE, why should they have to continue?
It seems likely that most of this 94% have read the question and assumed that History is no longer compulsory up to any age, which is of course untrue.
What is a more useful issue to be discussed is the extent of politics taught in PSHE and Citizenship lessons, to stop the current generation being completely apathetic regarding having their say and voting.
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