Oh So Tedious

This week a proposal was put forward. I am tempted to leave it at that due to my indignation to the idea, but that would be a very bad idea for a writer of a blog, so here goes…. They want to predict who the criminals of the future are, whilst they are still in primary school. No joke, April Fools was yesterday.

What this means is looking at statistics and choosing what students the teachers dislike, and as a student I can tell you that this will be everyone in the class apart from Miss Laura Lovedogood and Charlie Algebralover.
I recall a film that did something very similar to this, apart from thier methods were a lot more effective, and even that ended up in tears and failing with the murder happening and Tom Cruise getting his name on yet another film.
I think that statistics are a good way to see what is happening and what has happened, but they tend to be a rough guideline.
For example when smoking began getting big in the UK, people started asking questions and eventually they found a correlation between smoking and lung disease, but due to the unreliability of correlation the cigarette companies went in search of some kind of statistic to show just how reliable statistics were, and they found it. They claimed that there was a stronger correlation between the number of bananas arriving into Bristol docks and Lung disease than there was between people who smoked and getting lung cancer - this obviously proved that smoking was okay and we now have a massive contributor to breathing difficulties and premature death.

So hopefully you can see my reservations about statistics and using them as labels to hang over young people and try to enforce the Blair “no accidents are allowed unless they are performed by a politician” climate, I also think that this is contributing to the so-called “Big Brother” state where we can’t go anywhere without being watched and eventually will have to ask permission to think and eventually breathing out of sync will result in an ASBO and a HSDO (Health and Safety Death Order).
These bonkers and uncalled for plans also seem to me to be a back door for the much hated ID cards, which even though is facing 99.3% of the population wanting to burn Tony’s ears off for even mentioning this plastic menace, is apparently a good idea, despite doing the same job as a passport and driving license but being easier to steal. As soon as you have every persons fingerprint on a database all you need is a private contract and a big pile of plastic and then you have Terrorists on your doorstep, police in your son’s school, your daughter courting some bloke called Brian who thinks Algebra is a country and Gordon Brown watching your every step to make sure you never make a mistake EVER again.
Looks like another victory for our government and a kick in the knackers for common sense.