Tuesday 26 June 2012

'Astonishingly ignorant'

Yesterday, an Express headline said: 'Most students are ignorant about our war heroes'.

Indeed, not just ignorant about the Second World War but 'astonishingly' so, according to Express journalist John Chapman:

British children are astonishingly ignorant of our nation’s role in the Second World War, a survey has revealed.

More than half of secondary school children did not realise the Battle of Britain was fought in the air, just one third knew the conflict began in 1939 and only one in five understood what happened on D-Day.

Thankfully, the Express is here to educate our children. So they illustrated the story with a photo showing, according to the caption, Battle of Britain Spitfires.



Unfortunately for the Express, the picture actually shows Hurricanes. 

13 comments:

  1. Ahahahaha... hahahaha. The Express. Christ.

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  2. Wing shape. The Spitfire has a unique wing shape. But the Desmond press probably doesn't pay enough to get hacks who can do the basics.

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    1. Well, it's hard to see wing shape from that angle, but canopies are also very distinctive.

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  3. The Battle of Britain didn't begin in 1939.

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  4. Any cynical attempt to promote http://www.channel5.com/shows/war-hero-in-my-family/ by any chance?????

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    1. Don't be silly. Desmond never ever uses cross promotion. Otherwise the Star would be stuffed full of Big Brother.

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  5. You couldn't make it up...

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  6. The obvious explanation is the the Express is written by school children. :)

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  7. As the second World War is taught halfway through the secondary history curriculum, it seems logical that at any given time half of the pupils in secondary schools won't have studied it. Or am I missing something?

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  8. it's aeronautical correctness gone mad!

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  9. Shock news, British kids brought up on UK tabloids 'know fuck all' it was discovered recently.

    However, it did show that the information picked up from schools, books and other information sources had a basis in fact, research showed.

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