Exterminate it! - Yes, Prime Minister - BBC comedy

[Kalnaf]

Get rid of it! Abolish it! Remove it! Expunge it! Eliminate it! Eradicate it! EXTERminate it! Get rid of it!

LOL

[MBXChquer]

Yay! 80 thousandth viewer. Yay me.

[tyrannosaurusinf14]

wow. just like american educational issues

[roryscanlon]

exterminate it!

like a cockroach.

[Joesolo13]

EXETERMINATE!!!

[MajBlood]

I have to agree with Jim here.

[notablegoat]

EX-TER-MI-NATE THE D-E-S!

[sabaton1231]

2:20 send the daleks to the department of education.

[VigilanteAgumon]

When I heard "Exterminate it," I immediately thought of the Daleks.

[nfrichot]

La volonté politique versus la volonté administrative...

[vjven]

The best series ever. You can see parallels in everyday politics all the time.

[Marcuskristicus]

I always liked the character of Annie Hacker.

The one person in the whole series who's in touch with the real world and what "ordinary people" want.

[marcoma103]

BORING

[gnrrrg]

Best way to ruin education. Schools would lower their grading standards and parents would think that their higher test scores proved they gave a better education and flock to enrol their children.

[studentofsmith]

@gnrrrg Parents aren't that stupid. It might work for a while but once people catch on those schools will be out of business pretty quick.

If you want a practical example of this sort of system at work you may want to look into the educational voucher system used in Sweden. By all accounts it's working just fine.

[DrCruel]

@gnrrrg Certainly, of course. That's why rich parents pay enormous tuitions to send their kids to private schools - because these institutions inflate grades so that the parents think their children are doing well. That of course doesn't explain why public school teachers send their kids to private school - about one in five, last time I checked.

Parents can choose what their kids eat and what doctors they go to. But they mustn't be allowed to choose amongst teachers. The world would end.

[ValiantVendetta]

@DrCruel Catholic schools in Australia usually have much better facilities, current technology and a safer environment for your child to study in. I attended public and private schools in the UK and Australia... the private schools were better in both countries.

[DrCruel]

@ValiantVendetta They have to be better. It's not like they are guaranteed students, like the state-sponsored school monopoly is. If a private school does not maintain standards, it goes out of business.

[Vicki12692]

and this is why there should be more women in government. we have better ideas ;)

[EnglishmaninPoland]

It always amazes me that people think teachers are only working while they're at school. It's like believing a newsreader works barely half an hour every day!

[DavidUmstattd]

Wow... that's actually a good idea. imagine having the free market take over education and abolishing the department of education. As the British would say "Brilliant!"

[LazyBoy3325]

so that only the rich can afford it? hell no

[chetansingh2006]

lol I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING FOR Indias Department of education  exterminate it lol

[CymruAlteran]

a little dalekin that women

[bobalobs1]

A radical idea would be teachers actually working a full year and not 6 months of the year while whining on about being underpaid and overworked.

[togashiayame]

Try being a teacher before you make comments like this

[bobalobs1]

Try being a parent and having to try and find 16 weeks a year holiday while teachers whine on about how underpaid they are, are these bleater actually aware that most people get 20 days a year,. Return to school after 4 week break at Xmas on 11 Jan, then get another long break 5 weeks later. I personally think teachers do a great job, but conversely, they get an excessive amount of holiday compared to the rest of the working population.

[psychodave0]

Hi, teacher here.

A lot of teachers go in at half term/term time and do extra work, most other jobs (unless you're at managerial level) also do not have so much 'homework' - I often come home from a 8 hour day to then spend most my evening marking or preparing lessons for tomorrow.

All you need to do is see the demand for teachers to see. Most people won't give up their social lives to get paid a fairly average wage that requires a decent degree and ungodly patience.

[finaldestiny17]

@psychodave0 a teacher, whose username is psychodave?? RIIIIIGHT

[psychodave0]

@finaldestiny17 I'm 23, this handle has been used by me since I was like 14. My name isn't even Dave. It's meant to be a pseudonym, and that it will remain.

[DrCruel]

@psychodave0 Where I live, there's teachers queued up to get teaching positions. The choice is mostly made on the basis of social connections and perceived union loyalty.

But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe our public school teachers are not the sort of self-interested twits I've had in my experience. Let's have a national school voucher program, so that parents can have a choice about which of these "excellent teachers" to employ. Then we'd get to the bottom of our present public education mess.

[DrCruel]

@togashiayame It's like saying one has to be a thief before speaking out against crime.

[koppe74]

"I think it'll be a clash between the political will and the administrative *won't*!" -LOL-

[xshadowx324]

i want to b there wen u tell humphrey-lol

[steelgear]

With the national elections coming up for Australia I think this would be an awesome idea for an educational policy. I'd love hear what John Howard or Kevin Rudd would say if they saw this LOL.

[CashOnTheNail1955]

Should be MANDATORY; edited replies from politicians screened before appropriate Yes Minister & Prime Minister episodes

[goldenshadow]

I have a sudden memory of Utah's fight over Referendum One...

[gemmie64]

Great, dry British humour

[morepaths2c]

outstanding!!

[DalekCaan13]

lol, what about the bad teachers

[abediv]

The scary thing about Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister is how topical they still seem after 20+ years.

[tessieinc]

goes to show that nothing has changed.

[RuleBritannnia]

That is one of the finest traditions of the British Civil Service: creative inertia (professional staling), perfected over centuries.

[tessieinc]

touche

[nokiagaming]

I think they'll still be relevant in 100 years. They're wonderfully timeless in the way they show people with the best of intentions gradually being corrupted.

[hansellius]

@nokiagaming Very very true. I've noticed that Politics classes use this for examples. In time, even if British politics changes, it'll become an historical source, I imagine.

Timeless, in a way that much comedy these days is not. It's a shame they don't make things this good any more, really.

[Catsion]

You cannot imagine how relevant this matter is here, in Lithuania. Although the reform is done - schools and universities get paid for the number of attendants.

[WarriorWings]

political will and administrative won't

hahahaha

[DrCruel]

It seems more workable than funny. Why not?

[DaystarDragon]

That lady is so funny! Exteeerminate IT!!!!

[ihatemillyssic9]

LOL yes pm is so funny

[eldritch1j]

Thanks for putting this up, YM is a classic.