h*tp://www.civitas.org.uk/blog/2007/06/a_physics_teacher_begs_for_his.html
Some of you may have seen this elsewhere, it's been around a bit. The teacher argues that physics has become a media studies class at GCSE with pupils taught to debate about issues of the day, based on their opinions. The actual science has been removed.
You have to read it to get the full gist, so please do.
If this is true it's horrific, with all the Government's talk of a knowledge economy, and the tractor-production-like incessant increase in education results too.
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