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A physics teacher, Wellington Grey, has written an open letter to the Department of Education begging for the return of his subject:

I am a physics teacher. Or, at least I used to be. My subject is still called physics. My pupils will sit an exam and earn a GCSE in physics, but that exam doesn’t cover anything I recognize as physics. Over the past year the UK Department for Education and the AQA board changed the subject. They took the physics out of physics and replaced it with… something else, something nebulous and ill defined. I worry about this change. I worry about my pupils, I worry about the state of science education in this country, and I worry about the future physics teachers — if there will be any.

He goes on to say that his complaints about the new syllabus fall into four categories: the vague, the stupid, the political, and the non-science.

Read the whole letter here (including a petition to bring back mathematical rigor into secondary physics education) and a very funny sample examination which includes the question above, here. (via Shuggy via Butterflies & Wheels)

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