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Oliver Schick
The correct answer of course is both systems. We trade with the United States as well as with all the metric countries, and of course many things of British origin are both measured in imperial sizes and de facto international standards. It doesn't make any sense to only teach one of the systems. Things people come across will be either.
Things like wheels and tyres for example are far more commonly imperial than metric, and sometimes, amusingly in a combination of both (120/90x10 for example being 120mm/90% x 10in). Then we have the relative ubiquity of the ounce in small scale narcotics transactions. People who buy drugs in metric measurements usually do serious time :-)
In Britain we still prefer pints to litres and even if we are forced to buy fuel in litres we still calculate economy in miles per gallon, and of course drive in miles. Plus we have the wonderful British system of weather where if it's cold we measure temperature in Celcius ("eek, it's minus 3 out there!"), but if it's getting warm we switch to Farenheight ("yay, it'll be 85 degrees this weekend").
I like these things, and think they make Britain nicer. Plus I don't have a fucking clue what a kilometer is anyway.