Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Private member Bill

I know that Hays but what sense does it make for a labour peer to propose such a bill at this time? As you state, it will frighten labour if it ever gets out of the Upper House. Maybe a sign of the mess Labour is in.

Many in Labour want a GE soon for Corbyn to lose and have to resign. It may be in connection with that. However, Lord Desai is a Marxist economist and supporter of Corbyn. Will only pass if May wants it To

Air China condemned over racist remarks in in-flight magazine:
"London is generally a safe place to travel, however precautions are needed when entering areas mainly populated by Indians, Pakistanis and black people," the magazine says.
"We advise tourists not to go out alone at night, and females always to be accompanied by another person when traveling."
How dare you say that!
Next story on Sky News:
More than 50% of female students at UK universities complain of sexual harassment when going out at night.

These days you can't say boo to a goose, these feminist are being allowed
to go to far..

Its human nature for a guy to try and chat a girl up, how else are they to find
out whether its their lucky night or not...

Grammar Schools going down a bomb.

NASA has launched a a rocket to land on a meteor to collect some dust,
the OSIRIS Rex craft

And whenever you have people on from these space agencies they either
appear to have been on the pixie dust all giddy and that, or have a mad
scientist look in their eyes....

Why the ideological hatred of gramma skools?


Shurely it's a good way of accelerating the able, whilst allowing the also rans to go at a pace more suited to their abilities?

Would you pass the 11-plus? Try some real test papers like wot I done when I were 11

The New Beginning.

Wait until the NHS returns to the 40s and Social Services to the Workhouses!

if the luvvies and lefties accept streaming across nearly all subjects, then surely a decent comprehensive can and should be every bit as good as a grammar school

and of course there are bad grammar schools just as there are bad comprehensives ..... and unsupportive and non-aspirational parents everywhere

It depends on the quality of teaching, discipline, organisation and quality of building facilities, also the support of the "parents" and "community".

Instead of buying a house in the "school's locality" to get a "better" education, the more affluent will buy coaching for their kids to "pass" the eleven plus.

A sensible "comprehensive" should be capable of providing "streaming" to cater for the different abilities and leanings of its pupils.

The main problem with the switch to "comprhensive education" chaotic introduction and lack of appropriate and resourced buildings and "rush" for ideological reasons to do so.

Ill thought out and managed.

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But streaming is anathema to the lefty teaching unions Fred.

How do you get around that?

Streaming happens in all comprehensives. So much so that the top streams rarely speak to the lower streams or even know their names

fred - you get crap schools everywhere and not just in poor inner city areas

my daughter thought of going into teaching a few years back ....
she was invited to a day at some school in sutton or thereabouts, but she reported back that the teachers had such low aspirations for the pupils that there was no incentive at all for those of ability..... as she said, she could never ever work in that sort of atmosphere

so, it's not jut a case of funding and money, but something far more deep-seated - eg it tends to be middle-class parents who have aspirations for their children and who will also support and instil discipline into their childrens' lives

Manuel,

Aspirations for their offspring applies across the various "classes" in different ways.

But I "think" there is a feeling of despair and despondency amongst many in the financially and less endowed of UK society.

They feel and I think rightly so that the odds are stacked against them.

Have a look at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07n8yc4/conversations-lord-kinnock

You may understand a little more of the difficulties of aspiring and perhaps his motivations.

He was in college at the same time myself and many of our views differed at the time but there has been a gradual convergence in "understanding" and "outlook".

"Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

Where English(British) children are the minority in many inner city schools
and the mother tongues are spoken by dozens of different nationalities, English
is their second language in classrooms.

So those English(British)who lag behind in academic ability are neglected,
because the teachers are to busy translating(explaining) to all these foreign
children.

Anyone who takes advice from that MILLIONAIRE socialist LORD kinnock wants
their heads examining...