You mean Keith "won't someone think of the children" Vaz? Already hold him in utter contempt anyway.
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You mean Keith "won't someone think of the children" Vaz? Already hold him in utter contempt anyway.
By election to replace dead councillor, lib dems took from labour.
They had someone doing an exit poll on the polling station and when I left it there was a labour supporter giving them a verbal kicking.
Labour canvessors were claimed to be telling people to "vote labour cause it's a labour area" by new libdem counciler.
labour councillor on radio now saying people told their canvassors they weren't voting for labour run by corbyn.
Also did anyone watch question time last night? looks like we're having perpetual tory governments.
I heard Corbyn was sublimely unruffled by any of the credible arguments that Smith raised to him...
Corbyn seemed divorced from reality, he literally had people in the audience telling him its the people they've lost to ukip and the tories they need to get back not the 300k new members from the far left.
And the smith guy came across poorly looking like a typical slimey oppurtunistic politican.
I'd imagine it's on iplayer if you fancy an hour shouting at the TV.
When you make such a good offer I regret not seeing it until now - spent a night making final adjustments to my Space Wolves...
Currently torn on the selective schools debate.
On one hand, I'm proper leftie and thus against elitism and any mechanic which seeks to enforce it. 11+ isn't a bad thing as such, but that success is often linked to private tutoring, it seems kids from less affluent backgrounds are at a serious disadvantage.
On the other? I wasn't allowed to take the 11+, because when I moved to England I was too old - thus Grammar Schools (and there's many in my area!) were closed to me. This mean The Local Comp, where despite being a gifted student I was lumped amongst those not really interested in learning. Sadly, this lead to a negative effect on my own efforts - I learned quickly (still do), yet by the time the rest of the class was ready to move on, I was bored out my skull.
In short? Grammar Schools themselves are not a bad thing. But I'm far from sold on the mechanics of getting into one.
One of my relatives went to a grammar school, from a working class inner city estate and did well from it(uni when it meant something and chartered surveyor and early retirement). The alternative would have been an apprenticeship and into the steel mills in some form or another at that time.
I wish I'd had the option because the first three years of comp with me being bored and ignored cause they were busy dealing with the bottom of the class affected all my later education.
Pretty much what happened to me there 'Splodge.
So Grammars definitely do have their place - people with a natural aptitude need to be given help to develop and realise that, just as kids who need educational support for special and behavioural needs absolutely deserve it.
But when access to a Grammar favours those whose parents can afford extra tuition? I feel that's kind of missing the point. Kids need to sink or swim on their own ability, not the depths of their parent's pockets.
At the very least, have a second 11+ the following year for those who didn't make the cut first time around - kids develop at different rates, and a year can make a big old difference.
Yep, but as I think they said n the BBC they already have a selection by "who can afford to live in the catchment postcode" when it comes to good schools.
There's always going to be people playing the system, I mean I went to a primary school for three months as it was a feeder school to a supposedly better (it wasn't in reality just more modern buildings) comp that said they'd take me if I could get in a feeder school. Was it worth it? dunno. Suppose I probably would have gone to collage rather than sixth form, and probably wouldn't have stayed in the ATC as long as I did(cause the one closest that school spent more time on drill than running round the woods). Probably wouldn't have ever met my first longterm girlfriend. *shrugs*