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As the table shows May is a net plus 18% while Corbyn a net minus 28%.
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Really surprised by the Grammar school figure. May more politically astute than I thought.
off topc - Ouch, those numbers are horrible.
Corbyn landslide in the leadership election.
One of the best things Thatcher did was to close/merge a record breaking number of grammars, she knew the damage grammars cause.
The suspect, described as a Swiss man aged 27, was also taken to hospital after the incident near Salez in St Gallen Canton, close to Liechtenstein.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37072847
I think given the current climate it would be more helpful if the authorities were clearer about the individual.
protection moneycontributions IF we don't end up leaving.It might be daft but why don't they make all existing schools have the same quality of education as grammar ones, instead of secondary moderns like now.
I'd be slightly surprised if 99% of Anglo-Saxon Englishmen are descended from Mohammed, though, as John of Gaunt had 3 wives and many more temporary arrangements - of his entire litter, Constance had only one child - Catherine of Castile - who survived infancy
edit: you may be muddling it up with the statistic that something like 70% (?) of the current British population are descended from Edward III?
My useless fact about John of Gaunt is that his badge was the red lion, which is partly why there are so many pubs of that name.
It could be a sea change or it could be an interesting example of a methodological/question problem.
We just call them 'comprehensives'.
Just as re-badging polytechnics universities didn't convert them into world class universities.
But hey, at least we can claim that No One Is Left Behind. Apart from the ones left behind, of course.
All they do is put more kids on the scrapheap, what we should be doing is making sure we improve all state schools.
She saw the evidence, ask yourself, if she thought it was a mistake, when she was PM, usually with stonking majorities, why didn't she open a single new grammar school as PM?
She saw the evidence.
- Margaret Thatcher, speech to the Conservative Party Conference, 14 October, 1977.
Over the very long term things change.
After 40 years of trying with the comprehensive system and failing to produce results, the evidence is against it.
Next you'll be complaining that water is wet.
The world's changed from when grammar and secondary schools were the norm. Most parents want their children to go to university. They expect an education system that is oriented towards them achieving that result. They are very negative towards any system that discriminates against their children.
I would hope that if we have learnt that the Grammars have a role to play in academic education (and maybe social mobility - all open to discussion) and that for those who are not endowed with academic ability, they have other skills. Maybe they are late developers, maybe they have strengths in other directions, but by now and with the learning we have from the previous incarnation of Grammar Schools, is it really the case that the only alternative is a return to Secondary Moderns? Surely we now know how to educate, value, encourage, nurture and challenge the non academic. Regardless of the existence of Grammar Schools, we are still going to have to deal with academic and non academic children.
If hand on heart you believe our current system is the best imaginable for the nations children, then that is fine. If it isn't, shouldn't we push for the best imaginable for all children?
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One of the things I particularly remember was the pride of the teachers, who for the first time were working with a set of children they could really push to a higher level of achievement. It was a brave new world.
Going back to a grammar/secondary modern system will undo all of that - condemning the vast majority of schools, their pupils and teachers alike, to a world in which their ambitions and attainments are capped.
Tragic, utterly tragic.
I think we have to become a bit more elitist, we have to accept that 50% going to uni is a mistake, we need to make sure when children leave school they have the skills to start work straightaway.
Why not have academic selections within schools? I think they call it setting.
Looking at OGH's twitter feed he looks a bit obsessed to say the least, more like a breathing dragon every time someone mentions "Corbyn".
28 tweets dumping Corbyn in the last 48 hours, who is he ? Trump ?
Similarly, when asked their views on grammar schools, they never consider that they or their children might be among the losers.
This can result in the 'setting' turning into setting on the odd one out who 'over achieves'
The 1990's, but only in the western world.
The point is that it *isn't* self-sufficient in food.
I dud a quick back of the envelope which came up with 91% self sufficient (62.7/69).
Checking I seem to have underestimated Irish agriculture output.
For example, Beef self sufficiency in RoI is 640% ie enough beef for 32 million people.
For Sheep it is 370%. For pork 195%.
So I reckon it is fair to say that the British Isles is self sufficient in terms of being able to adequately (if boringly) feed the population.
Given a population of 70 million that shows how agricultural productivity has improved over the 20th century.
But, what you point to is a good thing. People imagine themselves doing well, rather than badly, and that leads people to take the risk of setting up their own business, exploring new places, inventing new devices.
pass the smelling salts ....
Back then for the western world it was all peace and prosperity.
I brung you a massage:
The Scrooming Ogles has a drodful iccent when he spooks French!
Please name another western developed country with an 11+ and better results than England/Wales. Finland? No selective schools but it seems more selective in who it allows to teach: http://oph.fi/english/education_system/basic_education. Scotland? No selective schools either.
There are different levels of GCSE papers within each qualification - and so the top level you can achieve is determined by the papers the school determines that you shall take.
It might not be as overt - but it still exists.
Every child leaving primary school is graded by their teachers and that determines how they start at secondary school. And this is causing problems for many, many secondary teachers.
The reason is that many primary schools are inflating the scores of their pupils meaning the kids are not fully prepared for the challenges that await them. This particularly noticeable in maths where kids arrive with a report that says they are at a certain level - and they then struggle when being taught at the appropriate level in their new school.
External moderated assessment at the end of primary school would eliminate that and give secondary schools the information they need to tailor things to the needs of their new intakes rather than having to deal with primary schools who (understandably?) inflate their own achievements.
I would have loved a grammar school education - as it was a real struggle to be taught in a mixed ability comprehensive where academic achievement was scorned. Yes, I managed ok - but my schooling would have been more rewarding if I had been in an environment where getting top marks singled you out for bullying.
Drips unite! Mind you they are wet.
How wonderfully simple, it's obvious that we need just two types of schools to cater for the needs of these different and easily identifiable species.
I can perfectly understand that if one is tweeting every 90 minutes on average about the same issue or person one is to assume that he is obsessed with it.
If OGH starts to tweet about how much crap he thinks Corbyn is at 4 in the morning, then I would be slightly concerned.
Personally I believe in the cut-off point being GCSE (16 yrs), at which point people could go to a 'prep' school for another two years thereafter to pursue a university degree, or go to a focused FE college for 3 years vocational, technology, craft etc. qualifications. This would mean personal choice played a big role.
I don't agree that failure to attain a Grammar School place results in inevitable failure and abandonment. I am putting forward the concept that there are additional ways in which that cohort can be valued, nurtured and see themselves with wonderful futures.
The old system of Secondary Moderns is not acceptable, a new system could well be nirvana for these children.
If we are not intellectually capable of seeing past historic failures then we may as well give up on all children. We would have no future
I know, because he regularly sends me emails at 3/4 am.
And occasionally when Mike's not paying attention, when he thinks he's composing an email, he's actually sending me a text.