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Dogsauce said:
You can still sort classes by ability (setting) to better align teaching with pupil's aptitude for certain subjects yet have people able to socialise across broader groups of friends. That then allows for people who are really good at a couple of subjects but not at others to do well where they can, whereas throwing them into a school for broadly less able (or more able) wouldn't help them. One of my friends got three science A levels but had to redo their GCSE English to get into university. They'd never have got into a grammar if that situation was in place (they were quite disruptive at junior school too, but grew up a bit later on - measuring kids at a certain age doesn't help people like this).

The grammar school argument smacks of targeting resources at better able and fuck the rest. Some Free Schools are the same. It's championed by parents who don't want their kids to have to mix with 'oiks', who would probably love to buy their kids out of socialising with people they consider lesser than them but can't afford the fees of private schools.

They're also missing out that adult education and proper apprenticeships with day release by committed employers was one of the reasons for post-war social mobility, that's how my Dad got on in life (via ten years at night school). That sort of thing went down the toilet when we moved to a model of transient employment with little investment in worker education, you're supposed to buy that yourself at university if you can now.
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Another of New Labours unforgivable crimes was their wholesale cuts to Higher (adult) education.
 
I love him tbf :D

Pure solid old man not-give-a-fuck offensive 'orrible old trolling bastad :p

Mehdi (Ahmed :facepalm:) keeps handing him his arse on a plate and he keeps on going :D
 
Doulgas Alexander - pathetic pointscoring on the snoopers charter - which it seems that labour supports. Dismal.
 
The added pauses for the faux drama when everyone's gagging to get a word in :p

"You're going to interrupt me? I''ll....just...talk....slower"
 
Does Mehdi spend his whole life pissed off that the person he's talking too just isn't as clever as him? He looks permanently dismissive and cross.

And since when have they had someone there to take minutes? (Women next to Mehdi)
 
I like starkey. He is very intellectual and generally argues a point the others don't get. It comes over wrong sometimes but that's because the others lower the intellectual level of the discussion.
 
Get a job, even if its zero hours because it looks like unemployment is reducing and makes us look good. Only a tory...
 
I fucking hate Tories. Loathe them. Might have to turn this off before I work myself into a screaming froth.
 
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