I’ve just googled. Apparently there are 34 in the UK. Well I never.I don't know. I never thought to ask anyone, only knew a couple and wasn't matey with any really
I’ve just googled. Apparently there are 34 in the UK. Well I never.I don't know. I never thought to ask anyone, only knew a couple and wasn't matey with any really
Kent, Surrey, Berks and Bucks I believe all have state grammar schools. Also the Wirral as my Mum and Uncle went to one. I think there’s some down here in Devon too but I must admit I’m not sure.Loads of grammar schools in SE England (well, Kent AFAIK) are not private
They have grammar schools where my brother lives in Kent, a town which has recently seen a big influx of Londoners moving in to start families. As far as I can tell, the Londoner's kids go to the grammar school, and the Kent natives go to the dogshit comp. I don't think it's a great model of education tbh.It’s a very expensive grammar school! https://www.bradfordgrammar.com/
Doing away with state grammar schools was such a mistake.
It's appalling.What do you teachers make of that report about sexual harassment being so rife at school that pupils don't bother reporting it anymore? What can be done about that?
It's appalling.
The answer I suppose is education - of staff and students alike.
Christ if you ever wanted an example of why state education is a bad idea.
...You just can’t make sweeping statements like that without sounding ignorant.
As a tangent, was wading through some PISA and OECD data the other day and as far they're concerned Academies/Free Schools are Private Schools. They make a distinction between State Schools, Private Schools largely funded by the State and Private Schools largely funded privately.You've misread "not comprehensive" as "private" there Eids
As a tangent, was wading through some PISA and OECD data the other day and as far they're concerned Academies/Free Schools are Private Schools. They make a distinction between State Schools, Private Schools largely funded by the State and Private Schools largely funded privately.
Makes sense.
Last time Labour were in Government they really, really accelerated the privatisation of education.I wonder what will happen once we have a new government to education. Will we see the reversal of the privatisation of education? All comprehensives? Private schools still existing? A triparttite system of grammar schools for some and hellholes for others? Will be interesting.
Knowing Kent well, I can well imagine this does happen with the DFL children/locals.They have grammar schools where my brother lives in Kent, a town which has recently seen a big influx of Londoners moving in to start families. As far as I can tell, the Londoner's kids go to the grammar school, and the Kent natives go to the dogshit comp. I don't think it's a great model of education tbh.
Last time Labour were in Government they really, really accelerated the privatisation of educ
Last time Labour were in Government they really, really accelerated the privatisation of educatio
Indeed. It was socialism in the same way that the Pope is a Protestant.Last time Labour were in Government they really, really accelerated the privatisation of education.
There were three grades of school back then, secondary moderns for the Great Unwashed (including my brother and sisters), grammars for those peons that showed some signs of academic ability by the age of 11 (moi) and fee paying schools for those kids whose parents could afford it (academic ability optional). The secondary moderns churned out fodder for the factories and farms, grammars were for people who would go to Uni and learn how to do clever stuff and private schools (much as they do now) would prepare their pupils for life at the top of the tree. It didn't always work that way, I didn't go to Uni but one of my sisters did (Uni's were free back then and you got a grant to boot)Oh is that what a ‘secondary modern’ was.
Always worth remembering that one of the first moves made by the Blue/Yellow tory coalition back in 2010 was Gove/Cummings' rapid academisation that involved the creation of registered companies with 3 senior management becoming directors of their school company.As a tangent, was wading through some PISA and OECD data the other day and as far they're concerned Academies/Free Schools are Private Schools. They make a distinction between State Schools, Private Schools largely funded by the State and Private Schools largely funded privately.
Makes sense.
The fact that there are problems with state education, including the specific one which started this thread, is not a justification for anyone to assert that state education is, overall, a bad idea, which was the assertion that you made in the post I quoted.andysays you think you’ve been clever doing that but you haven’t, because my initial statement isn’t sweeping. It’s a very specific example of an aspect of letting the State determine what our children are taught. I was going to write not much danger given our centrist, liberal state then I remembered colonialism and I’m not so sure.
Other less dangerous but still negative points are rigid national curriculum, lack of flexibility and individuality for what and how teachers teach in an attempt to standardise at all costs, administrative burden (I can still see the ridiculous forms and ‘evidence’ my childminder had to gather to ‘prove’ stuff to ofsted ), and using ridiculous grading/flight path predictive grades that mean fuck all to individual kids and are all about the school.
The main benefit of it is of course that all kids get some kind of education. And I guess that the extremes are tempered (both of ideology and shitness). I’d like to explore a system where there was a greater variety of different schools and educational experience though. My eldest for example would of really enjoyed and benefitted from a much more vocational education, my youngest is more academic and has been let down by predictions made at year 6. They’ve both been to a school in a deprived bit of Leeds that has significant social problems and acts as a food bank.
OK teachers another one: should skirts be banned in schools?
School skirts ban: St Martin's in Caerphilly changes uniform
The move follows "frequent" complaints skirts are "far too revealing", the head teacher says.www.bbc.co.uk
Of course not. Kids should instead be able to wear what they want without adults making it a sex thing.
What about the kids making it a 'sex thing' and they will because teenagers are god awful creatures that will push boundaries just for the hell of it.Of course not. Kids should instead be able to wear what they want without adults making it a sex thing.