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leanderman said:
Council.

Some schools already operate it: Kingsdale in Dulwich and Trinity Academy in Brixton.

But I'd do it on the basis that kids have an equal chance of entering any one of their five nearest schools.

And they could still choose their favourite if not oversubscribed.

It would break this rich-poor ghettoisation overnight.
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By coincidence this was in the news today...............http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-26354648
 
leanderman said:
Council.

Some schools already operate it: Kingsdale in Dulwich and Trinity Academy in Brixton.

But I'd do it on the basis that kids have an equal chance of entering any one of their five nearest schools.

And they could still choose their favourite if not oversubscribed.

It would break this rich-poor ghettoisation overnight.
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Don't forget, it is in families which have one parent whose wages are sufficient for the whole family or where there is multiple, or even single, car ownership that going to the fifth nearest school is easiest.

Put both parents to work and introduce two bus journeys each way to get kids to and from school, at a cost of £19.50 per week for a bus pass for the adult, while walking past the school next door to make your journey to the fifth nearest school. Then tell me if a five school lottery is a good idea.
 
Smick said:
Don't forget, it is in families which have one parent whose wages are sufficient for the whole family or where there is multiple, or even single, car ownership that going to the fifth nearest school is easiest.

Put both parents to work and introduce two bus journeys each way to get kids to and from school, at a cost of £19.50 per week for a bus pass for the adult, while walking past the school next door to make your journey to the fifth nearest school. Then tell me if a five school lottery is a good idea.
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I still think it is. Or ghettoisation. As now.

And I think secondary-age kids get on buses on their own.
 
Oh, I was talking about primary, but looking back to where you suggested lotteries, I can see that it is in reply to a post about secondary schools.
 
Latest net migration figures - a major rise from 150,000 to 212,000 a year - suggest to me that the pressure on housing is going to get worse and worse.

Most of the influx will be to London, which is struggling to build enough homes as it is.
 
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Just got some insight into who is buying these places from art school niece, who lives round corner.

A year ago, father of art school niece's pal tried to buy this pal and pal's brother (both late-ish 20s) a house by Sudbourne for something like £650,000.

Deal fell through. They tried again three months ago, even though price now £900,000+.

Collapsed again - but are now buying in Loughborough Junction.

(Family from Beckenham, father an accountant, business owner)
 
Interesting book review by Nick Cohen (not one of my favourite journalists);

All That Is Solid review – Danny Dorling's brilliant study of Britain's housing disaster.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/02/all-that-is-solid-review-house-prices-danny-dorling

The coalition has taken John Stuart Mill's criticism that landlords "grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising", and treated it as a compliment. It gives the 2% of the population that make up the landlord interest tens of billions of pounds of public money in the form of housing benefit and guarantees for speculative building. As for the increasingly privatised world of social housing, we are told that it is the home for scroungers.

One third of the council homes sold to tenants by Margaret Thatcher are now owned by buy-to-let landlords.
 
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Dexter Deadwood said:
Interesting book review by Nick Cohen (not one of my favourite journalists);

All That Is Solid review – Danny Dorling's brilliant study of Britain's housing disaster.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/02/all-that-is-solid-review-house-prices-danny-dorling



One third of the council homes sold to tenants by Margaret Thatcher are now owned by buy-to-let landlords.
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Nick Cohen's generally pretty good. Although, some times, his stuff is very poorly written.

Such as this: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/nick-c...silenced-one-of-the-best-officers-in-britain/
 
Dexter Deadwood said:
Middle class people.
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Horrendous quality. I live nearby and saw the Hayter Road flat when the whole house was first converted - tiny and botched, shortly after, Lambeth Council stopped planning permission for over developed property but Govt has compelled local councils to be more favourable now. Builder called Baccus (yes really) caused subsidence to next door and this building started falling apart almost immediately.
 
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Do they not do school lotteries in Brighton?

ETA - they do. I haven't read enough to know whether a good thing or bad thing, but in theory it's got to stop some of the postcode buying up bullshit surely.
 
colacubes said:
Do they not do school lotteries in Brighton?

ETA - they do. I haven't read enough to know whether a good thing or bad thing, but in theory it's got to stop some of the postcode buying up bullshit surely.
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Colleague doubts value of lottery - and his kids are at secondary - but Brighton may be too small for a true reading.
 
The gentrification concerns so often raised here have uncanny parallels in San Francisco.

At least according to Rebecca Solnit In the London Review of Books ('Go back to Palo Alto', Feb 20).

She looks at how the Silicon Valley goldrush has caused a housing crisis for the have-nots. Brilliant stuff.
 
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