Those dirty commies want to steal my school.

[redgunamo]

I was gonna say, weren't there similar headlines about Thomas Cook a few years back?

The lefty bedwetters are also looking to blame Brexit on Thomas Cook collapse, rather than the fact they entirely outdated business model and have been run appallingly for the past 10 years

[Burney]

I was gonna say, weren't there similar headlines about Thomas Cook a few years back?

Apparently, the lefties think we should spend millions ferrying these awful people home because as emptors they chose to ignore a caveat.

Fúck 'em imo. Let 'em rot. Apart from anything else, I suspect most of them are probably rather common.

[PSRB]

I was gonna say, weren't there similar headlines about Thomas Cook a few years back?

Chap left our advertising agency a couple of months ago to work for Thomas Cook, we all said he was mad

[Pokster]

They never explain how destroying excellent schools will make all the other schools better, do they? They just persist in this mad idea that levelling everything downwards will somehow improve what's left because it just will. They never acknowledge that the removal of privileged access to quality does not mean that that quality is spread more widely. It never has in history because that's not how the supply of goods and services works.

It's purely envy, spite and magical thinking - the equivalent of thinking that closing down Michelin-starred restaurants will somehow make Gregg's food better.

And what's wrong with Greggs

[Burney]

And what's wrong with Greggs

The customers, mostly.

[Monty92]

Well, no, since the comprehensive experiment has shown that, without strict segregation and streaming (which Labour also opposes), everyone goes at the speed of the slowest, with the best dragged down by the worst.

Besides which, do you imagine the wealthiest people in the country wouldn't immediately game the system to ensure their kids retained an advantage? All this would mean is that areas near good schools would see massive demand for property (imagine now, but 100 times worse) that forced even the relatively comfortable middle classes out of the area. Those middle classes would then sell their houses and move to other areas, forcing out those below them on the socio-economic ladder. You would end up with a tiered system by default and those at the bottom would be worse off than ever.

At the end of the day, you can't buck the market. Where there is demand, there will be supply - by whatever means. This is something socialists have never, ever learned because they don't want to.

Sure, although educational attainment isn't everything. It's also about the peer group they're exposed to.

You'll be hard-pressed to convince me that my kids wouldn't benefit from a few less Shannons and Billy Bob Joes and a few more Clementines and Jacobs.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

Sure, although educational attainment isn't everything. It's also about the peer group they're exposed to.

You'll be hard-pressed to convince me that my kids wouldn't benefit from a few less Shannons and Billy Bob Joes and a few more Clementines and Jacobs.

No m .. your kids would just get the shít beaten out of them. One can only be rude and disparaging to chavs from the safety of a keyboard. Do it for real and they tend to lash out.

[Burney]

Sure, although educational attainment isn't everything. It's also about the peer group they're exposed to.

You'll be hard-pressed to convince me that my kids wouldn't benefit from a few less Shannons and Billy Bob Joes and a few more Clementines and Jacobs.

That's not what happens in schools, though. If we assume a broad social mix, the kids with the most cachet would be the harder (ie generally poorer) kids. In order not to get their heads kicked in, the posher kids would tone it down to sound and act more like the scum. Result? Everyone ends up sounding and acting like Shannon and Billy Bob Joe.

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

. Apart from anything else, I suspect most of them are probably rather common.

And they are the scum you entered an unholy alliance with to get your leave vote. If they ain't back in time for the GE The Libs will win and just take us straight back into the EU

[IUFG]

The customers, mostly.

Have you never purchased their sausage rolls, b?
or the ambrosia that is a steak bake?