Over my dead body. Friends! To the barricades!
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Over my dead body. Friends! To the barricades!
The lefty bedwetters are also looking to blame Brexit on Thomas Cook collapse, rather than the fact they entirely outdated business model and have been run appallingly for the past 10 years
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.
Dunno what the research says, but it seems logical to assume that chucking a load of kids into a state school who would otherwise have gone to private school will raise the standards of the state school :shrug:
I'd definitely be chuffed to bits if my kids' school suddenly had an influx of the type of kids who get sent to private school.
I think it was John McDonnell on the radio this morning who would not answer the question about the knock on effect of house prices (and other economic impacts) if this educational utopia was realised. All he would say was "isn't it better if all schools are excellent"
Quite clearly it is targetting Eton (#AbolishEton) because of Tory prime ministers and other aristocrati types whilst not considering the thousands of other private schools where parents scrimp and save to give their kids a better education than the local comp.
Still, at least we can look forward to more public sector strikes...
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.
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.
Yes, that's true. Despite having sent my son to precisely the sort of school they are targeting, I actually have sympathy for the idea that they should be abolished. The state school system in Surrey is much worse than in Kent or Essex because the proliferation of private schools here means the state school system is deprived of many of its best students. Which then makes parents like me even more likely to send our children to private schools.
Would have been nice to save the £££ it cost me too. :-(
Well they used to fulfil the charitable aspect of their status by providing far more assisted places to students. Three guesses which party abolished that in 1997.
What with that and destroying grammar schools, it's almost like Labour just want to keep poor people poor, isn't it?
My main school head-master was a former England rugby captain. Most boring cünt on the planet. I'd have thought rugby boys would be entertaining - one of our prep school masters had some U21 caps, which he showed us, and he was a laugh.
But the ex-captain was so dull it was unbelievable. Still, they've let in girls now and changed the motto so fück 'em.
I demanded to leave public school after o-levels and went to Reigate 6th form college. It was ace. In history, there were only 7 of us at the start and just 4 by upper 6th. As the 3 girls were quite quiet, I basically got 1-to-1 tuition, as I did for my two S-levels.
And Reigate's in Surrey. I think.
I chose to stay in state school in Surrey, hindsight tells me that was ****ing dumb and my parents should never have given me the choice!!
That said, my recent inheritance would have been quite so substantial, so every cloud and all that
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