Dianne abbott has been vilified and will never achieve major office due to her decision
Some parents go for a nice happy school where everyone licks the same window
Others aim for academic excellence there's more thasn one definition of best
A New Apartheid? Page 5
Quote: Pingl @ September 21 2012, 12:46 PM BST, whatever they're called are the cause of the problem. and I'm afraid prejudice breeds prejudice
Nicely done. 
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ September 21 2012, 12:20 PM BSTI really don't know why they bother - they should just give every kid an 'A' grade, it doesn't make a jot of difference to the job market or number of kids now applying for university.
Tell that to my daughter working diligently at the mounds of homework...there is such a thing as kids wanting to do well and having pride in their work, it does make a difference, though I would fooking ban homework if I was in charge.
Quote: sootyj @ September 21 2012, 12:52 PM BSTOthers aim for academic excellence there's more thasn one definition of best
You would think so, but again, based on the number of angry parents who can't get there kids all into the same first choice school - ie. the most local white one - then I'm afraid the evidence provides a different conclusion.
I mean statistically the impoverished family are more likely to be happy with the one, where everyone feels valued all the teachers smile. And you don't get excluded for taking a shit on the school cormorant.
The thrusting white, flight types want the school with a 134% GCSE A*** pass rate. And you get shot for taking a shit on the school cormorant.
Not to mention some parents just don't want their kids to be smarter and more succesful than themselves.
Quote: Shandonbelle @ September 21 2012, 12:56 PM BSTTell that to my daughter working diligently at the mounds of homework...there is such a thing as kids wanting to do well and having pride in their work, it does make a difference, though I would fooking ban homework if I was in charge.
I think, as you are her mother, it really is your duty to tell her that there isn't much of a future and studying is for nerds. 
Of course, I'm from the generation when we had to do proper 'O' and 'A' Levels and bloody difficult they were to boot. And we didn't have a wealth of information instantly accessible from an Internet.
(P.S. I hope your daughter does very well with her studies)
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ September 21 2012, 1:01 PM BSTI think, as you are her mother, it really is your duty to tell her that there isn't much of a future and studying is for nerds.
Of course, I'm from the generation when we had to do proper 'O' and 'A' Levels and bloody difficult they were to boot. Not to mention the huge cost in pile ointment and breath fresheners
State shold ahve paid for them.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ September 21 2012, 1:01 PM BSTI think, as you are her mother, it really is your duty to tell her that there isn't much of a future and studying is for nerds.
Poo, I thought that was one less messy job for me to do
though I would fooking ban homework if I was in charge.[/quote]
Please, Please, Please make this happen. I can't make head nor tail of my daughters homework. She had to create a title page for 'What is History?', surely a title page is a sheet of paper with 'What is History?' written on it. Oh no, you have to draw pictures, put in speech bubbles, have it signed by Simon Scharma and cleared by the Oxford exam board of wasting my bloody time.
The kids homework is designed to make us feel even more inadequate...I say we stage a dirty protest.
My daughters came home and said they had to write a 'blurb' ?
Turns out it was a precis.
FFS!
Quote: Pingl @ September 21 2012, 1:05 PM BSTdaughters homework. She had to create a title page for 'What is History?', surely a title page is a sheet of paper with 'What is History?' written on it. Oh no, you have to draw pictures, put in speech bubbles, have it signed by Simon Scharma and cleared by the Oxford exam board of wasting my bloody time.
A load of flannel, it really gets my goat.
I had the meaning of life question from my nine year old a while ago, he said 'why are we here? we eat stuff and we do stuff and then we die'
Be worried? 
Quote: Shandonbelle @ September 21 2012, 1:24 PM BSTA load of flannel, it really gets my goat.
I had the meaning of life question from my nine year old a while ago, he said 'why are we here? we eat stuff and we do stuff and then we die'
Be worried?
I know, this is my fourth and I still can't get the hang of these teaching methods. Why do they need homework, if your a builder do you have to go home and build an extension. Or does an estate agent have to be an irritating greedy bastard twenty four seven, bad example. Why can't they finish school and finish, if they can't teach them properly in the perscribed hours then they're crap at their jobs.
Quote: Lazzard @ September 21 2012, 1:17 PM BSTMy daughters came home and said they had to write a 'blurb' ?
Mine too, yesterday. You're not her mother, are you?
Quote: Nogget @ September 21 2012, 2:42 PM BSTMine too, yesterday. You're not her mother, are you?
Does she have a beard and glasses?