tsubaki
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It is, though I am not sure what the government expects to learn from paying their mates more to provide education than they pay councils and LEAs to do it.
That their mates have more money than before, perhaps?
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It is, though I am not sure what the government expects to learn from paying their mates more to provide education than they pay councils and LEAs to do it.
That their mates have more money than before, perhaps?
bring the ghost on
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So the unlucky ones who ended up with awful educations in needlessly poor schools can at least look back and say - I was part of an experiment.
It's funny how the plummeting ranking in the PISA league tables is brushed off as seemingly irrelevant though, wouldn't you say?
Seanjd
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Are you being picky for the sake of it, or seriously suggesting that free schools have been a success? Because it's quite clear that they have been, in the whole, an absolute farcical failure.
So you've been teaching the exact same way for your entire career?
I'm trying to understand what makes a good school different from a poor one. Presumably there are some free schools that do well, and some that don't, just as there are undoubtedly good/bad in the state system. If there is such variance, then that alone seems to suggest that there is more to being a good/bad school than simply whether it's run by the state or not.
tsubaki
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Bruce - there is a very good argument to be made that the results are getting worse because of misguided experiments.
British secondary education policy was relatively stable up until 1997 - its since then that we have had Academies, Free Schools, deskilled teachers, increased PFI spending, gradually weakened LEAs, significant changes to the National Curriculum and then tertiary changes like tuition fees and the removal of the maintenance grant which have probably had some kind of negative effect as well.
As you have pointed out, the results are worse and we spend much more to get them.
Clint Planet
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I don't think that analogy holds up at all.
Amazing how good Corbyn looks when he is actually given (a bit more) unspun time on TV to present his/Labours policies.
Makes me wonder if the whole "Corbyn is crap, Corbyn is inept" belief among much of the population is a mass brainwashing and if everyone could just clear their brain of preconceptions regarding him they may find they agree with much of what he says and that they think he's quite good.
Makes me wonder if the whole "Corbyn is crap, Corbyn is inept" belief among much of the population is a mass brainwashing and if everyone could just clear their brain of preconceptions regarding him they may find they agree with much of what he says and that they think he's quite good.
roydo
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So folk who dont agree with him are brainwashed?
I give the British electorate, well most, more credit than that.
John23
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I'm not going to comment on that as it wasn't the main thrust of my post (not criticising your response to me though).
Follow my direction for a minute though. Clear your mind. Imagine you have never heard of Corbyn (or anyone in fact) and this bloke (Corbyn) just crops up now on your TV as he has done in the last few days, saying what he says?
Would you think he was inept, rubbish, hopeless etc or is it possible you would like what he says and how he comes over?
I love John Crace's stuff. Always very funny!
roydo
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Well before he was elected leader, I hadnt heard of him.
But he does come across ok. Think he is a principled bloke, but detail is somewhat light. He has spent his life raging against the machine, and I find his utter lack of life experience a bit unnerving.
Think the same of most MPs if I am honest.
Just watched it. She was terrible and he didn't pull his punches. She is an absolute opportunist and is well out of her depth.
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