Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,004
Deal Sec even worse than Sheppy for size of skool innit?
Quote - Wouldn't send my dog for training there! (A Teecher)
https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/kent-schools-most-pupils-being-9431561"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,004
I am in Canterbury. It is graduation day. Everyone is in mortar boards and gowns.
It looks like Hogwarts except in S E Asia.
Just saying.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Matey
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
- Posts: 178
Captain Haddock wrote:I am in Canterbury. It is graduation day. Everyone is in mortar boards and gowns.
It looks like Hogwarts except in S E Asia.
Just saying.
What of it?
Life without a dog is like a salad without lettuce.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,004
Looking at the schools (s ic) of local tattooed land-whales cluttering up the 'shopping' centre, one suspects Weber's 'protestant work ethic' was of a different time.
As one of my ex pupils said to me only last week
"Would you like fries with that?"
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,838
The good Captain is just doing his best to keep the forum going.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,004
Yup. My only outlet since I've been barred both from our new MP's Twitter account AND Deal Wetherspoons!
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,071
YES we need to keep it going but I really have nothing to talk about.
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,298
Captain Haddock wrote:Yup. My only outlet since I've been barred both from our new MP's Twitter account AND Deal Wetherspoons!
You've been barred from Deal Spoons? How did you manage that?
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,004
Neil Moors wrote:You've been barred from Deal Spoons? How did you manage that?
'Offending public decency'?
Why not ask them ? - and see what they are making up this time.
I'd be amused to know.
01304 382930
The Sir Norman Wisdom - JD Wetherspoon
Having found their customer services fairly useless I fortunately have the email address of John Hutson so I suppose that's the next move?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,004
Sandwich Tech now:-
A head teacher has dismissed claims pupils are not "prepared for life in modern Britain" following a damning Ofsted report which said youngsters feel "bullied" and "unsafe".
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sandwich/news/its-not-fair-head-hits-back-as-school-plagued-by-issues-312560/
Which groups of school-leavers are most likely to go to university? Percentage progressing to higher education by 19:
Asian female (not FSM*) 77
Black female (not FSM) 75
Asian male (not FSM) 64
Asian female (FSM) 64
Black female (FSM) 61
Black male (not FSM) 58
White female (not FSM) 52
Asian male (FSM) 48
Black male (FSM) 42
White male (not FSM) 38
White female (FSM) 24
White male (FSM) 15
* free school meals Source: DfE
Why are the white working class, especially in 'coastal communities' (sic) , so bloody thick ?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,071
That again and not for the first time your wording is wrong to say anyone is thick is very wrong some are better then others at some subjects but others will find they can do better at more manual subjects. But to say any person is thick is wrong very wrong..
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 437
Is ‘intellectually challenged’ a better phrase?
Unfortunately there’s no reasonable expectation that because someone finds academic work difficult they will be good with manual tasks. Learning a trade - becoming a plumber, electrician, plasterer etc, etc requires an ability to learn and retain basic skills of reading, writing and maths. Nearly every job, hairdressing, gardening (horticulture) , car mechanics now require far more skills. Every child has opportunities at school, not every child takes advantage of what is on offer. Some children are disadvantaged at the outset and this is compounded when they come from a background where parents and family members have never worked. A work ethic is acquired from having good role models and expectations.
Having been in education for over 40 years I have experienced a lot of challenging pupils and families. We will always have a lot of people who will not engage with education or work.
I do believe that there should be an expectation that those who can, are actively challenged to do work in the community when in receipt of benefits.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Well put Arthur.
A lot of children and or parents do not want or understand the need for a good education which they feel is geared towards university. Those who are not academic minded and want to learn a skill or trade should not be made to feel they are 'useless' and almost ignored by some educationalists
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,030
Is it any surprise that so many young people nowadays feel 'bullied' or 'unsafe' when the rewards for feeling 'bullied' or 'unsafe' have never been greater?
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Matey- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
- Posts: 178
Weird Granny Slater wrote:Is it any surprise that so many young people nowadays feel 'bullied' or 'unsafe' when the rewards for feeling 'bullied' or 'unsafe' have never been greater?
I think you’re right there, there is a lot of pressure on them these days, things are very different. Things that we oldies are unfamiliar with, but drugs play a part I’m sure together with peer pressure.
Life without a dog is like a salad without lettuce.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,030
Actually, my observation was more along the lines of 'you get more of what you subsidise, less of what you tax' applied to the cultural sphere.
Victimhood generates considerable social credit, sympathy, outrage, media attention, lobbying jobs and government legislation.
The numbers declaring themselves 'bullied' or 'unsafe' will increase or decrease according to whether the social benefits are positive or negative.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,004
Extraordinarily English schools have today been ranked the best in the world outside East Asia in maths and science.
Here:-
https://timss2023.org/results/
The four-yearly Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study has found English Year 9s coming 5th in the world in science and 6th in maths.
English schools have improved dramatically over the last 14 years and are now the best in Europe by most international benchmarks.
Obviously, the Education Secretary keeps denying the facts so she can reverse the policies that have made English schools great.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,004
It would seem that everyone graduating at the University of Glasgow in 'proper' subjects is now Chinese! Nice to know we're educationg one of our main competitors!
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,030
Yes, I remember Paul Reinhold Eizenhöfer and Christoforos Chrysaphis from my days in Peking. Very promising Chinamen.
Also - surely multiple Chinese returning home with TESOL qualifications = a WIN for English?
(Given that we don't manufacture anything anymore, I fail to see exactly what it is that we are competitive in? Call centres?)
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,071
NOT TRUE,
