Both my sons, and all our foster children, went to the local state school. The middle school in our village was absolute tripe, but I didn’t realise it at the time … being a single parent. Only one of my sons went to said local middle school, I would like to blame them for all the ills but in fact they were mainly responsible for demotivating that child WRT schooling. Both boys went to the upper school (which at the time also ran 6th form education). One son is now a Professor at a Uni, the other is a very competent and hardworking technician … who has given me two lovely grandchildren.
One foster child has a degree ( 16-years hard labour on our part !! knock me down with a feather ) and I therefore submit that the educational outcome of any child is largely down to the effort, determination and motivational example of parents … coupled with the child’s inherited gene-set. I also believe that the educational basis of parents has a significant influence … and hence most of the lower echelons are trapped in their lot because they have no idea how to improve it.
I would have paid for my sons to attend private (day) school, but I can’t afford it.
It is not so much the academic side, it is the whole culture of not being subliminally brainwashed, of having a positive can do attitude, of doing your best, of winning. It is the confidence these kids have, that they can achieve whatever they set their minds on. Winners are recognised and rewarded publicly, something that could never happen in a Marxist utopia, where they go to great lengths to hide whatever talent there may be in their race to the bottom, that common denominator. It is constant, day in day out, in every shape and form. There is no escape, no matter what you instill at home. It is a never ending battle. Your kids spend more of their waking life at school during term time. Something like 60% of our Olympians were privately educated? That is a terrible statistic because it shows how much talent out there has gone to waste. If we sort out the attitude of our education system, we could rule the world again!
Ex I think your experience and outcome with state education is mostly the exception and not the norm, sadly and obviously time has marched on to even larger disparity since your experience IMO.
In general I agree with everything you wrote.
I didn’t know that about the Olympians … !!
I expect to see you standing for MP !
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This part …
One foster child has a degree
…only happened within the last 2 ~ 3 years. Hence my statement concerning parental example, a ‘can-do’ attitude as Jen put it. This young person came to us at age 8 having missed 50% of schooling due to the parents being disinterested in getting out of bed to take their children to school. A considerable effort was expended by a number of people to rectify the situation, including of course some effort by the young person.
However, there is a massive difference in motivation between the achievers and everyone else.
I have had years of libtard /Marxist shit rammed in my face day in, day out. It is Animal Farm at its finest, the control, the hypocrisy and treating you as if you were an idiot. There was a list of what the children could bring in for a snack and it had to be “healthy.” It had to be fruit or veg or a piece of unprocessed cheese. Chocolate was certainly not allowed. Then for lunch the children would be served really dire overcooked crap, such as burnt cheap sausages, processed meats and lots of fats and sugar. Of course there was chocolate cake. When the chocolate issue was pointed out, the headmistress wrote, “there is actually no chocolate in our chocolate cake.” So what then, fat, sugar, colouring and chemicals?
I found leaving the system overwhelming. Suddenly I wasn’t this right wing bigot. We extol traditional British values and we fly the Union Jack. And I just found out the headmaster is a Thatcher fan from the latest newsletter.
The Summer spreads before us now, providing plentiful opportunities for rest, enjoyment and educational experiences. Learning certainly should not end at the conclusion of a school term and I am sure that you will carve out openings over the coming weeks to visit the odd exhibition, museum, historical monument, musical or theatrical performance. Closer to home, ‘Netflix’ does not have to mean a box set of ‘Love Island’s’ best moments (rather thin, I would imagine) but could mean a brilliant set of documentaries (recent personal favourite, ‘Thatcher: A very British Revolution’).
I think you and Stu are correct. Not far away is Luton, the arsehole of Bedfordshire.
I heard that one of the schools there insists that white ‘christian’ females wear the school uniform … a green full-length smock and head scarf.
I may have mentioned this before, but like Tommy R, Luton was my home town.
I went to primary and secondary schools there and I don’t remember even one pupil at any of those schools who wasn’t white British.
Now you’d be lucky to find one in any of my old schools.
So sad!
Again Ex credit to you but I still think your case is the exception. Schools are ran by the PC brigade who spend so much time focusing on bringing in "tins of beans for refugee days " and other such crap in fact anything but the three R’s.
I want to say it here first. I feel quite uneasy about the leadership voting process. The ballot paper had no distinguishable mark or serial number or anything identifiable. I would have much preferred to have done it online as any potential funny business could be more easily traced. Anyhow, they were posted back by guaranteed next day delivery.
All Boris promised was Brexit by Halloween. Hunt promised the earth including cutting Corporation tax to 12.5%. What’s this with Remainers who are full of shit… déjà vu?
I can understand a unique mark being on each legitimate, such as an identical hologram or fading color water marks as those printed on some bank checks…but a serial number making the ballot uniquely identifiable would identify the voter to which the ballot was mailed. This would possibly intrude on voter privacy.
Y’all do have secret ballot elections, do you not?
