Excuse me why exactly has SF got education AGAIN?

steveymp

Mistral001 wrote: »

Most kids in Northern Ireland do not go to the grammar schools. Most kids (the majority) go to secondary schools. These kids are future voters and perhaps voters with memories and want something different for their children - can you blame them? It is just the majority voting or is that a bad thing. Maybe they are not "educated" enough and should not be allowed to vote.

Nothing wrong with a good secondary education, my wife had 1, I had the good fortune to have a grammar school education and I would like to have the choice for my children. My first son is hoping to start grammar school in September, my second son will probably have a good integrated secondary school education in a few years time. I as a parent am glad I have the choice;)

Snoozle

ebayqueen wrote: »

I'm no big fan of Mrs Ruane but I do think you should actually award her with a bit more respect. What is it to you if her kids go to school in Newry that is their family choice or if her husband works here or in ROI. There are many people who travel back and forward over the border everday.

I have no problem with Mrs Ruane and/or her husband living in Co Louth and working in NI or sending her children to school here. I have no problem with the fact that SF are democratically elected and therefore entitled to their seats in the assembly.

I have though got a massive problem with her choosing a grammar school education for her own children (as she is widely reported to have done) whilst seeking to deny the same opportunity to my children. That sort of hypocrisy makes my blood boil.

The system we had worked quite well - it wasn't perfect, not by a long way, but what is? Its fine to say that grammar schools are outdated, but what is that alternative? I can't understand why people think that academic selection is divisive, when the alternative (if we are to follow the way things have gone in the rest of the UK) is that places in the best schools are allocated to those whose parents can afford to buy a house near them. I know that the theory is that all the schools level out, with some of the most capable pupils, and some of the less able, and everyone gets an equal chance, but in reality this isn't how it happens.

I know the area that I live in. Even if academic selection were done away with tomorrow, I know the schools that parents, including myself, would want their children to go to. Sadly for me, the two schools closest to me would be at the bottom of most people's lists (I'm in a rural area), and this terrifies me, as moving closer to the other schools just wouldn't be an option that is available to me.

mamabuddah

would YOU want to take on an education system that has been decimated, downgraded and totally destroyed by a previous minister....there's probably no coming back from the mess its in now...."20 foot barge pole" is a phrase that spings to my mind....thank goodness my kids have all completed their education.

Pretani

lets just face it folks, N.Irelands education system is behind the times, it constantly produces better results.....we're in Socialist Euro land now and we have to teach our children crap.....don't blame Sinn Fein because they've been brain washed by this Marxist crap, blame that guy Marx.

highrisklowreturn

Pretani wrote: »

lets just face it folks, N.Irelands education system is behind the times, it constantly produces better results.....we're in Socialist Euro land now and we have to teach our children crap.....don't blame Sinn Fein because they've been brain washed by this Marxist crap, blame that guy Marx.

You said it brother.

Pretani

We're going around in circles, sometime soon we'll have a world leader who will surpass the Queen in diplomacy, the Pope in religiosity and Obama in power.......Once that happens society will revert back to square one, tribal. Then we start all over again looking for leadership.............then Jesus will come!

mamabuddah

Pretani wrote: »

We're going around in circles, sometime soon we'll have a world leader who will surpass the Queen in diplomacy, the Pope in religiosity and Obama in power.......Once that happens society will revert back to square one, tribal. Then we start all over again looking for leadership.............then Jesus will come!

21st May...repent....no wait, that date was a non-starter...

Pretani

Prophet Pretani predicts Jim Allister will force through a voluntary coalition in Stormont before 2015, Sinn Fein will become the largest party and will attempt to obliterate Unionism in de North. A new and improved British/Irish council will react by signing a new agreement which makes it impossible for any leading party both sides of the border to do away with either traditions. Sinn Fein will either have to transform themselves into the SDLP, join up with the 32 county sovereignty movement or simply fade away into the mists of time.

I'm off, see you in 2015:rotfl:

Mistral001

Pretani

Interesting thinking but my odds are on just more of the same if we allow it. There was very little change in seats from the various parties this time round.

Remember we voted for them!! (and if you did not bother to vote, then well then someone else had their say instead of you so don't complain)

badabing

mamabuddah wrote: »

21st May...repent....no wait, that date was a non-starter...

No...we are back on track again....................

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