An Evening With... Jeremy Corbyn

CLAPTON

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Specialist schools and comps so that there is more choice, every school of course teaches the national Curriculum but some specialise in certain stuff, a bit like you get at Stage Schools or Choir School at the moment.

what does that mean for the children

extra maths lessons if a maths special school (what do they do without)
more foreign language lessons in a language schoo (what do they do without?)

mrginge

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Specialist schools and comps so that there is more choice, every school of course teaches the national Curriculum but some specialise in certain stuff, a bit like you get at Stage Schools or Choir School at the moment.

Sounds like a total fragmentation of the education system. Maybe we should just privatise the lot and let schools compete for children.

westernpromise

mrginge wrote: »

I bet you're absolutely furious that we have all these disabled people swanning off to Rio on a big jolly. Despite their life disadvantages and however hard they train they are never going to be as good as Mo.
I bet you want all their funding cut and they can go live quietly out of the way so that you, mo and all the other 'elites' don't have to think about them.

No, I think it's great, but what actually is the difference between people working hard and making millions in the city and people working rather less hard and making millions doing sport? Why does Labour hate one and not the other?

And as for Marnie Mercedes Darcey Pemberton Crittle, better known as Darcey Bussell, well, not only is she disgustingly posh by by being a skilled ballerina she has clearly held others back. She too should be stamped on hard by a Labour government.

seven-day-weekend

CLAPTON wrote: »

what does that mean for the children

extra maths lessons if a maths special school (what do they do without)
more foreign language lessons in a language schoo (what do they do without?)

Something they are not very good at. Not do without it, but don't concentrate on so much.

I could have concentrated more on English and Biology instead of doing needlework and cookery, for example.

Fella

westernpromise wrote: »

No, I think it's great, but what actually is the difference between people working hard and making millions in the city and people working rather less hard and making millions doing sport? Why does Labour hate one and not the other?

Yep. Almost every Corbynista type uses the word banker as an insult/swearword & with utter contempt. And yet !!!! knows how many of them happily pay to watch prem footballers, all of whom are on salaries most bankers can only dream about.

Hard to think actually, of a more efficient distribution of wealth from the poor & the state to a handful of multi-millionaires, than premiership football.

I often think that if the world exists long enough, centuries from now people simply won't believe that in the early 21st century all the poor folk used to give most of their spare cash each week to a group of multi-millionaires for the privilege of watching them have a kick-around.

ukcarper

Fella wrote: »

Yep. Almost every Corbynista type uses the word banker as an insult/swearword & with utter contempt. And yet !!!! knows how many of them happily pay to watch prem footballers, all of whom are on salaries most bankers can only dream about.

Hard to think actually, of a more efficient distribution of wealth from the poor & the state to a handful of multi-millionaires, than premiership football.

I often think that if the world exists long enough, centuries from now people simply won't believe that in the early 21st century all the poor folk used to give most of their spare cash each week to a group of multi-millionaires for the privilege of watching them have a kick-around.

Corbyn does not represent all of the Labour Party let alone all Labour voters.

CLAPTON

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

Something they are not very good at. Not do without it, but don't concentrate on so much.

I could have concentrated more on English and Biology instead of doing needlework and cookery, for example.

how would have been a 'maths' specialist school helped you to do that that you couldn't have done in any old school?

westernpromise

ukcarper wrote: »

Corbyn does not represent all of the Labour Party.

Only about 60-odd per cent of it.

ukcarper

westernpromise wrote: »

Only about 60-odd per cent of it.

Of the party not voters and that 60% does not consist entily of Labour supporters.

mumps

CLAPTON wrote: »

how would have been a 'maths' specialist school helped you to do that that you couldn't have done in any old school?

The only comprehensive in my town is a sports specialist school. If you don't pass the 11 plus or get a place in a school in another town you go to the sports college. I honestly don't know why it is classed as a specialist school, the kids who go there don't have to have any particular ability in sport and they don't seem to do any more sport than anywhere else. The only difference I can see is they got some special funding, from Sport England I think, for a big new sports hall.

I wonder if maths schools get grants from Maths England for ........... I'm not sure what they'd get, protractors?