howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#1
Dover doesn't get mentioned possibly because of two highly successful Grammar schools.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-34647827Jan Higgins
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#2
I think the following is very true regardless of the area.
"Tanya Ovenden-Hope from Plymouth University, who has studied coastal academies, identifies an inter-generational lack of engagement. Parents who themselves had a poor experience of education have low levels of expectation that it will offer much more to their own children"
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#3
A different and more PC way to express what Bob Frost said about the school meals issue.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#4
Disagree Peter, Bob said it was a genetic thing whilst the article refers to a generational problem. My parents weren't stupid but left school with nothing so they could hardly help me with the homework that I never did, consequently I left school without a qualification too.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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#5
For a so called educated man Bob has a way with words that have the capacity to make people cringe, which proves a formal so called good education is not all it purports to be.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#6
He does it deliberately in order to provoke debate and poke the PC brigade in the eye.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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#7
I think he just makes a fool of himself.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#8
He is the tories' court jester aka the local fool in the classical sense.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson