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matt_himself Flag Matataland 10 Mar 15 12.59pm Send a Private Message to matt_himself Add matt_himself as a friend

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What is depressing is teaching and edumacation being used as a political football.


Hypocrite.

Both left and right, yourself too as 'Divisional Union Secretary' or whatever self important tag you give yourself, use education as political football.

Your posts on here reek of it and are ideologically driven.


So I'm being accused of having an ideology. I call it opinion and conviction.
Once again, you are not debating about the subject, but the poster. Good work.

And once again you are missing the point.

You condemn the Tories for supposedly using education as an ideological football when you yourself do the same.

I am pointing this out from your previous post.

Hypocrite.


No I am defending my fellow teachers and parents from the marketisation of education.


Your 'facts' are spurious and your motives dubious.

I don't believe that you have anyone's interests in mind other than teachers, by which you are trying to secure higher pay, Lower workloads, gold plated pensions and a culture where teachers aren't questionned at all about their working practices or whether they are any good.

You hide this behind a nonsensical political ideology.

That's what's coming across.


Bulls***

No it's not. That's what's coming across.

 


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[Link]

This details transference of property and the money academy chains are making through selling off 'excess' land for profit.


I said "credible" and "unbiased". Try again.

But even the link says August 2012, so it's steam rolling ahead clearly....

Which of the facts in the article are wrong?

Are any articles unbiased?

Using that logic this must be just as valid. It even uses evidence rather than mostly citing other blog posts written by the same person.

[Link]

I would like to see how free schools do in comparison to non-free schools when the next set of results come out (later this year I think); whether they have a demographic advantage (currently the evidence seems to says no, but there is only a limited sample size); and whether they have been set up in areas of need (again the evidence is too limited to draw full conclusions, but suggests they have been). Once more data is available I think it will be reasonable to judge.

On the other side, I would like to see actual evidence that having a teacher training certificate makes someone a better teacher, and whether comprehensive schools actually did better for their pupils' education than the old system of grammar and technical schooling. Which at least let students excel in an area of aptitude rather than trying to pretend they were all essentially the same. Something that is patently silly.

 


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Lyons550 Flag Shirley 10 Mar 15 1.18pm Send a Private Message to Lyons550 Add Lyons550 as a friend

Quote nickgusset at 01 Feb 2015 11.22am

Under Tory cund plans, if all students do not know their times tables on leaving primary school for 2 years in a row, a school can be forced into being an academy. How stupid! Whilst I acknowledge that rapid recall of multiplication facts is a good thing, there is no way on God's earth that all children are capable of learning them.
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Surely that depends on the quality of the teachers?

 


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Stuk Flag Top half 10 Mar 15 1.28pm Send a Private Message to Stuk Add Stuk as a friend

Quote nickgusset at 10 Mar 2015 12.49pm

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Quote nickgusset at 10 Mar 2015 12.35pm

[Link]

This details transference of property and the money academy chains are making through selling off 'excess' land for profit.


I said "credible" and "unbiased". Try again.

But even the link says August 2012, so it's steam rolling ahead clearly....

Which of the facts in the article are wrong?

Are any articles unbiased?

It's not an article, it's a blog (with an angle). I couldn't tell you anything about it what is right or wrong with it because i'm not reading it.

Find a credible news source and yes, unbiased ones do exist.

 


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susmik Flag PLYMOUTH -But Made in Old Coulsdon... 10 Mar 15 1.46pm Send a Private Message to susmik Add susmik as a friend

Quote nickgusset at 09 Mar 2015 11.44pm

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£1billion worth of public assets transferred to private hands.
No wonder Morgan and Hunt are pushing them through.


That was really old news Nick and has been recycled many times since!

 


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Quote nickgusset at 01 Feb 2015 11.22am

Under Tory cund plans, if all students do not know their times tables on leaving primary school for 2 years in a row, a school can be forced into being an academy. How stupid! Whilst I acknowledge that rapid recall of multiplication facts is a good thing, there is no way on God's earth that all children are capable of learning them.
[Link]


Surely that depends on the quality of the teachers?

Since the teachers have been "tested" for want of a better word on their personal abilities at teaching, many have gone sick with stress after getting bad marks.
In my daughters school where she is a teacher one third have gone sick with stress and wont get back to work leaving the other teachers to carry on regardless. This would prove a point to me that some teachers are not up to doing their jobs which again proves to me that all kids don't have a good chance as some of the others......perhaps that is why some kids don't know their tables when they leave primary???

 


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Quote nickgusset at 01 Feb 2015 11.22am

Under Tory cund plans, if all students do not know their times tables on leaving primary school for 2 years in a row, a school can be forced into being an academy. How stupid! Whilst I acknowledge that rapid recall of multiplication facts is a good thing, there is no way on God's earth that all children are capable of learning them.
[Link]


Surely that depends on the quality of the teachers?

Since the teachers have been "tested" for want of a better word on their personal abilities at teaching, many have gone sick with stress after getting bad marks.
In my daughters school where she is a teacher one third have gone sick with stress and wont get back to work leaving the other teachers to carry on regardless. This would prove a point to me that some teachers are not up to doing their jobs which again proves to me that all kids don't have a good chance as some of the others......perhaps that is why some kids don't know their tables when they leave primary???


I'm stunned at how many teachers go on long-term sick leave.

I've only had experience since my eldest started primary, so 4 years, and, despite being in a small local primary, I can think, off the top of my head (and only teachers I know of) of three long term 'stress related' sickies, including the head teacher, and one of the three has been off for two long term periods. I'm not sure whether that's typical of teaching and/or the public sector (having never worked in either).

 

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Quote nickgusset at 01 Feb 2015 11.22am

Under Tory cund plans, if all students do not know their times tables on leaving primary school for 2 years in a row, a school can be forced into being an academy. How stupid! Whilst I acknowledge that rapid recall of multiplication facts is a good thing, there is no way on God's earth that all children are capable of learning them.
[Link]


Surely that depends on the quality of the teachers?

Since the teachers have been "tested" for want of a better word on their personal abilities at teaching, many have gone sick with stress after getting bad marks.
In my daughters school where she is a teacher one third have gone sick with stress and wont get back to work leaving the other teachers to carry on regardless. This would prove a point to me that some teachers are not up to doing their jobs which again proves to me that all kids don't have a good chance as some of the others......perhaps that is why some kids don't know their tables when they leave primary???


I'm stunned at how many teachers go on long-term sick leave.

I've only had experience since my eldest started primary, so 4 years, and, despite being in a small local primary, I can think, off the top of my head (and only teachers I know of) of three long term 'stress related' sickies, including the head teacher, and one of the three has been off for two long term periods. I'm not sure whether that's typical of teaching and/or the public sector (having never worked in either).


My cousin was a train driver and went long term sick with "stress".

It's the public sector worker's equivalent of whiplash.

 


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Quote nickgusset at 01 Feb 2015 11.22am

Under Tory cund plans, if all students do not know their times tables on leaving primary school for 2 years in a row, a school can be forced into being an academy. How stupid! Whilst I acknowledge that rapid recall of multiplication facts is a good thing, there is no way on God's earth that all children are capable of learning them.
[Link]


Surely that depends on the quality of the teachers?

Since the teachers have been "tested" for want of a better word on their personal abilities at teaching, many have gone sick with stress after getting bad marks.
In my daughters school where she is a teacher one third have gone sick with stress and wont get back to work leaving the other teachers to carry on regardless. This would prove a point to me that some teachers are not up to doing their jobs which again proves to me that all kids don't have a good chance as some of the others......perhaps that is why some kids don't know their tables when they leave primary???


I'm stunned at how many teachers go on long-term sick leave.

I've only had experience since my eldest started primary, so 4 years, and, despite being in a small local primary, I can think, off the top of my head (and only teachers I know of) of three long term 'stress related' sickies, including the head teacher, and one of the three has been off for two long term periods. I'm not sure whether that's typical of teaching and/or the public sector (having never worked in either).


My cousin was a train driver and went long term sick with "stress".

It's the public sector worker's equivalent of whiplash.

As someone that works in the public sector myself (having previously worked in the private sector for 20 odd years) its simply full of people that have simply idled their way through life without fear of losing their jobs, major change or both. Now that its becoming more of a reality unless they change their ways the number of stress related absences is increasing that's for sure. Having said that there are plenty of good people that remain; its just that whenever the pressure is on its the weakest that fall first...its the natural order of things I guess.

 


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Quote nickgusset at 01 Feb 2015 11.22am

Under Tory cund plans, if all students do not know their times tables on leaving primary school for 2 years in a row, a school can be forced into being an academy. How stupid! Whilst I acknowledge that rapid recall of multiplication facts is a good thing, there is no way on God's earth that all children are capable of learning them.
[Link]


Surely that depends on the quality of the teachers?

Since the teachers have been "tested" for want of a better word on their personal abilities at teaching, many have gone sick with stress after getting bad marks.
In my daughters school where she is a teacher one third have gone sick with stress and wont get back to work leaving the other teachers to carry on regardless. This would prove a point to me that some teachers are not up to doing their jobs which again proves to me that all kids don't have a good chance as some of the others......perhaps that is why some kids don't know their tables when they leave primary???


I'm stunned at how many teachers go on long-term sick leave.

I've only had experience since my eldest started primary, so 4 years, and, despite being in a small local primary, I can think, off the top of my head (and only teachers I know of) of three long term 'stress related' sickies, including the head teacher, and one of the three has been off for two long term periods. I'm not sure whether that's typical of teaching and/or the public sector (having never worked in either).


My cousin was a train driver and went long term sick with "stress".

It's the public sector worker's equivalent of whiplash.

And they get away with it.....WITH union backing as well.......Makes you laugh..... or cry depending on what side of the fence you are on!!

 


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legaleagle Flag 10 Mar 15 8.29pm

Quote NickinOX at 10 Mar 2015 1.06pm

Quote nickgusset at 10 Mar 2015 12.49pm

Quote Stuk at 10 Mar 2015 12.39pm

Quote nickgusset at 10 Mar 2015 12.35pm

[Link]

This details transference of property and the money academy chains are making through selling off 'excess' land for profit.


I said "credible" and "unbiased". Try again.

But even the link says August 2012, so it's steam rolling ahead clearly....

Which of the facts in the article are wrong?

Are any articles unbiased?

Using that logic this must be just as valid. It even uses evidence rather than mostly citing other blog posts written by the same person.

[Link]

I would like to see how free schools do in comparison to non-free schools when the next set of results come out (later this year I think); whether they have a demographic advantage (currently the evidence seems to says no, but there is only a limited sample size); and whether they have been set up in areas of need (again the evidence is too limited to draw full conclusions, but suggests they have been). Once more data is available I think it will be reasonable to judge.

On the other side, I would like to see actual evidence that having a teacher training certificate makes someone a better teacher, and whether comprehensive schools actually did better for their pupils' education than the old system of grammar and technical schooling. Which at least let students excel in an area of aptitude rather than trying to pretend they were all essentially the same. Something that is patently silly.


It would also be interesting if levels of funding available to the schools are factored in.It has been suggested that free schools receive a disproportionate amount of government funding. The government allocated £1.7bn of capital funding for free schools up to 2014-15, a third of the total £5.3bn allocated for creating new school places in England as a whole over the relevant spending review period.

 

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nickgusset Flag Shizzlehurst 10 Mar 15 9.09pm

Quote NickinOX at 10 Mar 2015 1.06pm

Quote nickgusset at 10 Mar 2015 12.49pm

Quote Stuk at 10 Mar 2015 12.39pm

Quote nickgusset at 10 Mar 2015 12.35pm

[Link]

This details transference of property and the money academy chains are making through selling off 'excess' land for profit.


I said "credible" and "unbiased". Try again.

But even the link says August 2012, so it's steam rolling ahead clearly....

Which of the facts in the article are wrong?

Are any articles unbiased?

Using that logic this must be just as valid. It even uses evidence rather than mostly citing other blog posts written by the same person.

[Link]

I would like to see how free schools do in comparison to non-free schools when the next set of results come out (later this year I think); whether they have a demographic advantage (currently the evidence seems to says no, but there is only a limited sample size); and whether they have been set up in areas of need (again the evidence is too limited to draw full conclusions, but suggests they have been). Once more data is available I think it will be reasonable to judge.

On the other side, I would like to see actual evidence that having a teacher training certificate makes someone a better teacher, and whether comprehensive schools actually did better for their pupils' education than the old system of grammar and technical schooling. Which at least let students excel in an area of aptitude rather than trying to pretend they were all essentially the same. Something that is patently silly.

According to this [Link] the policy exchange (Tory funded, founded by Gove) research on free schools is seriously flawed.

Edited by nickgusset (10 Mar 2015 9.14pm)

 

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