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 Teddy Eagle  23 Mar 24 8.38pm |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
I would have expected the average to be improved with the top echelon slightly worse and the lowest much better. Do you have evidence to the contrary? Yes. I went to one.
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cryrst  The garden of England 23 Mar 24 9.33pm |
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
Yes. I went to one. From my recollection you had a choice of GCE or CSE Edited by cryrst (23 Mar 2024 9.34pm)
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| Teddy Eagle 23 Mar 24 9.39pm |
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Originally posted by cryrst
From my recollection you had a choice of GCE or CSE Edited by cryrst (23 Mar 2024 9.34pm) There was no choice for us and to get a grade 1 CSE you needed about 90% while a GCE grade C was about 40% so it was a lot harder to get. Anything other than a grade 1 CSE was pointless.
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Wisbech Eagle  Truro Cornwall 23 Mar 24 10.32pm |
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Originally posted by steeleye20
That's so funny, are there really 60 millions+ people like this. Although they clearly have a higher IQ than the average British tory Brexit voter.
It is both funny and concerning. People like this help choose the de facto leader of the Western world. How many are this dim? Hopefully not 60 million but enough to make the difference. Even the average Tory Brexit voter isn’t this bad. Many were just tired of the nonsense and bought the “Get Brexit Done” con. Not so sure though about the average UKIP or Brexit Party voter. Many of them really believed in it. That demands considerable dimness in your DNA. You might enjoy this analysis of the way Trump speaks. It’s both interesting and so true:-
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| Behind Enemy Lines Sussex 23 Mar 24 10.40pm |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
It is both funny and concerning. People like this help choose the de facto leader of the Western world. How many are this dim? Hopefully not 60 million but enough to make the difference. Even the average Tory Brexit voter isn’t this bad. Many were just tired of the nonsense and bought the “Get Brexit Done” con. Not so sure though about the average UKIP or Brexit Party voter. Many of them really believed in it. That demands considerable dimness in your DNA. You might enjoy this analysis of the way Trump speaks. It’s both interesting and so true:- Interesting. In an ideal world who would you exclude from the voting process?
hats off to palace, they were always gonna be louder, and hate to say it but they were impressive ALL bouncing and singing. |
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 23 Mar 24 10.44pm |
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
Yes. I went to one. I went to school before comprehensives became commonplace. I sat, and “failed”, my 11+ and was consigned to a secondary modern. A place designed to turn out those who worked their hands, not their brains. Fortunately it too was streamed and I made it into the top stream of 4 so got a more academic education and sat GCEs. I would have loved to have gone to a comprehensive. At that time only those with a grammar school background were considered suitable for many jobs. It took me years before my experience overtook the importance of a lack of grammar school education.
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 23 Mar 24 10.45pm |
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Originally posted by Behind Enemy Lines
Interesting. In an ideal world who would you exclude from the voting process? None. I would improve education.
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| cryrst The garden of England 24 Mar 24 6.24am |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
None. I would improve education. General education or political education as one can be skewed to suit the teachers choice looking at present schooling in the west at least.
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Forest Hillbilly  in a hidey-hole 24 Mar 24 7.05am |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
None. I would improve education. Better educate them to vote the preferred way ? I would like education to provide the people with better quality politicians to vote for.
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 georgenorman 24 Mar 24 7.23am |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
It is both funny and concerning. People like this help choose the de facto leader of the Western world. How many are this dim? Hopefully not 60 million but enough to make the difference. Even the average Tory Brexit voter isn’t this bad. Many were just tired of the nonsense and bought the “Get Brexit Done” con. Not so sure though about the average UKIP or Brexit Party voter. Many of them really believed in it. That demands considerable dimness in your DNA. You might enjoy this analysis of the way Trump speaks. It’s both interesting and so true:- We would certainly enjoy it if we could get a linguist (and a psychiatrist) to analyse your posts.
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 24 Mar 24 8.03am |
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Originally posted by cryrst
General education or political education as one can be skewed to suit the teachers choice looking at present schooling in the west at least. Untrue. The teachers teach what the curriculum requires them to teach. If they don’t that’s a failure of management and if we don’t have effective management that’s our failure.
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 24 Mar 24 8.06am |
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Originally posted by Forest Hillbilly
Better educate them to vote the preferred way ? I would like education to provide the people with better quality politicians to vote for. I agree. Just so long as the preference is genuinely that of the majority and not of the extremes. Better education should produce better everyone, including politicians.
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