What to do, What to do???

[crazydave]

A friend of mine over 10 years did his o level computing, had a break then a btec computing had a break then a computing degree - he reckons he answered the same questions in each exam.

primary school teachers have complained for years about sats and the way they restrict education. you are taught whats on the exams and thats it. since the constant grading system where they use your term work as a percentage of the final exam result male students are failing in greater numbers because lets face it blokes dont like that sort of pressure whereas girls thrive on it. all the phys ed has been curtailed to the lads have no means of venting their energies and end up fat and frustrated. the policy of getting people into university and colleges to studia media or american studies is completely daft and they should listen to the kids and bring back proper apprenticeships so they can build real houses not the prefab boxes they churn out now. boys need a sense of worth and you cant get better than teaching them to make something usefull.

Increase the school day to give the kids a proper education with plenty of physical and vocational classes. Increase the staff so they can get enough free periods.

I look forward to reading tony's manifesto seeing as he hasn't objected to standing for parliament

 

[JURA]

WALLENSTEIN. did you have a much longer post on this vein this morning. or am i going mad ?

Sums it up for me... life could be a lot worse

 

[Wallenstein]

WALLENSTEIN. did you have a much longer post on this vein this morning. or am i going mad ?

Yeah, ended up typing an essay but don't want to get too political, the woods are when I go to escape politics etc!

Soz, should have noted it when I made the edit.

 

[EdS]

It never has been ''Great'', thats the problem.

It is Great Britain from Britannia major ie GreatER (or large) Britain as opposed to Britannia minor = small or lesser Britain - roughly modern day Brittany. See Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (roughly 1136 if I remeber correctly).

It has nothing to do with us been good or better than anyone else.

 

[JURA]

Shame that. I especially liked the first line !!!! Rest very good too made i had alot of affinity with what you wrote .... Post it again.. Go on..Go on...




QUOTE=Wallenstein;418723]Yeah, ended up typing an essay but don't want to get too political, the woods are when I go to escape politics etc!

Soz, should have noted it when I made the edit. [/QUOTE]

 

[crazydave]

well more kids are dying from playing with trains apparently so we should ban trains I reckon

 

[John Fenna]

well more kids are dying from playing with trains apparently so we should ban trains I reckon

And the numbers killed in cars!!!! Their own and ones stolen......ban cars (except those with a chassis length less than 2m with a carbon emission less than blah - unless you have good reason to own one. There is no reason for driving a car. No one needs a car, with all the great public transport we have)

Although I have never been to Whitehall my knees can jerk as well as theirs!

 

[Tadpole]

With all this bad news we see, in the UK (read London) and around the world, with the television, the radio and the newspapers and especially the red tops, all causing us major depression, sadness. Each paper copycatting the next on “proving” to us just “how bad the world is”.
I think we should just ban the news and have done with it.

 

[Bernie Garland]

I know longer watch the news or read the news as the only news you get is bad news,so what the point.

Bernie

 

[Bushcraft4life]

It is Great Britain from Britannia major ie GreatER (or large) Britain as opposed to Britannia minor = small or lesser Britain - roughly modern day Brittany. See Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (roughly 1136 if I remeber correctly).

It has nothing to do with us been good or better than anyone else.

Thank you for the History lesson, but i KNOW it has nothing to do with us being great as in good, it was said in sarcasm as a reply to something mrmel said

 

[EdS]

fair enough just on of my pet irks

 

[crazydave]

whats needed is a big wall around london and leave it to be run by the politicians - the rest of the country can go about its normal business

 

[Bushcraft4life]

fair enough just on of my pet irks

No worries mate

 

[mrmel]

Oh dear what have I started???

 

[Bushcraft4life]

Oh dear what have I started???

Personally, i think this is a great thread, i know we are not supposed to go into the political side of things, but people who have posted here have done so sensibly and suitably.

 

[crazydave]

exactly - mainly because everyone agrees

sometimes a free speech section is usefull for a proper rant though.

 

[mrmel]

Ye fair play I have read every post so fair and have been sat here laughing to myself purely because its all so true.

 

[crazydave]

there was an excellent thing on the radio tonite, sounded like party political thing but it was a Prof Lisa jardine and called a point of view.

the jist of it was - people are panicking because they dont understand the maths behind the statistics they only hear the news which is why they panic.

it should be on listen again if anyone os interested

 

[Celt_Ginger]

I seem to remember that they banned hand guns (except in Northern Ireland, can you believe that) and all the gun crime stopped over night............didn't it? I suppose the same will happen with knives. What I can't believe is that the Government think we, the general public, are actually more stupid than they are.

 

[mrmel]

As long as there are humans on earth with the mind and mobility to make something sharper than it is now (like rubbing a rock on another) there will be people getting hurt by it, it will never stop so banning knives guns or anything else will not help the situation. I'v heard that in prison people sharpen their toothbrush to kill people with!!! The only way you can truely stop crime is to stop the human race.