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  • MrGongGong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 18357

    How do you stop a runaway train ?



    Should work now
    not like this f*ckwit
    Last edited by MrGongGong; 02-07-13, 05:57.
  • teamsaint
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    • Nov 2010
    • 25190

    #2
    Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
    http://www.independent.co.u ak/news/uk/politics/cash-for-classrooms-michael-gove-plans-to-let-firms-run-schools-for-profit-8682395.html
    link just needs a tweak, Gongers.
    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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    • Beef Oven

      #3
      Gove likes to to think outside boxes.

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      • MrGongGong
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        • Nov 2010
        • 18357

        #4
        Originally posted by Beef Oven View Post
        Gove likes to to think outside boxes.
        hummm

        The man is a dangerous idiot
        even the most orthodox CE , Bullock in D , traditionalist music teachers I meet think he is bonkers
        the Kippers don't really have an education policy though so (or what little they have looks a bit like this !) so there's no point going to them

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        • Dave2002
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          • Dec 2010
          • 18008

          #5
          Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
          hummm

          The man is a dangerous idiot
          even the most orthodox CE , Bullock in D , traditionalist music teachers I meet think he is bonkers
          the Kippers don't really have an education policy though so (or what little they have looks a bit like this !) so there's no point going to them
          Reminds me of Tom Sharpe and David Lodge. IIRC one of them wrote about a Durex endowed chair at a university, and I think they both had similar ideas in some of their works. Just imagine the Durex IT suite in a school! Maybe they could get Playboy to sponsor a failing school - that'd go down well!

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          • Serial_Apologist
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            • Dec 2010
            • 37559

            #6
            Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
            Reminds me of Tom Sharpe and David Lodge. IIRC one of them wrote about a Durex endowed chair at a university, and I think they both had similar ideas in some of their works. Just imagine the Durex IT suite in a school! Maybe they could get Playboy to sponsor a failing school - that'd go down well!
            Didn't Playboy once do just that? I seem to recall school pencils and biros with the Playboy motif on them, and a lot of fuss.

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            • Beef Oven

              #7
              Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
              hummm

              The man is a dangerous idiot
              even the most orthodox CE , Bullock in D , traditionalist music teachers I meet think he is bonkers
              the Kippers don't really have an education policy though so (or what little they have looks a bit like this !) so there's no point going to them
              No, don't look to UKIP for anything other than the three Rs, comprehensive and grammer schools and grant funded university education based on merit.

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              • pastoralguy
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                • Nov 2010
                • 7731

                #8
                Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                Didn't Playboy once do just that? I seem to recall school pencils and biros with the Playboy motif on them, and a lot of fuss.
                I'm sure there's a Simpsons sketch where, looking into the future, Pepsi 'sponsors' all schools. Problem is, come exam time, all the questions have to have a Pepsi reference in the answer... One student doesn't know an answer so she gets a 'partial credit' for answering 'Pepsi'.

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                • MrGongGong
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 18357

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Beef Oven View Post
                  No, don't look to UKIP for anything other than the three Rs, comprehensive and grammer schools and grant funded university education based on merit.
                  The "three R's" are , of course, reading writing wroughting NOT what most folk think
                  Making stuff (Wroughting) includes experimental computer music
                  Grammer or Grammar schools ? Terrible idea , a failed idea that we sadly haven't got rid of yet .......(you can't have "comprehensive" and "grammar" schools at the same time)

                  I suppose they have a magic money fish that they will catch in Icelandic coastal waters to pay for it all as well ........

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                  • ahinton
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                    • Nov 2010
                    • 16122

                    #10
                    In answer to the question posed by the thread topic, perhaps you put Goves on the line...
                    Last edited by ahinton; 02-07-13, 17:50.

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                    • Beef Oven

                      #11
                      Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                      The "three R's" are , of course, reading writing wroughting NOT what most folk think
                      Making stuff (Wroughting) includes experimental computer music
                      Grammer or Grammar schools ? Terrible idea , a failed idea that we sadly haven't got rid of yet .......(you can't have "comprehensive" and "grammar" schools at the same time)

                      I suppose they have a magic money fish that they will catch in Icelandic coastal waters to pay for it all as well ........
                      You of all people making austerity arguments against grants for university students and cessation of fees. You don't need a magic money fish to have free education, all it takes is the political will.

                      You musthave grammer and comprehensive schools together. One produces the leaders and highly skilled, the other the mainstay of industry.

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                      • teamsaint
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 25190

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Beef Oven View Post
                        No, don't look to UKIP for anything other than the three Rs, comprehensive and grammer schools and grant funded university education based on merit.
                        like the others, anything to stop people actually thinking for themselves.
                        I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                        I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                        • ahinton
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 16122

                          #13
                          Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                          like the others, anything to stop people actually thinking for themselves.
                          I suspect that it might be wise to cease and desist from looking to UKIP at all in this context, given that it has no material impact on or input into it and continued references to it might risk muddying the waters somewhat.

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                          • Eine Alpensinfonie
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                            • Nov 2010
                            • 20568

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Beef Oven View Post
                            Gove likes to to think outside boxes.
                            I must have missed that. When did he actually think?

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                            • Beef Oven

                              #15
                              Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                              like the others, anything to stop people actually thinking for themselves.
                              Not sure it stops people thinking for themselves. For example, Mick Jagger was a fine young grammar school boy and he could well think for himself!

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