English Speaking Schools.

"A FAILING secondary school is being forced to beg for multi-lingual volunteers to help teachers cope with the 39 different languages spoken by its pupils.

Endeavour High School in Hull has seen a “meteoric” rise in pupils who do not speak English as their first language.

Many come from eastern Europe but there are also children from Cambodia, the Congo and Taiwan, with Kurdish, Mandarin, Arabic, Polish and Farsi among the most common languages.

What the fuck are Cambodians, Congolese, Taiwanese, Kurdish, Mandarin and Arabic people doing in our fucking country? They are NOT EU! Isn't it bad enough that our schools have to cope with a myriad of European languages?

"In 2005 just six per cent of pupils at Endeavour had a foreign language as their primary tongue. Today, following Labour’s open-door immigration policy, these pupils account for almost a third, with many unable to utter a single word of English upon arrival". Express online for the rest of the article.

Time to separate the schoolchildren. Those children that don't speak English should be taught English first before they are allowed into mainstream education. This would not only ensure that they are better prepared but would give the schools time to absorb those extra children at a slower, more organised pace.

This is a problem that will not go away. It puts a ridiculous amount of pressure on teachers and worse still, the remainder of students can't possibly be receiving an adequate education.

Still, that's what our politicians want, stupid people who don't question the establishment.

Diane Abbott

Old Holborn is one of my favourite bloggers, so I tend to read his blog daily but today it seems as though one of his posts has touched a nerve with Ms Abbott and her adoring subjects.

Not only was the video pulled but OH's site was reported as spam in a pathetic attempt to get it deleted. How low can some people get?

Why so sensitive, one might ask? Why indeed. Could it be that the video is too embarrassing for Ms Abbott and the Labour Party?

You see, when I was at school we used praise God, the Queen, our wonderful country and even the school.. but never an ordinary person (which is what Ms Abbott is). That would have been in very bad taste, especially in the way this one has been done.

Whose idea was this? They need to see a psychiatrist or better still, they should get the sack. Is this an early lesson in how to suck up to your local MP in order to get something?

It smacks of Hitler Youth, it shows how far our children are being influenced politically, probably without their parents knowledge!

The brainwashing starts early with Labour and the socialists, they want to make absolutely certain that the next generation are under no illusion who should be worshipped and obeyed.

It's all beyond words......Sick, just really sick!

Children Of The Revolution

UPDATE. This video was removed from DailyMotion's site. It was originally removed from youtube. Diane Abbott must be squirming.... she should be ashamed of herself!

British Educashion Under Labour!

I was just perusing The Telegraph and amongst my fave bloggers there is James Delingpole! He recently blogged "What Labour has done to our education system is criminal – as this heart-rending story shows"

It's probably not worth going to his blog to read this and I am certain his reason for writing the piece is for readers to go straight to THE BLOG in question. (The comments are quite a disturbing read, it seems that most of our schools are like this).

What this mum writes about is something I have heard countless times in the past few years. Women I know despairing of how bad the schools have become under the politically correct, socially engineered education system.

When I was at school in the 70's, this sort of stuff did not happen or very rarely but we had discipline and actually learnt stuff like Maths, English, Physics, Chemistry, History and Geography amongst others.

We did not have lessons on "honour based violence, gender equality and sexual violence" when we were at school. We were being prepared to face life as adults with a goodly amount of all round knowledge to enable us to make our own judgements on such things.

Labour have fucked our schools and ruined our childrens educations.

Anyhow read the blog post. I think this will probably hit the papers soon. Daily Mail?

Boy 4 expelled from school

A boy aged four has become one of the youngest children in Britain to be expelled from school.

He was thrown out of his primary just weeks after starting for constantly disrupting classes and attacking teachers.

In one incident the youngster is said to have lashed out at a teacher after he was dragged away from light switches he was repeatedly flicking on and off.

And a second teacher claims the boy, who cannot be named, kicked her after he got into an argument with another pupil over a jigsaw.

What a sad society this has become to allow a four year old little hooligan to behave so badly in a social situation. Shame really, all he needed was a good smack bottom a few times he first acted like a brat and this would never have happened!

Spare the rod, spoil the child! (How true that is).....

Source : Daily Mail

From Pravda

It seems we are all imagining the fact that criminals have taken advantage of the human rights act!

The Human Rights Act is not a "criminals' charter", the Director of Public Prosecutions has said. The rights enshrined in the act were "basic, fundamental, and so much part of our way of life that we take them for granted," Keir Starmer said. The law does protect the rights of victims of crime, he said in the public prosecution annual lecture in London. The Conservatives want to scrap the act, saying it puts the rights of criminals before those of communities. (If only they wouldl).....

Piss off you dickhead!

The police can't even give out descriptions for witnesses anymore incase they're asian or black! The MSM are too scared to publish photos of criminals if they are foreigners.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT? GOT A CAT? ITS YOUR HUMAN RIGHT TO STAY IN THE UK THEN!

What planet do these people reside on, it must be a parallel earth!

Its a day for left wing nutters today!

Rowan Williams condemns 'oppressive' English educational system - Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, has criticised the "oppressive" English educational system, accusing successive governments of prioritising test marks over children's spiritual or emotional happiness.

What are the schools meant to do? Teach Islam, Christianity, Judaism??? You let them know, because I think its got to the point where most of them are confused or worried about what or how they're allowed to teach anymore!

Why don't you retire or go tend a congregation somewhere, better still, go live out your life in an old peoples home and shut the hell up!

Socialism and Labour kill our young!

This is pretty disturbing. I expect it's not limited to the one city that the study was carried out in.

A 'profoundly shocking' study found that one in six long-term jobless young people were dead within a decade.

In one British city, 15 per cent of 'Neets' - Not in Education, Employment or Training - died mainly from drinking or drugs within ten years of falling out of the system.

The research was highlighted by one of the country's most senior civil servants who said he hoped it was not representative of the country as a whole.

However, it points to the devastating toll the economic crisis threatens to take on a 'lost generation'.

Labour's social policies have bestowed a legacy on our young people. Hopelessness!

I'm SO RELIEVED my kids had their education under a conservative government. They're enthusiastic, competitive and capable adults now.

Shame on you, Blair, Brown et al.

How can you sleep at night? You disgust me.

Leo McKinstry

Leo McKinstry is one of my favourite columnists. Following on from the piece that I wrote earlier about education, he has written on the subject too but, his post is much better than mine.

"Employers complain that it is becoming increasingly difficult to find suitable recruits because of poor school standards. There is now an absurd paradox at the heart of modern Britain, in that the Government spends unprecedented sums on state education, pushing for 50 per cent of young people to go to university, but then promotes mass immigration because of lack of skills in the domestic workforce".

Nuff said!

Education, the Socialist FAILURE!

With the news that HALF-a-million 11-year-olds in the UK have left primary school unable to read and write since Labour came to power. Last year’s total put the number moving on to secondary school with no useful literacy skills at 465,000 since 1997.

Standards of reading and writing in primary schools fell for the first time in the history of SATs since the tests were introduced in 1995.

One in five youngsters - 25 per cent of boys and 15 per cent of girls - failed to achieve 'level four' in English, the standard expected of 11-year- olds, despite billions of pounds invested in literacy and numeracy drives.

In what was seen as a stunning admission of failure, Schools Minister Diana Johnson suggested that 'level three', the standard expected of nine-year-olds, should be seen as a decent achievement for many 11-year-olds.

Youngsters at level three are typically unable to read well enough to grasp the point of a story or report.

They also struggle to write extended sentences using commas and are unable to add, subtract, multiply and divide in their heads or recite the six times table.

However Miss Johnson insisted that, while levels four and five remained the goal, achievement at level three should not be discounted.'Level three is actually when you have a sound basic numeracy understanding and I think it's important to recognise that,' she said.'I want us to recognise children at different levels. At level three I want them to progress on, but they can read at level three.' Honestly, how can she defend this failure?

Diane Johnson however, is more concerned that we have national statistics measuring school dinner take-up!

What a strange priority!

Astounding that absolutely nowhere in these reports HAS ANYONE COME UP WITH WHY THESE RESULTS ARE SO BAD!!!

I just don't believe that the blame can be put on teachers.

Socialism loves failure and the underdog! It gives the socialists a purpose, a reason to interfere even more in our lives!

Instead of tackling the problems that Labour HAS CREATED AT HOME, as usual, Gordon Brown has come up with another generous offer for OTHER COUNTRIES TO EDUCATE THEIR KIDS WITH BRITISH TAXPAYERS MONEY!

War-torn and lawless countries will receive a massive boost in international aid to fund education, under a shake-up due to be unveiled today. The Government is singling out countries in conflict for an £8.5bn aid package – heralding a switch in resources from backing a more general development programme.

The five countries considered as top priority are Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Nepal, Nigeria and Yemen. Others cited by the Government include Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

That's OK then, as long as other countries' children are educated, who gives a crap about British kids?

Honestly, you couldn't make it up!

NB, These countries are obviously peaceful enough for us to send billions to in aid for education, the question that needs to be asked is, why are there still so many asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Nepal, Nigeria, Yemen, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the UK?

Surely, these people want to go home and start to support their own people?

Fiddled consultation at Charlotte Turner School Greenwich

Remember this 2 days ago? Parent Power, Gimme a Break! 

There was a protest nearby at a local school when Gordon delivered his Parent Power Speech 

"The Prime Minister was visiting a Lewisham school to announce plans to give parents more power over their children's education after a weekend of speculation over his leadership.

But the secondary school in question is embroiled in a battle with parents who are furious at being “ignored” over plans to merge it with a nearby primary" 

Now, parents at Charlotte Turner School, Benbow Street, Greenwich, SE8 3DH, have occupied their school to oppose its planned closure in September by the council. They released this statement this evening;

 “Following a false consultation parents at Charlotte Turner have occupied their school. We have protested outside the town hall, put questions at a cabinet and council meeting but we were fobbed off. 297 parents replied to a consultation on the council’s plan. 296 were against and only 1 parent in agreement. Yet the council have decided  to listen to the 1 not the 296 and plan to close the school in September".

We demand the council reverse this decision.

They have a Facebook site if you want to join the protest.

If you have any influence or want to send a message of support::

Koreene 07913160002

Angelina 07957966953

Surprise, surprise.. the MP for Greenwich is a LABOUR MP. 

Nick Raynsford - Are you listening to parents Mr Raysford?

Browns "Parent Power" is an illusion. It's a ruse to get you to shut up and concentrate on him pretending to "do the right thing". The trouble is, Labour actually NEVER do the right thing, which is LISTEN to parents.

Labour are NOT listening to parents, they're absolutely IGNORING THEM. Parents from TWO schools in London are not happy with your "PARENT POWER".

Parents Face Court Action

Just to show I'm not always picking on minorities, this has me seething HERE... Christian and Muslim parents have objected to their children being taught lessons on gay and lesbian history, so kept them from school and they now face court action.

This is a PRIMARY school. Now, I'm all for sexual equality, gay rights, blah, blah... but please don't teach primary school children about gay history. It's just not "cricket".... teach them British History, Maths, English, anything.. but primary school teachers have no business teaching 9 and 10 year old children about homosexuality.

I would have pulled mine out of school too. I took responsibility for my children's sex education when I thought they were ready and chose the method by which I explained it... that was MY job as a parent! 

This school has gone beyond its responsibilities as an educational establishment, this is indocrination of a most heinous kind. This is taking the responsibility of the childs moral welfare out of the hands of its parents and giving it to the state. This is completely unacceptable!

Children Thrive With Rules and Discipline

From the Daily Mail.

A school claims to be transforming children's behaviour and results by introducing Victorian-style rules.

Pupils at Neville Lovett Community School are encouraged to answer staff with a polite 'yes, Mrs Jones' rather than 'yeah' and stand respectfully behind their desks until the class teacher tells them to sit.

They are also required to wait in the corridor in an orderly line before a lesson begins, say 'good morning Sir' as they file into the classroom, arrange their books and stationery neatly on the desk and stand when an adult enters the room.

NEVILLE LOVETT SCHOOL'S FIVE GOLDEN RULES

1. Working together

Pupils must hold doors open for others, respond to teachers properly using their names, speak clearly, be polite to other pupils in class, take compliments gracefully and return them, thank others for a good turn and shake hands with adults properly.

2. Following instructions

Pupils must arrange their books and pens neatly on their desks before standing respectfully behind their desks and waiting for the teacher's direction to sit. They must obey all teachers' instructions during the lesson.

3. Punctuality

Pupils must arrive at school and for lessons on time, line up in an orderly fashion outside the classroom before the lesson begins and say 'good morning Sir or Miss' before entering the classroom.

4. Good behaviour

Pupils must not swear, must show attentiveness in class, and must stand whenever an adult enters the room.

5. Completion of homework

Pupils must hand in well-presented homework on time.

 

Not really Victorian. I went to a school that had far stricter rules in the 60/70's and if we did not adhere to them, we were punished with detention, order marks or the cane. Conversely, we had a merit system which won us awards for excellence.

Our Kids are Being Taught by 20,000 Unqualified Teachers

"Labour Style Education" is a pet peeve of mine. In their social utopia, each child is equally bright (which is not so). Those that are the brightest should be separated from the not so brights and they should be educated separately. 

I don't believe any child can thrive in a class where there are children that either can't speak English or where there are other children which should be given more attention as they are not quite so quick.

I believe in Grammar Schools and I will not apologise for my beliefs... but this story has completely "gobsmacked" me. What the fuck?

"Thousands of schoolteachers across England have no teaching qualifications, it emerged yesterday.

The number of unqualified staff, who include those currently in training on a "fast track" into the profession, and foreign teachers whose qualifications are not recognised in the UK, has mushroomed from just 3,000 when Labour came to power in 1997 to more than 20,000 last year, government figures have revealed"

Surely, teachers from overseas, should be retested before they are allowed to teach in another country? How can we be certain that their exam systems are as rigorous as ours or whether they can speak English well enough in their specialist subjects? Do we check whether these qualifications are genuine (remember we had illegal immigrants cleaning in the Home Office) or whether they are up to date in the first place?

"The revelation comes after the Children's Secretary Ed Balls last week claimed that 16-year-old trainee teaching assistants could be put in charge of fellow teenagers"

Ed Balls is an idiot! 16 year olds ARE children you dickhead!

"A survey last year found that computing, religious education, business studies, classics, design technology and drama were the subjects with the largest number of unqualified teachers, with each subject being taught by teachers, more than 45 per cent of whom had not passed a post-A level qualification. Subjects with the least unqualified teachers were physics, biology and chemistry"

No wonder we're churning out a generation of morons, the teachers are NOT QUALIFIED! 

For fucks sake!

From the Independent online

Just got this in an email.. not sure if it's true, but its funny!

The following questions were set in last year's GCSE examination in Swindon , Wiltshire.

These are genuine answers (from 16 year olds).

Q. Name the four seasons

A. Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar

Q. Explain one of the processes by which water can be made safe to drink

A. Flirtation makes water safe to drink because it removes large pollutants like grit, sand, dead sheep and canoeists

Q. How is dew formed

A. The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire

Q. What causes the tides in the oceans

A. The tides are a fight between the earth and the moon. All water tends to flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins the fight

Q. What guarantees may a mortgage company insist on

A. If you are buying a house they will insist that you are well endowed

Q. In a democratic society, how important are elections

A. Very important. Sex can only happen when a male gets an election

Q. What are steroids

A. Things for keeping carpets still on the stairs

Q. What happens to your body as you age

A. When you get old, so do your bowels and you get intercontinental

Q. What happens to a boy when he reaches puberty

A. He says goodbye to his boyhood and looks forward to his adultery

Q. Name a major disease associated with cigarettes

A. Premature death

Q. What is artificial insemination

A. When the farmer does it to the bull instead of the cow

Q. How can you delay milk turning sour

A. Keep it in the cow

Q. How are the main parts of the body categorised (eg the abdomen)

A. The body is consisted into 3 parts - the brainium, the borax and the abdominal cavity. The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs and the abdominal cavity contains the five bowels: A,E,I,O and U

Q. What is the fibula

A. A small lie

Q. What does 'varicose' mean

A. Nearby

Q. What is the most common form of birth control

A. Most people prevent contraception by wearing a condominium

Q. Give the meaning of the term 'Caesarean section'

A. The caesarean section is a district in Rome

Q. What is a seizure

A. A Roman Emperor

Q. What is a terminal illness

A. When you are sick at the airport

Q. Give an example of a fungus. What is a characteristic feature

A. Mushrooms. They always grow in damp places and they look like umbrellas

Q. Use the word 'judicious' in a sentence to show you understand its meaning

A. Hands that judicious can be soft as your face

Q. What does the word 'benign' mean

A. Benign is what you will be after you be eight

Q. What is a turbine

A. Something an Arab or Shreik wears on his head

CHAV BLURRED TO PROTECT THE IGNORANT. GOD HELP US IF WE EXPECT THEM TO BE INTERESTED IN POLITICS!

EDUCATION

I have the answer to the social mobility problem. Yep, I've thought long and hard and I know what we should do!

Encourage those into private education (those that can afford it), it's less of a drain on the state system.

Bring back Grammar Schools (allows those kids who normally wouldn't get a chance at an excellent education to have one, FREE).

Split the remaining kids into a) academic encouragement education b) practical encouragement education.

The last two of the groups are there to ensure that each childs innate talents/gifts/abilities are channelled into the correct area. 

a) Schools set up to help those who were left behind at the Grammar School process for some reason or another.

b) Schools set up for kids quite obviously not of an academic ilk (not academics nor likely to be), which teach practical skiils like bricklaying, mechanics, plumbing, childcare, catering, beauty (hands on stuff).

Each school having the ability to "swap" a student if and when it is realised that his/her future lies elsewhere!

Duh!

Morrisons are creating new jobs! WOW, now all those university graduates with useless degrees can get work experience at Morrisons, learning "retail craft food skills"... yes, you too can enter the "Fresh Food Academy".

Alternatively, you can sell complete crap at Poundland!

This is the governments new work creation scheme.

What happened to technology, science, research? 

Oh yes, that;s right, this generation are educated morons!

Guardian

Education, Education, Education???

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/dec/15/children-reform-service-society-government

"The government today outlines plans for major public service reforms to lift the aspirations of Britain's least ambitious 2.4 million children, predominantly white working-class boys in northern cities".

A deep-seated problem of low aspiration in specific communities has been found
in a Cabinet Office report to be published tomorrow. These communities, the
research shows, tend to have "more insular social networks, low population
mobility and a history of economic decline".

The report says the government has lacked a systematic "cultural or behavioural" approach to raising horizons in these communities to encourage children to do better at school and strive for more interesting jobs.

What a load of crap! If the government hadn't spent so much time, effort and money on making everyone else feel at fucking home in the UK, this wouldn't have happened in the first place!

Which leads me on to the next shambolic mess that NuLabour have created : Supersize Schools!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/3759163/Number-of-pupils-in-largest-schools-doubles-under-Labour.html

Figures show almost 500,000 pupils were in super-sized schools last year, compared to only 230,660 in 1997.

The rest of the disturbing figures are in the article.

Everyone, but everyone knows that small schools are better. Teachers get to know their students and students feel a part of something personal and important. These mega schools are devoid of personality and attended by a multitude of kids who are just numbers and statistics for NuLabours spinbook of fairytale exam results.

I am beginning to wonder if the crap education our kids are getting is NuLabours plan for voting ignorance and mass indoctrination.

Dumb Kids!

I have just finished watching Newsnight on the internet and one particular story caught my eye. Phil Woollyarse (smarmy git), discussing the merits of the new points system for immigration (as if we don’t have enough of them already). There’s a list of various shortages, most of which seem science orientated to me.

There’s quite a long list : Biological Scientists & Biochemists, Physicists, Geologists, Meteorologists, Civil Engineers, Chemical Engineers, Medical Practitioners, Dental Practitioners.. anyhow, you get the picture.

http://www.workpermit.com/uk/work_permit/occupations.htm

Upon perusing the online papers (I’d buy them, but walking around with The Daily Mail tucked under my arm in a Spanish town, is a dead giveaway of non integration and I do like to mingle). I discover that both The Times and The Independent are reporting on the failure of our current education system to teach Science properly.
What happened? I can only assume, our “dictatorship” in its efforts to convince everyone that their new community schools are preferable to the old Grammar/Secondary school system which I was educated in, was fiddling the figures (God forbid). They still, as I understand it, are desperate to abolish any Grammar schools which still exist.

“0%: That is what this year's top science pupils would have got in 1965!"

"High-flying GCSE students set for an A or A* pass scored zero points in a mock science exam which included old O-level questions. The two-hour exam, devised by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and named "The Five Decade Challenge", included questions from past science papers spread over the past 43 years.

The results published today showed the older the paper, the fewer marks the students scored. For instance, the average score for the 2005 paper questions was 35 per cent, compared to 15 per cent for the 1965 questions. Overall, the average score was 25 per cent but the RSC said some children scored no marks at all. The RSC called the test, taken by just over 1,300 of the country's brightest 16-year-olds, the first hard evidence of a "catastrophic slippage" in exam standards” (Independent)

QUESTIONS : Why have they fiddled the figures? If the government has put so much money and effort into schools, why haven’t the figures ACTUALLY improved? Are science teachers just crap teachers? Does the government interfere so much that they can’t just get on with the job of teaching? Do we have too many kids per teacher? Do we pander to the less able while the more talented are ignored?

MY OPINION : In my opinion comprehensive schools were the worse thing that happened to our education system. It was one of the very first “politically correct” policies I can remember disagreeing with.

In order for thick kids not to feel like complete moronic failures, we failed to give enough attention to the bright, gifted ones that worked hard and deserved the best of our teachers and resources.

Also seems ironic somehow that one of the reasons our schools are probably so bad is the fact that teachers have to try to communicate with immigrant children who can’t even speak English!

CONCLUSION : TIME FOR THE RETURN OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL where the brightest, more able of youngsters can be nurtured, or we will not be able to compete in a global market.