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Date Posted: 16:38:13 03/13/11 Sun
Author: Gilly
Subject: Re: Bunions - and something more startling
In reply to: Ani 's message, "Re: Bunions - and something more startling" on 15:00:03 03/13/11 Sun

I'll go along with you on that issue Anni. There is a programme on at the moment called Jamie's Dream School. Jamie Oliver, better known as a chef, has started a school, only lasting for 8 weeks or thereabouts, where some of the best brains in the UK are teaching youngsters who failed to get the required number of GCSE's or CSE's or whatever they are called now, in fact some of them didn't get any qualifications at all, they are rude, disruptive, full of themselves but all say that they want to learn. Do they heck. When you get a 16 year old barracking the headmaster, who is a genuine headmaster who specialises in turning difficult schools around and shouting at him that he thinks he's better than them just because he's a head. Oe of the girls has been expelled from 5 schools for fighting and disruptive behaviour, and they are being given another chance but they aren't in the least bit grateful, or at least some of them aren't, but take it as their god-given right. They have people like Rolf Harris taking them for art, Simon Callow (one of our leading Shakespearean and film actors) for English, Sir Robert Winston (a very eminent scienist/surgeon) for science and bilogy and various others, oh yes Dailey Thomson for sport, but very few of them are showing the least inclination to learn from these people. I hated my senior school, loathed it with a passion as did the gang of women with whom I've have stayed friends since we all went there at age 11, as far as schools went it wasn't a particularly good one as the teachers were very narrow minded and the headmistress was exceedingly tunnel visioned but somehow or other we all managed to scrape up some decent O and A level passes there (our year had the reputation of being the worst the school had eve had, but it was quite some year before our other "achievement" was ever surpassed and that was for having the highest number of "O" level passes, and at decent grades, than had ever been achieved by any year previously and for about 30 years after that, so we must have learnt something from the teachers. Our little village school has a good reputation. There are 98 pupils there, and there certainly aren't 98 children of infant and junior school age in the village but they come from some of the surrounding vilages, even those with their own village schools, but because when a new housing estate was built in Thetford, about 7 or 8 miles down the road, and no provision was made for the extra school places that would be needed the authorities looked around and cast their eyes on our little school and decided, in their wisdom, to send the problem children here, the ones with so called AHD (I think that's what it's called, anyway it's the bairns who supposedly suffer from attention deficiency). Our little school doesn't tolerate disrptive children with AHD. They are taught manners, are disciplined and are expected to learn (Mary over the road is head of the Board of Governors as well as teaching certain things at the school, all on an unpaid basis, I think she specialises in IT and also holds classes for children who are frightened of dogs as she doesn't think any child should be). The children if they don't know a man's surname will call him Sir, they are actively discouraed from calling adults by their first names, and as she said yesterday when I asked her how many disruptive chldren they have in the school she said that there were some who would be if they could, but on the whole none, it isn't allowed. The local children won't allow the outsiders to misbehave either whilst at school because they love their little school. They have a little garden, and there is an array of wet weather wear for them to put on if it's their turn to be out in the garden and it's raining, small child size garden tools, several little "allotments" in their diddly school field, and the vegetables are carefully picked and presented to the school cook when ready and she then discusses with the children what sort of meal they would like cooked with their veg, and nearly all the children actually attend school meals. It's a shame that they then have to go to the local senior school and mix with undisciplined chldren.

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Re: Bunions - and something more startling -- Jack, 22:32:10 03/13/11 Sun
- Re: Bunions - and something more startling -- Ani, 22:55:28 03/13/11 Sun
  - Re: Bunions - and something more startling -- BB, 01:46:48 03/14/11 Mon