Sorry to have stirred things up by having a contrasting opinion, it's based on experience but I'll keep to the gardening threads and hope for world peace and enlightenment in the meantime, didn't mean to inflame things.
Still happier staying out of it @punkdoc but thanks 😀 repairing greenhouse panels to save seedlings stock.... wish me luck, rain and wind, shall we say, not on my side!!!
Put out. 2 full washloads, lovely sunny,windy day not a cloud. Said "shower" mid day. Got stuck in traffic, absolutely soaked getting washing in, duvet cover so wet couldn't get it of the line. Have had to spin it.
I was always in the state education system in the 50's and 60's and it was fine as far as I could tell. The problem came not with the attempt at abolishing Grammar schools but with the view that children of all abilities should be taught not just in the same school but in the same class. Children, just like adults, have differing abilities and learning speeds so lumping them all together serves nobody.
I would certainly abolish religious schools as they are more divisive than any other form.
I too had my education in the state system ... I didn't say that children with differing abilities should be lumped together ... just that their parents' wealth or lack of it should not determine the education their children receive ... or who they are educated with.
Dove, I wasn't suggested that you said different abilities should be lumped together, but that was the reality at many schools. Thankfully that experiment has since been binned as it destroyed chances for many more able kids in comprehensive schools.
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I'll have your snow @janetfoss. Always preferable to the wind and rain, although we now have some sun.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
I can no longer agree Voltaire either, although I always did. Far too much hate speech, trying to deny others the right to existence.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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Dove, I wasn't suggested that you said different abilities should be lumped together, but that was the reality at many schools. Thankfully that experiment has since been binned as it destroyed chances for many more able kids in comprehensive schools.