observer Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 How should school places be allocated? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgusted Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 Catchment area is fine, if someone wants to move to be in a catchment area, someone else has to move out. It's not like they're artificially increasing the housing stock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 Originally posted by observer: ...... after all, a school is just a building - it's the staff that count. Really Must be different rules where you live Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Kennedy Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 If there is a rollover do you get a place at Eton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 Dismayed, are you saying that a building contributes more to an education than a teacher? :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 Yep.... apparently it does Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted March 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 So, on that basis Diz, if ALL schools are built to an identical design, we've solved the problem of good/bad schools?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted March 6, 2008 Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 I assume your talking about where a child will go as opposed to a college student?? We have the same problem here - it gets to be a nightmare, everyone wants a choice to send their child to the school they want them in but most don't want to be responsible for getting the child there and home. The price of busing has gone sky high! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted March 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2008 Transfer the teachers en masse, from one school to the next, on a rota basis; that would really confuse those middle class types jockeying for position! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 Originally posted by observer: So, on that basis Diz, if ALL schools are built to an identical design, we've solved the problem of good/bad schools?! Yep... it appears so. You can't expect children to receive an excellent level of education in a older design building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 Do I detect a touch of sarcasm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 ........but you would get a better level of education from an older design teacher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted March 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 I wasn't aware that Eton and Harrow were NEW buildings?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 Maybe not but do they seriously offer the same level of education that a brand new building could ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted March 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 According to the perception of those who can afford "the best" - yes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 And also according to the perception of those who say they know "best" Time will tell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted March 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 Errm, results are telling - Eton/Harrow etc produce our ruling establishment! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 What we need is fewer education experts. After all it's the experts that have destroyed most of the school system over the last 50 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 AMEN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 AGREED.... Major decisions about schools should be taken out of the hands of local authorities, where more often than not cost over-rides education needs. Decisions should be made by people who actually understand what they are doing and the consequesnces of their actions. By the way Obs I agree it is the teachers who are the most important I was being a tad sarky..(not to you but in general Stockton Heath Primary was way above average too and performing well in a 100 year old building and yet some dim wits decided to approve blowing ?6 million on building a new school on the same grounds and knocking the perfectly good existing one down.... Why, cos old buildings are not fit for 21st century education Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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