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Originally Posted by Mr K
And the alternative is? 5 years of Brexit mayhem?
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Yes. Because that's what we voted for. You lost, get over it already
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Tory party fighting against itself?
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Pot. kettle?
Not going to happen
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The rich getting more obscenley rich and no safety for the poor,
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The more the rich earn, the more tax they pay. the top ten percent pay forty percent of all tax already
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with the end of the welfare state?
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Not going to happen
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Your daydream has become a nightmare.
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My daydream, if you bothered to read my post, was that you get your wish, Corbyn et al drive this country into the ground and then we press the magic rewind switch to show you just how rubbish your labour party really is
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(oh, we might get Fox hunting and grammar schools back so that's progress I guess...)
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On the subject of Grammar Schools:
The world loves our grammar school system
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Regarding international evidence, there’s an elephant in the room that our educational experts, wilfully or otherwise, refuse to acknowledge.
What’s the highest performing country on all international tests? Singapore, of course. What do the educational experts and the BBC put this down to? They invest more in their teachers, of course. No one mentions the feature of the Singaporean education system that cries out to be noticed: it’s highly selective. What’s more, it’s explicitly modelled on the erstwhile grammar-school system of England and Wales that Mrs May is attempting to revitalise here.
Educational experts condemn selection as leading to less equitable education systems. That’s simply not true. Andreas Schleicher, head of education at OECD (which produces the international assessments that Singapore excels on) praises that country as being not only the most successful education system in the world but also claims that it achieves ‘excellence without wide differences between children from wealthy and disadvantaged families’. There is plenty of data which shows precisely that. On indicators of fairness to children from lower socioeconomic status, Singapore is as fair as, or fairer than, countries which don’t have selection.
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