The Blood is The Life 23-05-2012
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miss_s_b- New Statesman - Labour’s unending spite towards the Lib Dems is self-defeating
- FactCheck: Is regulation to blame for unemployment? | The FactCheck Blog
You go, factcheck :)
- Born poor, stay poor: the scandal of social immobility
- The sky's the limit: an extraordinary group of sky diving servicemen
Inspiring!
- The Potter Blogger: The corruption at the heart of our political system
This is a wonderful, wonderful post and you should all read it. And then get very very angry.
- Social Mobility, Public Schools and Oxbridge « Jazz Hands, Serious Business
Like Dave, I went to a fee-paying school on the hard work of my parents. I fully agree with this: "I think that the public school environment had a lot to do with my liberalism. Being surrounded by kids who largely had very few concerns about their future life in term-time, then going home to my rural village and drinking cheap lager on the Scout Hut roof with council house kids who were struggling to get menial employment gave me a sense of perspective. Seeing some of the biggest vindictive bullies appointed to authority positions like Prefect and Head Boy, giving them more undeserved power to torment, made me very wary of unearned power."
- Caron's Musings: Lib Dems see off Beecroft Report
Not just linking this because of what she says about me
- CIA, FBI Spy Gear Declassified For Public In New, Short Exhibition (PHOTOS)
- Factcheck: Have 1 in 5 households really never worked?
Short answer? This is bullshit
- Legos, spaceships, breasts. « Kate Bachus
Another post in the ongoing debate about girly lego. Which reminds me, need to get more Lego for Holly.
- BBC News - Q&A;: Anti-social behaviour powers
YAY They're getting rid of ASBOs! Oh SHIT look what they're replacing them with... Somebody light the LibDemSignal!
- BBC News - More than 87,000 racist incidents recorded in schools
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- BBC News - Vince Cable a socialist, says No 10 adviser Beecroft
Bwaaaahahahahahahaha
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Date: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 09:26 am (UTC)The intense pressure to achieve levels of bare adequacy. Yet another of the factors behind my very easy decision to leave teaching. For the record, that's not just Peckham. A school I interviewed at in leafy Solihull even had a poster campaign aiming to get the school's overall pass rate to 40% 5 Cs (not even the lofty prospect of an A*). I turned down that job (I'm not even sure why they offered me the post, given that they were no longer offering GCSE language courses). In making the 5 A*-C pass rate a KPI, the teaching profession got a green light to take their foot off the gas for any student with the faintest spark of talent.