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The British are "special"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11287193 0810 Ofsted says nearly half a million children in England, labelled with special needs have been wrongly diagnosed. Jo Shuter, headteacher at Quintin Kynaston School, a secondary school in North London and John Bangs, former assistant general secretary of the NUT discuss the reasons for the high numbers. 0856 At least on-in-five five school children in England are now classed as having special educational needs (SEN), according to Ofsted. Brian Lamb, who chaired an inquiry last year into whether parents had confidence in the SEN system, gives his reaction to the claims..  http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8996000/8996159.stm Special Needs Children should go to special schools. "Special" is a term of insult, now, is it not? A bit like "spastic". It is of course a middle class racket to give their children access to the c

Montaigne, Grammar and Dangerously Dumbed-Down Britain

Reporter Tom Bateman spoke to the journalist and author Simon Heffer, who argues that most pupils have been left with "nothing but a random and often erroneous understanding of the components of language". http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8983000/8983140.stm "Should children be taught a comprehensive understanding of English grammar?" The Today Programme asks. "The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar." Only in Dangerously Dumbed-Down Britain is such an obvious question even asked, and discussed "seriously" by the supposedly most intelligent programme in the UK.

Girls! Go to university and have a 1 in 4 chance of becoming a lapdancer!

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/one-in-four-lap-dancers-has-a-degree-study-finds-2063252.html Do they have Lapdancing Studies at British universities?  I would be surprised if these endlessly create university course "producers" hadn't already thought of it.  If so, can male students study it too? If not, why not?  (Guys, if they say no, you can sue them for sex discrimination.) Let's keep throwing taxpayers' money away to create useless degrees, useless graduates and a more basket case Britain!  You know it makes sense!