You do realise you have to delete the word to correct it? They sound and look the same. I'm not pressing the delete key, my house is freezing, it'll burn precious calories.
Are transfers still banned? I had a great one on my arm once, it lasted right through half term, but I got told off, when I went back to school with it on.
A good, well thought-out reply ... but unfortunately not to the question I posed. How many of the genuine difficulties you raised about your own specific job are directly related to the vast demographic changes over recent decades in Kingston Upon Hull?
Many, for starters an increase in migrants has meant different strategies are now required. It in no way affects the teaching of English children, however, as each child is catered for differently depending on their needs as a learner. Every lesson should be differentiated appropriately, so that even children who are low ability can access the learning. Note that difficulties and problems are not the same thing, a difficulty is not necessarily a negative, it just means we need a new way to do things. I fail to see how children coming from other countries means our school system is failing?
And, for the record, the question you asked initially was why a once fine network of schools was now not very good, it had nothing to do with demographics in Hull.
Are the children in your school 'streamed', or are all the classes 'mixed ability'? Do you not think that the 'higher ability' children in a 'mixed ability' class are going to progress less quickly (and less far) than those in a 'streamed' class? Does that still matter, these days?
Excellent. Glad you were able to learn something new, and so generously share it with the rest of us. Thank you!
I actually agree with that, in large part. I suspect, in fact, that if the '11 plus' qualification and the old grammar schools still existed, the vast changes in the societal demographic in Hull would have 'widened the gene pool', thereby raising the average standard. The destruction of the grammar schools (primarily by Tony Crosland) had the opposite effect.
