Will be interesting to see if that trend continues in 2 years' time when the new GCSE grading system comes in (no more A*-G, instead 9 - 1 grades). About to start my 5th year of teaching in secondary schools and have to say the constantly moving goalposts from the government are as frustrating for the teachers as they are for the students.
The thing I particularly like is that 9 is the highest grade, 1 the lowest. It's almost as if they know there needs to be space for grade inflation. Cynical, me? I just wish the last ten governments had left education alone. I don't care what their politics were; gradual improvement rather than radical overhaul was what education needed. The problem is each new minister feels the need to justify their existence so in comes a major change every time. Vin
I rarely rise to politics on here but if you reread my post I was deliberately neutral. Very deliberate. I wasn't trying to make a political point at all, just a comment about the way government works. I almost didn't post because I knew it would end up political and someone would make it an anti-Gove punchbag. It took three minutes. Well done. Vin
Well excuse me for expressing an opinion, Vin, but you didn't notice that I was actually agreeing with your substantive point, which was that all governments make a mess when they try and interfere with education. Regardless of his political party, Gove was possibly the worst Education Secretary of the last 30 years. That's not a political point, just a realistic one.
I have always thought this was weird. In my head 1 is always better than 9. I suppose because 1st is better than 9th. It's like saying E is better than A.
Met Fatletiss for a nutritious and healthy beverage last night before the game. An interesting moral point came up. We were discussing music, Ska in particular and Fat let me know that he had a terrific album. This is where the conundrum comes in. The band is no longer in existence, so is it OK for him to make me a copy of his CD? I'm not a fan of piracy and neither of us was clear on the morals. I know there are people on here with a view on music piracy. What's your position on this? Vin
Very interesting. Strictly speaking it doesn't matter about the band not existing as the royalties go to the songwriters rather than the band. Personally however I think making a copy for a friend of a CD you have bought is far less piratical than downloading music off so-called free sites. LTL might say differently but I can't see a huge moral problem with it. I remember years ago seeing the folk duo Show of Hands in Salisbury and buying their latest CD afterwards. The CD came with a free blank cassette printed with the CD artwork, with the explanation that the band knew that people would copy the CD, but they wanted whoever got the copy to have the artwork as well!
Morgan Schneiderlin is dating a shop assistant from an Adidas shop. Different to the norm, I suppose! http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag..._-TheSun-thesun-_-20150821-_-News-_-225715958
I really couldn't watch something like that. I've seen too many bad films and usually wafer thin plots are at the base of them. One I only got round to a couple of months ago was Interstellar, which is very good indeed, but it is fundamentally sad. Kon-tiki, on the other hand and another I watched around the same time, is uplifting and superb.
So my costume for Comic Con in Bournemouth is nearly ready. I'm going as Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service please log in to view this image
Twice today I hears My views on music piracy are not important. My views on ska however.... THIS is the best ska album (3rd wave ska-core) IMO please log in to view this image
Nah, I'm fine with the odd copy/mixtape whatever. That's a low level standard thing, and the album has been purchased. It's the multiple rips on torrent sites from something and the absolute attitude of "I can get all my music free, why should I pay anything" that gets my goat. Chilcs is correct re existence of band not being relevant though, the writers will all still get a PRS cheque popped through their letterbox once a quarter regardless.
