Keep failing pupils back - Page 3

WillowTheWhisp · 04-09-2007, 11:25

Silly me, it's not Bury, it's Bacup! I wonder why I put Bury? Anyway that doesn't make much difference to you does it?

The test is called 'colourimetry'. If your optician doesn't do it they should be able to put you on to someone who does.

Tealeaf · 04-09-2007, 12:02

I'm fully in agreement with this idea. Mind you, if this had been the policy for the last 30 years or so, half of the contributors to Accy Web would still be in year 6, primary school.

BERNADETTE · 04-09-2007, 12:18

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

I'm fully in agreement with this idea. Mind you, if this had been the policy for the last 30 years or so, half of the contributors to Accy Web would still be in year 6, primary school.

It looks like you would be one of them. Do you get a kick out of throwing insults about? For some people this is the only contact they have with others, I don't think they want to read stupid comments all the time

Tealeaf · 04-09-2007, 12:21

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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

It looks like you would be one of them. Do you get a kick out of throwing insults about? For some people this is the only contact they have with others, I don't think they want to read stupid comments all the time

You won't get any karma for making remarks like that, you know.

BERNADETTE · 04-09-2007, 12:25

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

You won't get any karma for making remarks like that, you know.

When I can spend it in the shops I will let that fact bother me, until then I really don't care.

jackyalex · 04-09-2007, 13:03

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Silly me, it's not Bury, it's Bacup! I wonder why I put Bury? Anyway that doesn't make much difference to you does it?

The test is called 'colourimetry'. If your optician doesn't do it they should be able to put you on to someone who does.

thanks willow i will look it up, yes bury and bacup still too far away for me lol

yerself · 04-09-2007, 14:42

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

I'm fully in agreement with this idea. Mind you, if this had been the policy for the last 30 years or so, half of the contributors to Accy Web would still be in year 6, primary school.

Just what I was thinking but I knew you'd say it for me.

Lilly · 04-09-2007, 15:25

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Originally Posted by Less

Keep failing pupils back - Tories

So, the Conservatives propose that to improve literacy in secondary schools children found in their last year at Junior school to be struggling will be kept back for a year in a bid to ensure these children catch up.

Excuse me? But I thought our children started school at the age of 5 and moved on to secondary school at 11 this surely gives the teachers at the junior school 6 years, (age 11 minus age 5=6 for anyone that should have been kept back), during which time they (teachers), should have the chance to notice that little Sarah is struggling with her reading etc. Therefore shouldn't more emphasis be placed on bringing her up to speed before the final year?

Also, keeping a reluctant 12 year old back could cause disruption of the classroom for the struggling 11 year old that might have been passed as fit for progress to the secondary school if only their lessons hadn't been disturbed by the actions of some older children.

I wonder how that would work then. At the moment classes are limited to 30 pupils so what will happen if they keep 3 pupils back a year and then they've got 30 more coming up into the class? They'll end up with bigger classes depending on how many they keep back? It's against the law to have more than 30 in a class isn't it?

WillowTheWhisp · 04-09-2007, 15:33

I actually remember it happening when I was at the High School. A couple of girls were kept back a year. It didn't happen often but the extra person was just absorbed into the class because there wasn't all the hoohah about numbers like there is these days.