Another Monday morning and more patronising pap from Comrade Clegg and his ever dwindling band of Lib Dems. You know him, the useless failure who managed to lose the Lib Dems seats at the general election but ended up as Deputy PM. I suppose that's what he calls equal opportunities in practice.
Today he's whingeing about free schools and profit. He thinks profit is socially divisive. He doesn't seem to understand that the only reason government has money is because people, somewhere, somehow make a profit. Then up pops the likes of Clegg to steal a chunk of it. How divisive is that? And what they can't thieve off us they go out and borrow, from other people who make money.
There's a difference between equality of opportunity and uniformity. Comprehensive education is sameness. The old system of selection was true equality of opportunity. Every child sat an exam at eleven and went to the school most suited to his/her talents, regardless of social background. Let's face it we're not all academic and we aren't all budding mathematicians. Fact. So why pretend we are all the same when it comes to education?
Let's take Clegg and his Lib Dems nonsense about equality to the logical conclusion. There should be at least one fat bald fifty year old playing for Manchester United, a sixteen year old girl and somebody with a disability.
But let's face it, Premier League football clubs are probably the most elitist employers in the country. Which is why it's the best league in the world. That's just logic.
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The old system of selection was true equality of opportunity. Every child sat an exam at eleven and went to the school most suited to his/her talents, regardless of social background.
Well that was the theory anway! It didn't work too well in my neck of the woods. In 2963, having passed my 11+ my mother applied for a place at my local grammar school. I was turned down and when she inquired as to the reason she was told it was because she was separated. To be honest I'm still fuming about it!
What we have now, however is infinitely worse discriminaion as no-one other than those that can afford private schools stands any chance of a first class education
I'll bet you're still fuming.
my father-in-law is still angry that his parents couldn't afford uniforms for him and his brother so he lost out too.
No system is perfect sadly and cases such as yours and my f-in-l should never have happened. Just plain wrong whichever way you look at it.
Heh, Just noticed I added a millenium to my schooldays. Time travel has arrived :-)
Oh aye. Bet my father-in-law does wish there was time travel, he's 90in January.
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