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Sunday, October 16, 2011
A massive shortage of school places is leading to emergency measures in order to accommodate ever increasing numbers of pupils.
Among areas hit hard and considering emergency measures are Bristol, Gloucester, Dorset, Reading, Salford, Hertfordshire, and Devon.
Bristol is looking at providing another 3,000 primary school places over the next 5 years.
Nationwide, measures including creating emergency classrooms from other buildings are being considered, as well as something interestingly described as "time phased working" for some schools.
Time phased working would see one group of pupils attend school in the mornings, another group of pupils attend school in the afternoons. Part time schooling in other words, not only leaving the child less time in education but also causing difficulties for many working parents.
The cause, as ever, is increasing population and birth rates. Official figures project that we will need an additional 540,000 primary school places nationally by 2018, based on an increase of 14% in the number of primary pupils.
It's a simple fact that, as population increases, either we acquire more resources or the resources we have are stretched further and further with people having less access to them.
In the case of schools we see the desperate need to build more, and the idea being mooted of part time schooling, one might even go so far as to say it is in fact educational rationing being suggested and implemented.
Behind the ever increasing are the twin banes of mass immigration and immigrant driven birth rates. It is not the indigenous British multiplying at such a huge rate that their offspring are outstripping available school places.
The cold and simple truth is that immigrants, and the resulting children born to immigrants/early generation descendants, are arriving far faster than the system can cope with.
The problem is compounded by ConDems cutbacks to budgets, but the fact is that even without the cutbacks we'd have reached crunch point at some time. The population is growing far too rapidly for the infrastructure to keep pace.
A population can neither expand indefinitely, nor expand at the rate which ours has been, without massive problems arising as the increased population demands the resources which are expected to be available in Britain.
Schools, on the front line because of huge birth rates among foreign groups, are the first to see it. We get the colonised, overcrowded classroom. The education of all children suffers, we are forced to look at emergency measures like turning a shop into a classroom or part time schooling just to cope with the massive increase in children.
As population increases - and it will continue to do so, there is no sign that ConDem will get a handle on immigration, nor that immigrant birth rates will drop to mirror those of the indigenous any time soon - we will see more and more of this.
Standards and availability of resources will drop, there is simply no other possible outcome. Our school system, and indeed our nation as a whole, simply cannot cope with the rapidly expanding population forced upon us by the artificially imposed factor of mass immigration.
Unless we halt this population expansion, initially by closing our borders and ending the flood of mass immigration inflicted upon us, we will see the situation continue to worsen.
It may not be a worry to MP's, hidden in their ivory towers and whose children are in some private school, but the rest of us will watch our children be educated in overcrowded, under-resourced classrooms and see our childrens educations suffer.
This is the situation in which mass immigration places us, watching as the education system collapses due to being over-burdened by a massive population increase.
It is our children who will lose out as a result, denied the chance for the best education we could possibly afford them.
Friday, September 30, 2011
"It is important to test the school’s response to individual needs by observing how well it helps all pupils to make progress and fulfil their potential, especially those whose needs, dispositions, aptitudes or circumstances require particularly perceptive and expert teaching and/or additional support."
"In any particular school, such pupils may include disabled pupils; boys; girls; groups of pupils whose prior attainment may be different from that of other groups; those who are academically more able; pupils for whom English is an additional language; minority ethnic pupils; gipsy, Roma and traveller children; pupils known to be eligible for free school meals; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual pupils; young carers, pupils from low income backgrounds and other vulnerable groups."
Ofsted guidance, taken from an excellent Daily Mail article on plans for schools to be rated based on how they improve the progress of vulnerable groups like gypsies and gay children.
One would say what about the majority, but since boys and girls are mentioned it seems they covered that base one way or another - although, what about trisexuals and isn't there officially a 3rd gender now?
The first and most obvious point is why the hell must we try and pigeonhole as many into some kind of minority category as possible. Is the goal to create a society where everyone is defined by their minority status in one respect or another?
Not to mention, how to decide which children are gay and lesbian - are they such because they have a bit of curiosity, are they going to be asked to come up in front the class and tell the teacher who they snogged at the weekend or interrogated as to whether they have a crush on a famous figure of the same sex?
Will we then categorise them forever, you are gay, you are bi, get used to it?
When I was at school, I had free school dinners, I was from what would be called a low income background, does that now make me a minority?
Why does a society which supposedly preaches that we're all identical, we're all equal, insist upon putting as many divides between everyone as they can and at as early an age as possible?
It gives voice to the lie that is the sham clothing of equality.
Who will suffer? With finite resources, special focus on the aptitudes or circumstances of one group will mean less resources spent on another group. We really don't need to ask which group/s that will be, it'll be groups who don't tick those special characteristics checkboxes.
Everything has become about slotting people into minority boxes, creating new minorities on demand, and about focusing attention there, it's political correctness gone mad.
How about a radical thought here - this is from the heart and after speaking to someone I know who was in the care system for most of their childhood - and treating kids like kids, encouraging them to learn, and not only giving a damn because they happen to be in the right category of 'needs'.
They don't want, or need, excuses made for them, or lower expectations because of their background, they want to be valued as more than a checklist exercise who will receive special attentions just because they can tick some boxes on the minority or slated for special treatment register, or receive no attention because the don't tick the right boxes.
In tandem with that, certain groups of kids don't want to be forced to the realisation that they are valued less because they do not happen to tick those boxes, they are not of the same importance.
All children are betrayed by being made into pawns in the diversity game, be it those who don't tick enough boxes and who are left to their own devices, or those who tick enough boxes to be made subject to special attentions and endless excuses.
Political correctness turns all children into paper exercises, it is quite possibly perhaps the most insulting and discriminatory system ever created.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
In a move which echoes the indoctrination more commonly found in Communist states, a report by MEP Jean Maria-Cavada proposes that compulsory "European Citizenship" classes should be forced upon children.
The plans, which would see children as young as five forced to sit through lessons into how to be a good European, and compelled to endure propaganda lessons in the benefits of the EU, bring sinister echoes of bygone times when youth were brainwashed into creating political change.
In the report it is suggested that European schools are promoted in Britain, and that we "encourage the emergence of European citizenship from a very young age".
As well as this, EU member states are asked to include teaching in their national syllabuses.
Of course, one doubts there will be warts and all lessons on the EU - kids will be subjected to a one side hymn of praise for the sprawling, corrupt superstate with the idea of brainwashing children to grow up supporting it.
With many adults already wising up to distinctly undemocratic and maniacally meddlesome nature of the EU, the plan smacks a little of desperation, a bid to capture the young before they know any better.
The sprawling monolith which is the EU, teetering as it is in the light of numerous recent problems such as the member nation debt crisis, seeks to dig its tentacles into every walk of life and national existence.
It will not balk at attempting to indoctrinate our children to become future generations of good little Europhiles, their opinions moulded from the moment they walk into the schoolyard.
Schools have already become places too much about indoctrination what with all the equalities and racism dogma hammered into kids, without them also becoming academies of propaganda for the European nightmare.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
"I cannot conceive of a school anywhere else in the world where the mother language is not allowed to be spoken on campus. These boys are segregated from Africa. If a boy loses contact with his culture, who is he?" - An American teacher, at a Kenyan school, in Ken Loaches banned Save the Children Fund.
Not having seen the film, I lifted the quote from the Daily Mail story on it, that just screamed out.
The documentary may date from 1969, but aren't those words prophetic of exactly what has happened in Britain today?
We have schools where the English language is a minority, drowned out under the weight of forty other foreign tongues.
There are schools which are more a part of Pakistan, or Bangladesh, than they are of England, where the white English face is a mere speck amidst a crowd of other peoples.
Is that English child, a minority in the schoolyard, not segregated from England?
Has he or she been forced to utterly lose touch with English culture?
Who is he or she?
How can that child be expected to know who they are when everything is a mass of clamouring, competing cultures, where England and the English language is but one minority among a crowd and drowned out by the louder cries of the diverse multitude?
Sadly we can conceive of such schools where the indigenous child is segregated from their own culture and country - we can see them all around England, they are the norm now.
How can the child schooled in that environment have an identity or a clue who they are, how can they be anything else other than a piecemeal construct from dozens of different, contradictory, and chaotic cultures?
That child has lost contact with his culture, and instead become a mirror for other cultures, left with no identity to call his or her own.
It is a travesty worth highlighting in a documentary that an African child was denied his heritage and culture, but it is being done to our children here today, every day, and nobody says a word.
This is the legacy of the failed multicultural experiment, children who are segregated from England, who have lost touch with their culture.
In the name of diversity they were betrayed, robbed of who they are and who they would grow up to be, truly segregated from the culture that was rightfully theirs.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Children as young as six are being forced to make the 30 mile round trip to Clevedon after 24 pupils were unable to get a place at a school in Portishead.
It is understood that 14 of the children are now reliant on taxis, with the bill picked up by North Somerset Council. It is assumed that in the remaining 10 cases parents are having to ferry their children to schools up to 15 miles away.
Quoted by the Western Daily Press, one parent who has to drive her six year old daughter all the way to Clevedon after failing to secure a school place in Portishead said that "understand there are a lot of children in the town that we unable to get a school place this year......The council is predicting a further shortage of primary school places in Portishead over the coming years...."
North Somerset Councils own figures reveal that there will be an estimated shortage of 103 school places by 2015 for the Gordano and Pill cluster area.
Full Story - http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/North-Somerset-school-crisis-costing-1-000-week/story-12910935-detail/story.html
Faced with cutbacks totalling £47million over four years, money which could have been spent on securing a local education for our children, it's worth noting that we found close to that amount - £46.1million - to spend on foreign aid to Somalia in 2010/11.
All of these cutbacks, school shortages which have left councils footing the bill for taxi fares, and parents having to drive thirty miles a day just to get their children to school, need never have happened if those at the top who are holding the purse strings put our nation first.
Britain suffers, and our people are put last, as the foreign aid spending spree continues unchecked.
