Do you want to discuss boring politics? (103 Viewers)

[chiefdave]

I thought they were getting eleventy billion from the VAT?

This is literally why a lot of parents of SEND kids sent them to private schoo while working their arses off and making sacrifices.

Doesn’t seem a great solution that 1 in 5 children, and rising, has to go to private school. Although the stats don’t seem to back that up. The percentage of SEND kids in public and private education seems to be roughly the same.

And I’m sure the parents of non-SEND kids aren’t going to be too happy if they’re paying a small fortune for private education and having a huge percentage of classes being SEND kids.

Unless you’re suggesting some sort of segregation and all the SEND kids being sent off on their own which surely then worsens their prospects of being able to cope when they enter the workplace.

 

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[Ccfcisparks]

I still think school examinations should mainly practice based and not time pressured.

I would have panic attacks the morning of exams I feared them that much.

 

[Nick]

Doesn’t seem a great solution that 1 in 5 children, and rising, has to go to private school. Although the stats don’t seem to back that up. The percentage of SEND kids in public and private education seems to be roughly the same.

And I’m sure the parents of non-SEND kids aren’t going to be too happy if they’re paying a small fortune for private education and having a huge percentage of classes being SEND kids.

Unless you’re suggesting some sort of segregation and all the SEND kids being sent off on their own which surely then worsens their prospects of being able to cope when they enter the workplace.

I just said that's why some people do it, which they do.

 

[shmmeee]

I still think school examinations should mainly practice based and not time pressured.

I would have panic attacks the morning of exams I feared them that much.

This is never happening now we’ve got ChatGPT. Everywhere will go back to written exams as the main assessment method.

 

[shmmeee]

I just said that's why some people do it, which they do.

Seemingly at about the same rates as anyone else, so about 3%. Clearly it’s an important matter for you personally, but in reality it’s a tiny fringe matter when talking about this stuff.

 

[Nick]

Seemingly at about the same rates as anyone else, so about 3%. Clearly it’s an important matter for you personally, but in reality it’s a tiny fringe matter when talking about this stuff.

I know a few parents who did it for that reason so I can comment. That's all.

 

[shmmeee]

I know a few parents who did it for that reason so I can comment. That's all.

That’s fair, just saying that it’s very much a fringe issue for parents who can afford that. The vast majority need proper SEN care from the state.

 

[shmmeee]

Some good news. No doubt someone will tell me they hate trees. Think this is from Boris’ time but not 100%

A year of growth: tree planting rates hit their highest level in over 20 years – Forestry Commission

News and updates from the Forestry Commission

forestrycommission.blog.gov.uk