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She So you admit it was her choice not to take up / formalise her Bangladeshi citizenship. When did courts start to decide political issues and not legal ones? And no, she is not a British citizen. She was but is no longer.

Admit? What is this, a court of law. To repeat myself, she had provisional Bengali citizenship until the age of 21. The ECHR should go fuck themselves.

59 years ago for me. Class sizes were about 30, total pupils probably only about 380. Never had chips or hot dogs on the school meal menu.

I do recognise that some people start to achieve academically later in life. One of the things I liked about my job was being able to give people opportunities in later life to get some additional, and in some cases higher / degree level qualifications. At the grammar I attended back in the...

Smaller class sizes do help, although the results from a Chemistry A level class of 10 were less than impressive. Having said that, one went on to have a stellar career and ended up with a Damehood.

That’s exactly what happened to me - in a grammar school - as I “switched off” because of having to wait for others to catch up. I went from consistently in top 3 of the class to failing the O level.

My parents weren’t in the least wealthy - definitely working class. I had no coaching and was 10 when I passed my 11+. You have identified potential benefits for lower ability children but absolutely none for higher ability children. This is what always seems to happen in any such discussion...

I bought the 2022 Private Eye Annual from a local charity shop today, and found this on page 2. Who would have thought that, under a Labour government, they would be able to recycle this so quickly as page 2 of the 2025 publication.

Thanks for making me feel so much — better? 🙁 Sounds like you would have benefitted, I’m sure I would have sunk without trace in a secondary school.

She has Bengali parents and had provisional Bengali citizenship up to the age of 21 which has lapsed as she did not take it up - her choice on the face of it. She has made herself stateless.

I guess the question is does the “damage” done to the smart by not having a selective process outweigh the damage done to the less intellectually gifted? There were times as a grammar school pupil when I felt held back in maths by those who weren’t quite up to it - to the extent that I lost...

Has she applied for Bangladeshi citizenship? If she is entitled to it and hasn’t applied, her statelessness is her decision.

Some victims of her pals of course ended up with the status of not having an actual head.

Shmmeee has already said that is likely to be the case.

Does that mean that NOT pulling bright/middle class kids out into their own school hurts/ hinders them? Logic would suggest that to be the case.

In other news, Netflix are to announce a new political documentary featuring the Labour government entitled “Back to the 70s”.

Obviously asking the wrong person.

Does the fact it’s years old make Starmer any less of a c**t?

Parker ( I had already Googled)

Not a million miles from what I said. Well, in the same city at least.