Alexandole Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

MillionMilesAway said:
That was a bizarre thing to say.
It's difficult to know what point he thought he was making - obviously it's the mixing that is the issue, and that only happens because the schools are open...
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He wasn't making a point. He was just saying something vaguely related to the question, not answering it. He doesn't have a clue and his majority means he doesn't give a shit. Talking bollocks is his specialist subject.
 
My grandson in year 10 missed 6 weeks schooling in the autumn term not including scheduled half term and Christmas holidays.

In October two kids in his year tested positive so the whole year was sent home to self isolate. When the two weeks were up it was half term holiday but the return to school was extended by a further week, making 3 weeks missed.

In December a kid in his year, who takes the same school bus, tested positive so the entire year plus anyone else on the school bus was sent home to self isolate for two weeks. At the end of the two weeks the school finished a week early for the Christmas holidays, making another 3 weeks missed.

Now he'll miss a 7th week in January because the school will remain closed for another week's extended holiday.

In the meantime he's been set work by his teachers who encouraged the kids to email them if they get stuck. When he did get stuck he emailed the teacher for clarification and didn't get a reply.
 
laserblue said:
My grandson in year 10 missed 6 weeks schooling in the autumn term not including scheduled half term and Christmas holidays.

In October two kids in his year tested positive so the whole year was sent home to self isolate. When the two weeks were up it was half term holiday but the return to school was extended by a further week, making 3 weeks missed.

In December a kid in his year, who takes the same school bus, tested positive so the entire year plus anyone else on the school bus was sent home to self isolate for two weeks. At the end of the two weeks the school finished a week early for the Christmas holidays, making another 3 weeks missed.

Now he'll miss a 7th week in January because the school will remain closed for another week's extended holiday.

In the meantime he's been set work by his teachers who encouraged the kids to email them if they get stuck. When he did get stuck he emailed the teacher for clarification and didn't get a reply.
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And in other news a 3 year old kid in America... has suffered a life changing stroke after testing positive for Covid19.

Kids don't 'miss' learning mate , they miss a schedule set by a government. We learn all our lives.

Don't let it worry you.
 
Ifwecouldjust....... said:
Kids don't 'miss' learning mate , they miss a schedule set by a government. We learn all our lives.
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This is so true.

My birthday is right at the end of August, i was always the youngest in my year all through school. I started Primary school 6 months after everyone else in my class. Those missed 6 months didn't mean everyone was 6 months ahead of me, because whilst the kids were at school and i was at home i was still learning, i just wasn't learning what the government cirricullum was at that time.

I have now left school and i am an old ****, but i learn something new everyday. What the Governments idea of learning is doesn't necessarily fit with what kids want to learn anyway.

If they really cared about kids education, there is an easy answer. Make WIFI free to the whole country and give every kid a free laptop. Then a kid can learn not just school work, but whatever they want to learn as well. It may even help increase the reading skills of kids because they can read what they like rather than what the education minister wants them to read. Because what you read is not as important as being able to read and that does not matter if you read War and Peace or Whizzer and Chips.
 
Theres a lot more to school than what you can learn with a free laptop and wifi, or even reading a book (which I had to force my kids to do every day between April and August and they hated every second of it).
 
Rascal said:
This is so true.

My birthday is right at the end of August, i was always the youngest in my year all through school. I started Primary school 6 months after everyone else in my class. Those missed 6 months didn't mean everyone was 6 months ahead of me, because whilst the kids were at school and i was at home i was still learning, i just wasn't learning what the government cirricullum was at that time.

I have now left school and i am an old ****, but i learn something new everyday. What the Governments idea of learning is doesn't necessarily fit with what kids want to learn anyway.

If they really cared about kids education, there is an easy answer. Make WIFI free to the whole country and give every kid a free laptop. Then a kid can learn not just school work, but whatever they want to learn as well. It may even help increase the reading skills of kids because they can read what they like rather than what the education minister wants them to read. Because what you read is not as important as being able to read and that does not matter if you read War and Peace or Whizzer and Chips.
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But but .... thats socialism
 
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