tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post5115078464161565729..comments2024-03-29T10:44:12.904+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: Hands Off The PrivatesDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-66063663715380746392016-09-10T14:32:25.829+01:002016-09-10T14:32:25.829+01:00My grammar school years in the 50s and 60s were qu...My grammar school years in the 50s and 60s were quite amusing. The First Form were divided into classes A, B and C, no doubt based on 11 plus results, or I suspect now even social background.<br /><br />Apart from the German and Spanish teachers, who were excellent, the rest were a group of quite affable old geezers who amused us with their War stories, were often half pissed in class and set homework learning tables of Latin verbs, historical dates or some chapter from a pre-War chemistry textbook, which of course most of never did.<br /><br />The subsequent tests were marked by pupils in class with an astounding success rate of 9/10 and 10/10 which teacher never checked. It was all a bit of a game really, and a scramble to learn a few dictated notes in the Fifth Form to pass a few O levels.<br /><br />Good fun if you survived the bullying and the odd caning, but education it was not. Some of the school dinners were good though and in the Sixth Form there were even girls.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-31939072925202845772016-09-10T14:07:27.493+01:002016-09-10T14:07:27.493+01:00There is no Commons majority for this. We already ...There is no Commons majority for this. We already know that. Labour should force that to a vote next week.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-11952138856423941642016-09-10T12:11:10.097+01:002016-09-10T12:11:10.097+01:00Hitchens has long campaigned for this and been tol...Hitchens has long campaigned for this and been told it would never happen but even he is today surprised-and humbled-to see the Conservative Party adopt his entire education policy (and even his sound bites).<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com