Wot no A grade innit

[RichardCranium]

Look in your yellow pages. There might be one or two people willing to give you remedial grammar and/or spelling lessons.

Yellow Pages

HTH

Dontcha just luuurve the Interweb F***-Up Fairy?

[NotAllThere]

There are lots of hard-line lefty educationalists in universities who are probably dead set against IBs, just like many (most?) state school teachers.

Tending to be sociology teachers and others of that ilk

Ha ha - you didn't even learn the difference between "less" and "fewer" what a joke.

Few did. Of any political persuasion.

My kids are in the international system. If you're good at exams and specialism, don't do it. Otherwise, it'll work well.

My boy is thinking of studying physics at university. For his Matura (wot gets him into uni), he's considering English literature. You couldn't do that in the English system.

[Cyberman]

And Thatcher created how many Grammar schools?

How many do you think DC would create?

Labour would close them all if they could. They are truly hopeless.

[BrilloPad]

Ah the irony.

Look in your yellow pages. There might be one or two people willing to give you remedial grammar and/or spelling lessons.

HTH

No doubt a few who could get your wife pregnant. Though not sure if that is appropriate for any woman that puts up with you.

Assuming you married a woman you married. Or did you marry your gay lover in a civil ceremony?

[BrilloPad]

Labour would close them all if they could. They are truly hopeless.

They could and they have not. Why not go back to insulting those whose skin colour you dont like?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Mrs Thatcher would've closed them all if she could. She was truly hopeless.

Fixed that up for you.

[Bagpuss]

Look at the facts. How many grammar schools did the Conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major create? Answer: none.
Going further back, how many grammar schools were turned into comprehensives under Edward Heath's government, when a certain Margaret Thatcher was education secretary? Answer: lots.

Indeed, Mrs Thatcher (as she then was) is understood to have signed away more grammar schools between 1970 and 1974 than any other education secretary before or since.

And let's go further back still. Who brought in comprehensive schools in the first place? It is often - but mistakenly - believed that comprehensive schools were introduced by Harold Wilson's Labour government in the mid-1960s.

In fact, the first comprehensive schools were opened during the 1950s and early 1960s, under Conservative governments.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/education/6712177.stm

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Danger facts alert - expect absence of CyberIdiot from this thread from now on.

[Bagpuss]

He only does anecdotal evidence, and even that appears to be fantasy

[Menelaus]

Interestingly, I just watched the programme on the OU and it's properly humbling.