Reply to: Illegal Schools in England

[WTFH]

To be fair, it's the holiday companies victimising them.

Schools should go to having August off and different LEAs having a different two weeks in the preceding 8 weeks, except for GCSEs. Do normal school exams at the end of May then finish the curriculum in the remaining 6-7 weeks in June and July. Gives a 13 week window across three months for holidays, meaning that resorts get a better spread and prices can be adjusted across the piece to reflect it. Probably too logical that though.

Too logical, and then you get the parents who have kids in two different LEAs who are being victimised because the 2 weeks are different at each child's school. You can't win with parents.

[LondonManc]

Yes, and don't forget that parents are allowed to do what they want in taking their kids out of school at term time and the schools can't do anything about. Who cares about the teachers course plans or other pupils, as long as the little kid gets their 4 holidays to Disneyland every year then it's OK, otherwise they are being victimised.

To be fair, it's the holiday companies victimising them.

Schools should go to having August off and different LEAs having a different two weeks in the preceding 8 weeks, except for GCSEs. Do normal school exams at the end of May then finish the curriculum in the remaining 6-7 weeks in June and July. Gives a 13 week window across three months for holidays, meaning that resorts get a better spread and prices can be adjusted across the piece to reflect it. Probably too logical that though.

[WTFH]

Funny how it's illegal from school, yet mandatory in places of worship and homes.

Yes, and don't forget that parents are allowed to do what they want in taking their kids out of school at term time and the schools can't do anything about. Who cares about the teachers course plans or other pupils, as long as the little kid gets their 4 holidays to Disneyland every year then it's OK, otherwise they are being victimised.

[LondonManc]

Which you cannot get away with assuming inspectors do their job because teaching kids other races are evil is illegal....

Funny how it's illegal from school, yet mandatory in places of worship and homes.

[original PM]

Exactly,

So register with OFSTED and then legally teach the bigotry.

Which you cannot get away with assuming inspectors do their job because teaching kids other races are evil is illegal....

[LondonManc]

Anyone with an IQ above that of a concussed bee.

What's happened to Bee? That old beemer obviously didn't have airbags. Pray for Bee.

[NotAllThere]

WGAF. Seriously!

Anyone with an IQ above that of a concussed bee.

[PurpleGorilla]

Another of your posts I had to google!

According to the Oxford English Dictionary "irony" is "a figure of speech in which the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used".[7] Thus, lyrics such as "It's like rain on your wedding day" and "A traffic jam when you're already late" are not ironic.

WGAF. Seriously!

[PurpleGorilla]

But I thought these illegal schools were not OFSTED registered.

Exactly,

So register with OFSTED and then legally teach the bigotry.

[BrilloPad]

Neither does Alanis Morisette

Another of your posts I had to google!

According to the Oxford English Dictionary "irony" is "a figure of speech in which the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used".[7] Thus, lyrics such as "It's like rain on your wedding day" and "A traffic jam when you're already late" are not ironic.

[The_Equalizer]

A lack of school places? Just kidding!

That's an interesting and concerning point if true. We all know what can happen to social and ethnic groups cut off from mainstream society.

It is already is standard practice in mainstream schools in Northern Ireland. About 90% of schools are either Catholic or Protestant. If you don't head to university there's a good chance that you can spend your entire life without any meaningful interaction with 'the other side'. What's to say that something similar isn't occurring in England?

[DaveB]

As long as you inform OFSTED you can set up a school, and they can inspect and make sure you are not teaching the kids how to make suicide bombs.

Or teaching infants that anyone who doesn't share your religion is evil, or that homosexuality is a crime, or segregating classes on a gender basis or operating without the most basic health, safety and child welfare checks.

Three-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jewish children told 'the non-Jews' are 'evil' in worksheet produced by London school | Education News | News | The Independent
A look inside "divisive" Orthodox education in Stamford Hill - Hackney Post

[original PM]

As long as you inform OFSTED you can set up a school, and they can inspect and make sure you are not teaching the kids how to make suicide bombs.

But I thought these illegal schools were not OFSTED registered.

[PurpleGorilla]

Interesting question.

Who pays for these schools?

Does this mean if I was rich enough I could make my own school.

And call it the Jimmy Saville Academy.

It stinks because it means kids are off the register as far as social services and other welfare bodies are concerned which could easily lead to child exploitation and abuse....

As long as you inform OFSTED you can set up a school, and they can inspect and make sure you are not teaching the kids how to make suicide bombs.

[original PM]

Interesting question.

Who pays for these schools?

Does this mean if I was rich enough I could make my own school.

And call it the Jimmy Saville Academy.

It stinks because it means kids are off the register as far as social services and other welfare bodies are concerned which could easily lead to child exploitation and abuse....