Reply to: You want to learn - tough

[mudskipper]

as they have steadily pushed up the capacity by holding lessons in the corridor I'm not entirely sure you are being serious?

Wasn't being serious or joking - just interpreting the stats in a different way.

[formant]

You want to learn - tough

Every school should ideally be slightly undersubscribed to enable people to move.

You also have people moving away in most places though.
Moving children into the upper classes is usually not the issue though, at least around here it's not. It's new reception classes that are overflowing. When moving my older stepdaughter from one school to another (into year 3) no school was full. It was the little one, only starting out who had issues getting into the better schools.

I find this report doesn't illustrate the real issue very well. In most places it's not a case of kids not getting into any school, it's about them not getting into the more popular ones. Well tough, I wouldn't call that a problem as long as there are local alternatives. It's when an entire region is 'full', when I start to find it worrying, but there's not much evidence of that so far. It's pretty obvious that the 'better', more popular schools would tend to be oversubscribed. That in itself doesn't say much about the shortage of resources.

[vetran]

"More than a fifth (20.4%) of primaries are full, or over capacity."

Or

Nearly 80% of primaries are undersubscribed.

as they have steadily pushed up the capacity by holding lessons in the corridor I'm not entirely sure you are being serious?

[d000hg]

"More than a fifth (20.4%) of primaries are full, or over capacity."

Or

Nearly 80% of primaries are undersubscribed.

Every school should ideally be slightly undersubscribed to enable people to move.

[formant]

"More than a fifth (20.4%) of primaries are full, or over capacity."

Or

Nearly 80% of primaries are undersubscribed.

Hehe, way to over-inflate a 'problem'...

[mudskipper]

"More than a fifth (20.4%) of primaries are full, or over capacity."

Or

Nearly 80% of primaries are undersubscribed.

[TheFaQQer]

Keep the kids at home and anaesthetise them with ciggies and cider and Sky Sports, same as their parents. Most of 'em will never get jobs ever anyway, and will just be dole scroungers, so why bother educating them?

EDIT: the chavvy ones anyway. Nice middle class kids whose parents are seeing house price increases should obviously be educated

I didn't realise that Iain Duncan Smith posted on CUK

[Platypus]

or Logan's Run ... but with kids running




EDIT: survival of the fittest, death to the fattest

[shaunbhoy]

Most of 'em will never get jobs ever anyway, and will just be dole scroungers, so why bother educating them?

I think this problem needs a solution. Something Final perhaps.....

[Platypus]

what do we do?

Keep the kids at home and anaesthetise them with ciggies and cider and Sky Sports, same as their parents. Most of 'em will never get jobs ever anyway, and will just be dole scroungers, so why bother educating them?

EDIT: the chavvy ones anyway. Nice middle class kids whose parents are seeing house price increases should obviously be educated

[TheFaQQer]

Not everywhere. We don't have enough school spaces to fill the gap. Some people moving into newer estates are going to be in for one hell of a surprise when they see the schools that have spaces.

A few years back, we struggled to get 24 into our reception class - now it's 60 every year.

School was built to take 420, opened taking 300 and this year we've passed 400. This past couple of years has been a "bulge" year in terms in intake throughout the area.

[eek]

Weird, schools are closing due to falling class sizes round here.

Not everywhere. We don't have enough school spaces to fill the gap. Some people moving into newer estates are going to be in for one hell of a surprise when they see the schools that have spaces.

[TheFaQQer]

Shortfall of school places to reach quarter of a million | Education | The Guardian


muppets!

what do we do?

Privatisation of the education system is the only way forward, surely?

[Support Monkey]

Shortfall of school places to reach quarter of a million | Education | The Guardian


muppets!

what do we do?

Shirley this is down to the influx of eastern Europeans, of course the romanians won't send theirs to school cos they will be to busy twocking cars and muggin old ladies

[hyperD]

Shortfall of school places to reach quarter of a million | Education | The Guardian


muppets!

what do we do?

Start another series of Britain's Got Talent to distract the masses from the inevitability of economic ruin and the coming Zombie Apocalypse?