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Kids taught in a school corridor.

Captain Shaw

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Schoolchildren have been forced to have lessons in a 4ft-wide corridor because of government spending cuts.
The reception pupils are being taught in among bags, coats and shoes because the building is so derelict the classrooms are out of bounds
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And each day the pupils at Richard Lee Primary School, Coventry, eat their packed lunches sat cross-legged on the floor as there isn't enough space for any furniture.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...an-theres-money-repair-flooded-classroom.html
Sorry about the link, but when I went to find the story on line this was the only one that came up.
I don't give a shit how much debt we're in, no ones kids should be taught on the floor in corridors .
What I find really depressing is that its not even front page news, I'll admit I could have gone to Eaton and still ended up as one of life's failures but even I know if we are to compete in the world market we need decent schools.
 
Shazam! said:
Well, y'know, people will vote Tory...
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It reminds me of my schools days, where when they where made to knock down a building because it was too dangerous, they decided the school dining hall would make a great class room.
Because having to listen to all the noise while they set up and pack away the dinner things does wonders for a child education. :rolleyes:
 
Sadly this doesn't surprise me. Thank heavens that the funding and planning for the new building of my youngest son's school had already gone through the system and the new government couldn't pull it. This school was built in 1930 and is literally falling to pieces. When I worked there as a classroom assistant a few years ago I often sat with kids on the floor in the corridor when I had to take a small group of kids out of the classroom for extra teaching because there was nowhere else to take them. Small wonder that the last Ofsted report was only satisfactory, despite having some really good teachers at the school. Who can teach or learn to a high standard in such conditions?
 
^ Heh. Actually, I lived in Birmingham for 18 years, about 20 miles from Coventry, so I have extensive personal experience of what an awful place it is :lol:
 
macloudt said:
Sadly this doesn't surprise me. Thank heavens that the funding and planning for the new building of my youngest son's school had already gone through the system and the new government couldn't pull it. This school was built in 1930 and is literally falling to pieces. When I worked there as a classroom assistant a few years ago I often sat with kids on the floor in the corridor when I had to take a small group of kids out of the classroom for extra teaching because there was nowhere else to take them. Small wonder that the last Ofsted report was only satisfactory, despite having some really good teachers at the school. Who can teach or learn to a high standard in such conditions?
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The seconary school I went too was being built when Margaret thatcher got in.
All worked was stopped ,when I went there in the 90s it still had a whole building missing and 4 classrooms with missing walls.:lol:
And the council would spend god know how much each year trying to stop the roof from leaking.
 
Pingfah said:
^ Heh. Actually, I lived in Birmingham for 18 years, about 20 miles from Coventry, so I have extensive personal experience of what an awful place it is :lol:
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I lived in Weston-super-Mare, my husband's home town, for 9 years. Beat that in the hell-on-earth stakes. ;)
 
PKTrekGirl said:
Holdfast said:
Serial thread killer said:
Kids taught in a school corridor.
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I'm surprised and shocked to my very core to learn of this...

... I didn't think education still occurred in state schools. :p :D
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Well, as you can see, in the US, the Department of Education has determined that teaching these little shits is no longer worth it:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/department-of-education-study-finds-teaching-these,18461/
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:lol:

This all reminds me of a exchange in (I think) Yes, Prime Minister, where Sir Humphrey points out that the point of compulsory school education was to keep children away from the corrupting influence of their parents for at least part of the day, that the comprehensive state system existed solely to abolish pay differentials between teachers at moderns vs grammars, and the reason the school-leaving age was raised to 16 was to keep the youth unemployment figures artificially low.

I miss that programme; so much truth in its jest.
 
That's actually a really nice hallway. It has a carpet rather than just a hard floor. Obviously, they should fix the regular rooms, but I've certainly seen worse classroom environments.
 
Snaploud said:
That's actually a really nice hallway. It has a carpet rather than just a hard floor. Obviously, they should fix the regular rooms, but I've certainly seen worse classroom environments.
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And people say all those billions we spend on education is just wasted... :lol:
 
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