Children are being 'failed on a grand scale'

Could you name one possibility?

Great. Cannot even supply an example of when cuts would bring an improvement.

Doubtful, they're pretty bad already, and I went to one in a good area. Cutting funding won't make much difference in my opinion.

Yes they do, and when they do, everyone has a go at people for 'demonising the working class' being 'snobby and elitist' and so on, but when you're mocking "middle class hipsters' no one says anything?! It's exactly the same.

And not really, I wear what I want, I don't care if other people in a similar situation wear it. If I like it I'll wear it, simple.

If coupled with the removal of being fined for expulsions, we wouldn't have the funding to provide education for the kids who should be expelled, and therefore they would be out and not left in the school to disrupt everyone else's education and bully people.

If coupled with the removal of being fined for expulsions, we wouldn't have the funding to provide education for the kids who should be expelled, and therefore they would be out and not left in the school to disrupt everyone else's education and bully people.

Presumably one in a worse area will have more problems then?

Can you explain the reasoning behind that opinion?

What are you doing right now?

I don't even care about their class, it's just amusing that they are well off yet choose to look ragged.

Cool. Just don't expect for people to respect your following the trend.

Perhaps I'll move country if this caries on and join one which isn't a cesspit of chavs.

I've heard New Zealand is a nice place to live...

So the parents pay for the actions of the child? What happens when the parent cannot afford to pay the fine?
The child will go elsewhere and since he/she has not had to pay the fine will just do it again.

Where do you presume these children would go?

One persons bully is anothers son.

Well? What improvements would cutting spending bring?

The problems are down to the people that go there and not the schools themselves. If they have problems it's because they have unruly kids in them. Behind which opinion specifically? I'm doing A levels. They don't look ragged though I've never seen a 'hipster' as you put it dressed in rags. I don't 'follow a trend', I wear whatever I want, whether it's worn by loads of people or just me. That's not following a trend, it's not giving a ****.

Should have thought about that before they repeatedly disrupted others' education.

Should have thought about that before they repeatedly disrupted others' education.

They are children.

I presume you were bullied and now have a chip on your shoulder over it.

Spending cuts will only definitively lead to a reduction in teaching quality if the teaching methods remains the same. Scrapping of ineffective programs and initiatives, and reforms of teaching methods can reduce cost and improve results. Teaching has changed a lot from pure textbook and blackboard teaching in ability separated groups into dynamic teaching methods involving creativity, interactive whiteboards, and out of the class room learning in mixed ability sets. Yet standards have gone down, as this study is showing many kids can't master the basics. A return to the time where education was functional, rather than fun. Based around core principles at a primary level.

I refused to believe there is any causation between the investment in education and the ability of a child to read at a level expected of a 5 year old, and mastery of basic skills like counting and the alphabet. This is all done outside of the school, kids should be able to read, count, and have basic problem solving and social skills, without the aid of the state. This is a parental failure, not a educational one. Any evidence beyond that has to account for disadvantage you start with and the fact that what ever caused this remains throughout your education, the parenting and home life.

Is the child in the best position to look after his own future interests?

What to do with unruly kids?

How cutting funding to state schools would benefit the pupils there.

Yeah looking emaciated with skinny jeans, "ironic" plaid lumberjack shirts and purposefully badly styled hair. It is giving a ****. It's giving enough of a **** to note what everyone else around you is doing and copy it.

They are children.

I presume you were bullied and now have a chip on your shoulder over it.

Spending cuts will only definitively lead to a reduction in teaching quality if the teaching methods remains the same. Scrapping of ineffective programs and initiatives, and reforms of teaching methods can reduce cost and improve results. Teaching has changed a lot from pure textbook and blackboard teaching in ability separated groups into dynamic teaching methods involving creativity, interactive whiteboards, and out of the class room learning in mixed ability sets. Yet standards have gone down, as this study is showing many kids can't master the basics. A return to the time where education was functional, rather than fun. Based around core principles at a primary level.

I refused to believe there is any causation between the investment in education and the ability of a child to read at a level expected of a 5 year old, and mastery of basic skills like counting and the alphabet. This is all done outside of the school, kids should be able to read, count, and have basic problem solving and social skills, without the aid of the state. This is a parental failure, not a educational one. Any evidence beyond that has to account for disadvantage you start with and the fact that what ever caused this remains throughout your education, the parenting and home life.