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Indian man urinating on train track dies after being hit by ‘flying cow’
Another man who was relieving himself nearby narrowly escaped from being hit by the animal. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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My dad does that on his phone. I think his record was once somewhere around 200.
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Tom
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My phone's browser has a smiley face where the tabs thing is. I gave up trying to organise that shit when they started grouping things together.
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Loved them when I was a kid. Probably because of that advert, that doesn't actually advertise the steak, but makes everyone feel good about something everyone does love.
Wouldn't go anywhere near them now. Ultraprocessed crap. Don't be conned by the term "natural flavourings" - they're products of the petrochemical industry. For example, why crush up some expensive almonds when you could make a chemical that tastes the same as almonds from reacting oil and gas and just add that? Or extract a similar chemical from the pips of other fruit that would otherwise be thrown away. Just crush 'em on an industrial scale and put them through a few chemical washes and hey presto.
Add a bit of them and some salt to mask that it doesn't taste anything like steak. Mmmmm. Lovely.
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Just like the Station Nightclub fire. Moment pyrotechnics set fire in North Macedonia club
If you've never heard of the former, the video of the fire, particularly the audio, is pretty awful.
If you've never heard of the former, the video of the fire, particularly the audio, is pretty awful.
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Never realised Daniel Peacock was in that ad. He directed scenes for a tv show in my flat once.
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What show?
I had to look it up. It was called Harry & Cosh. Some teenaged thing. It was when I had a flat in west London and one of the producers lived across the road and they asked if they could do a day's shooting in the flat (it was ground floor with it's own front door and the producer could clearly see in from her house!). They wrecked the place (loads of gashes in walls and shit), but to be fair they then completely redecorated. Would have been 2002-2003 time?
Gwadien
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@Scouse
Check this
www.theguardian.com
www.flagshiplearningtrust.co.uk
Exec head in a trust is on £345k a year and there is one school in the Trust, I can't even begin to comprehend.
Check this
Hundreds of English academy heads paid over £150k, as number ‘on gravy train’ doubles in five years
School leaders attacked as ‘an unaccountable elite’ after years of below-inflation pay rises for teachers
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The Flagship Learning Trust was established in 2019 with a vision to improve the academic performance and physical, social and emotional well-being of the students attending our Trust schools. The Trust chose to identify as ‘Flagship’ as it was founded in Wright Robinson College, which is not...
Exec head in a trust is on £345k a year and there is one school in the Trust, I can't even begin to comprehend.
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I read that guardian article this morning @Gwadien.
How's that trust performing?
Not saying he's definitely worth 345k, btw.
Edit:
Hmmm. Maybe he is - considering it's a deprived area.
How's that trust performing?
Not saying he's definitely worth 345k, btw.
Edit:
Hmmm. Maybe he is - considering it's a deprived area.
| GCSE Results | School | LA | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 or above in English & Maths GCSEs | 51% | 29.98% | 30.03% |
| Grade 4 or above in English & Maths GCSEs | 75% | 42% | 43.07% |
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Gwadien
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I think that makes it worse.
These amazing schools in deprived areas are great for kids that live in deprived areas but still like structure deep down, it still abandons kids that aren't interested.
The school gets £1.1m of pupil premium funding, he takes a 30% of that money that's designed to enhance the experience of kids at school (money for trips etc) but a massive chunk of it is going in his pocket.
Do you think the success of a school is purely down to its academic attainment? The school I went to had shit academic results but was exceptionally good at keeping kids in a deprived area on the straight and narrow, and looking at society today I think that's a pretty damn important thing.
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You don't get academic attainment like that without the vast majority of kids being engaged and focussed. You don't achieve unless you're mostly on the straight and narrow.
And given that your academic achievement is the door-opener that enables choices that, if used well, echoes down an entire lifetime then yes.
Yes I do think academic achievement is the primary measure of a school. Not the only measure, but by far the most important one.
It's a load of crap to suppose those 75% who've achieved over the norm for the country have done so in a school that isn't excelling across the board.
Some kids are always going to get left behind. That sucks and is largely down to their family situation. But if you focus exclusively on them then you're holding back the rest. And that's unfair.
So yeah - those results, in an inner city deprived school of 1800 pupils?
Worth what they pay him.
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Um, she needs more training, i've had over 600 tabs open in FF. Also because I thought I might have important tabs open I had to go through each tab before closing it. I am getting better, got about 150 open now.
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Tell you what makes things 'worse' though: The fact that the national average for Grade 4 (which is a low to mid C in old-money) is fucking 40%. That's gash.
The fact that his school is 75% shows that they're doing things right, in an economically disadvantaged area no less, and we should be modelling what they're doing and rolling it out to the rest of our schools.
Educational attainment = economic success. (To a point. Obviously, being born into the right family is the biggest determiner). If we could structure schools in such a way that kids got a clearly superior education to the shite we got in the 80's (which appears to be equivalent to the shite we're getting today) then we'd make a meaningful change to the whole country. To get those higher grades means more focus, more attention being paid by the kids. Less disruption. That educational environment leaves an imprint that carries on into later life.
Utterly uncontroversially - better schools = higher educational attainment = less twats.
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Yeah but we haven't reaped what's been sowed yet, and we only will if what you said is done - it's rolled out nationally.
I avoid schools like this like the plague - they're from the handbook of Gove - on the same principle as Chinese schools - High focus on Maths/Science and absolute devotion to authority (in and out of the school) which flies in the face in the whole promoting 'British Values' thing, as a part of it suggests the reason why the West was successful was due to our unwillingness to bend to authority like the Chinese do.
Essentially, as someone in the 'work place' - if you want a work force that are obedient and are excellent at following orders then crack on, you won't find many innovators from State education.
I've taught at a school very similar to this - they boot out the misbehaving kids or put them into isolation until they opt out themselves, the thing that the 6 digit heads won't talk about this, oh and the rate of kids dropping out in favour for county lines and such - I think if someone did the maths they'd find a direct correlation between the increase of exploitation of kids (ie carrying drugs/money/weapons) and the 0 shits given by as I call them 'Trusts'.
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Well, I went here to find actual data:
explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk
But it turns out it's a fucking ballache.
Maybe just round up all the disruptive kids, their parents, and their brothers and sisters and mulch them into dog food. It's the only way to be sure.
Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, Autumn term 2023/24
<p>This publication presents statistics on <a data-glossary href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/glossary#suspension">suspensions</a> and <a data-glossary href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/glossary#permanent-exclusion">permanent exclusions</a> across...
But it turns out it's a fucking ballache.
Maybe just round up all the disruptive kids, their parents, and their brothers and sisters and mulch them into dog food. It's the only way to be sure.
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Well, I went here to find actual data:
Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, Autumn term 2023/24
<p>This publication presents statistics on <a data-glossary href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/glossary#suspension">suspensions</a> and <a data-glossary href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/glossary#permanent-exclusion">permanent exclusions</a> across...
But it turns out it's a fucking ballache.
Maybe just round up all the disruptive kids, their parents, and their brothers and sisters and mulch them into dog food. It's the only way to be sure.
I think the 1984 approach is better
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Had a look at it. All available online.
There's an awful lot of guff in there. An awful lot. Mixed in with some stuff that's true. As per.
Doesn't help that we kyboshed stuff during covid that turned out to be potentially true. Martin Rees - the Astronomer Royal - will be paying out on a bet (in the wrong way) - on whether Covid escaped from Wuhan. It's inconvenient that it could well be (very likely to be) the case - and made worse that Zuck and his social buddies, and the MSM censored that narrative. Censorship is an own-goal that fuels conspiracy theorists.
There's an awful lot of guff in there. An awful lot. Mixed in with some stuff that's true. As per.
Doesn't help that we kyboshed stuff during covid that turned out to be potentially true. Martin Rees - the Astronomer Royal - will be paying out on a bet (in the wrong way) - on whether Covid escaped from Wuhan. It's inconvenient that it could well be (very likely to be) the case - and made worse that Zuck and his social buddies, and the MSM censored that narrative. Censorship is an own-goal that fuels conspiracy theorists.
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It can be frustrating dealing with the conspiracy stuff. I used to read a great Scandinavian blog, because the commentary on news was great. They'd look at a story in the press, go back to the original press release source, look at the police reports, etc and then report on what the mainstream news didn't post. It was interesting to see what was left in and left out across Danish, Swedish and Norwegian news. Today, it's all about killer COVID-19 vaccines and lies about the Ukraine conflict.