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Or just a filthy skid-mark across the political compass.
Look at all the people arguing over whether the media (especially the BBC) is biased - their view of each outlet depends significantly on their own political position.
fear of failure..
we all like to think we are good, smart people.. people of value etc..
failure is embarrassing… and many people have a rather high opinion of themselves..
it's easier to avoid the test and make fun of people than it is to actually do it..
it's not just knowledge either..
it's like being a muso too..
some folks get out there, up on stage.. playing the music they created themselves..
and make mistakes up there too
at the weekend I dropped an absolute bomb of a bumber at a festival in front of thousands - but so what.. shit happens
others that don't get out there or don't play at all can be quick to point and laugh and criticise [write scathing reviews]..
'armchair people' never fail at anything because they never set out to pass
If I knew there'd be a skid mark to tick in the election I'd have ticked it..
@Evilmags can you let us know exactly where you saw this?
Just nosey about the people who paid for it, whether it includes provate schools, etc...
Basic human rights? Oh, I dunno, not being in fear for your life, shelter, food, that kind of stuff. Which is of course denied to people all over the planet, but shouldn't be.
Many socialist systems that helped baby boomers get educated, the NHS, the fantasic pensions, all that public infrastructure that offered benefits to everyone is slowly being dismantled and sold off by the people it benefitted most.
This.
I would like to think that as the UK becomes a less pleasant place to live, the demand for property will go down as well. But I'm not holding my breath if it's tucked away in companies. Good way to get out of inheritance tax BTW - transfer properties into companies and make your beneficiaries directors ahead of your demise.
[This space for rent]
Given that teachers have had either a pay freeze, or a rise limited to 1% since 2010, you can understand why. They also changed the teachers pension scheme for the worse in 2015.
Having said that, for a lot of teachers it's not just about their personal gain. They see the lack of funding for buying books, and the state of the facilities etc. My wife is a teacher, and she regularly spends her own money buying stuff at boot sales and taking it into school. That's just wrong. Schools should be funded properly.
Edit: They also have a lot of special needs kids in the school my wife teaches at, and the problems getting support for them are horrific. It's never been good under any government, but it's got a lot worse recently. It's seeing this kind of stuff on a day to day basis that means that teachers mostly vote for other parties - more so than their personal financial losses from Tory policies.
"Was it any better under 8 years of Labour, then? How so?"
I don't know whether it was or not - I'm not a teacher - so it was a genuine question. I'd still like to know.
What we call hard work today looks absolutely nothing like what hard work was in the 50's and 60's.
You're making a privilege argument which does not account for all shapes and sizes. It's as much of a broad-brush treatment of the boomer generation as you're accusing them. Except I'm not a boomer. I'm 32, and I think lots of my generation have ludicrous expectations and demands married to a lazy work ethic.
And poverty worldwide has massively decreased over time.
https://ourworldindata.org/slides/world-poverty/#/title-slide
https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty/
https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-poverty/historical-poverty-people.html
http://data.worldbank.org/topic/poverty
If you look at the UK statistics, in *some* niche areas the poverty gap has widened, but as a general trend the trajectory is downwards for at least the past 100 years.
That was a joke. For what it's worth, I don't think it's a quality issue, it's a demand issue.
12% of medicine articles are not cited, compared to about 82% for the humanities. It’s 27% for natural sciences and 32% for social sciences.
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0809/0809.5250.pdf
The uncited articles aren't necessary shit, they're likely just not of any particular interest or value to anyone other than the author, who had to write them to get their PhD in *insert humanities subject here*
I suspect some of that is down to the fact that a lot of the "education" budget is swallowed up by the expensive PFI contracts that Labour signed up to in the early 2000s.
Some of it is also demographics. There has been a bit of a baby boom. The primary school my daughters are at has gone from one form entry to two form entry. There is another primary in our local area (within a mile or so) that has expanded as well. There is also a new "free school" primary that has opened around a mile and a half away, and a new "free school" secondary that that has opened as well. There is another secondary 2 and half miles away that is expanding.
Free schools probably haven't helped either. They do cost more. Justine Greening admitted as much the other day with her education funding announcement. She's partly paying for that by scrapping 30 new free schools that will now be conventional schools instead.
The demographics issue isn't just a simple numbers thing either. A lot of the additional pupils are children of immigrants which brings additional costs. If I remember correctly, about a third (or possibly even half) of the kids at my wife's school do not speak English at home and need extra support - which has been removed. The LEA in their borough has shut down it's support team for ESL kids as a cost saving.
Given the demographic situation, I'd be very interested to see the figures on a per capita basis, rather than an absolute basis. Add in the ideologically driven costs on free schools, and the PFI hangovers from Labour, and there is a massive funding problem in schools.