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This is getting off the subject, perhaps a different thread?

Has cheating has become more acceptable than trying to stop a cheat?

Do you think Tessa logs in to the ed forum?

Once you have kids pre nups should end. Even in this day and age a women can have to give up everything career wise once she becomes pregnant and a partnership should be a partnership. Do we really want to encourage the increasingly individualistic nature of society? (Although i still want a Bentley). Also isn't marriage a commitment? A pre nup is the opposite of commitment, why bother getting married?

We now 'like', and countries will engage with, America. The youth culture of Black americans can identify with politics, (i'm sick to death of 'Black history week' being only about slavery, not necessarily the only part of a peoples history!). Plus he outted the real 'evil doers' from the white house. The pope, mother Teresa, that lady from 'Kids club', no one else could have done so much in such a short space of time.

I suppose what im thinking is that as demand exceeds supply (not just at the mo but for the last few years). Wont the goal posts just shift and lower income groups will just be excluded form the mortgage market, as higher earners become the first time buyers shifting up the 'long term average'. Obviously this will cause massive social problems, but i am really interested as unfortunately i want a bentley, a small one, possibly with a garden.

Sorry to be a house price boar but i'm confused. Media makes constant reference to 'return to long term average', and 'income ratio's' isn't this all out of the window now that we are running out of space?

Why not? Honestly, would love the reassurance.

intexasatthe moment Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Pointing out the obvious maybe ,but unlike the > statutory obligation to provide education for all > 5 year olds, there is no legal requirement for > Southwark to provide nursery places for all. Your point being? We should put up or shut up? There are NO places for first borns in vast areas of Se22, think of it as an early warning system for primary places!!

huncamunca Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Interested to hear why you say the school is > failing? > SATS results do not define this. Mixed ability > intakes and a diversity in home support means that > London schools are presented with a very different > set of challenges and outcomes. The teaching and > environment can still be good. And kids that are > well supported at home usually do well at primary > level. So is your problem the school or the > intake of the school Lets face facts, Southwark schools are not as well managed as others e.g. Lewisham. The local council are not good at managing schools! They are out of touch, examples of this include OFSTED reports, their total inability to provide school places and their inability to take the local schools crisis as anything other than moaning middle classes. When people take action about poor management they are supporting Southwark schools. Most parents i know would prefer an authentic mix in their childs classroom and their issue is with how kids/ teachers/ Schools ect are supported and managed! I totally agree with TOAST. It's not wrong to want your kids school well managed!

Just wanted to mention that its not just that kids are not getting into 'top'/ preferred schools. There is a real shortage of places, and kids are not getting to go to 'local' schools, leaving them frozen out of their community. Please dont undermine our community by suggesting that its just snobby parents making irrational choices.

In their small moves labour have been way more impressive than Lib dems! Who have dome nothing but give poor excuses based on nothing but speculation about the causes of the problems! My rabbit could come up with a better action plan! Also i heard that they have really bottled it regarding the elections and moved the election date to just after people find out about their places. Not a sign that they are really on top of things hay!

Anyone know when these are this year?

I spoke the Lib Dem when they were at the Rye, it was a bit confusing. Yes we are getting a new school but there is nowhere to put it. So that actually means we wont be getting it? Also next year will be better but the population will be bigger so there will actually be more pressure on places so will actually be worse? The weirdest thing was the shameless admittance that they had been cocking up for years and it had been getting worse and worse and it has only come to a head now. Very confused.