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SALFORD COUNCIL TO OPPOSE GRAMMAR SCHOOLS `AT ANY COST’
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Star date: 22nd September 2016 PUTTING GRAMMAR SCHOOLS BACK IN SALFORD `DISGRACE' As Theresa May tries to restore the grammar school education system to the UK, councillors were yesterday re-assured that Salford City Council would fight the Prime Minister. Speaking at the full meeting of Salford City Council, City Mayor, Paul Dennett said that the grammar system "provides opportunities...for the well off in society...we oppose them at any cost within this city". Full details here...
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Tory Prime Minister Theresa May might just have a fight on her hands if she tries to bring the loathed grammar school system to Salford. At yesterday's full meeting of Salford City Council, Labour Party councillors lined up to recall their sad experiences of the old grammar school system of the Sixties and Seventies, with Councillor Howard Balkind recounting how he was seen "as a failure by a lot of my friends" for not passing his 11+... "Can I have the City Mayor's assurance that we have no intention of ever allowing grammar schools to come back to this city?" he asked. Responding, City Mayor Paul Dennett explained: "What our focus should be on is improving the educational standards of every single school within Salford. Selective education is not a way forward...it provides opportunities as far as I'm concerned for the well off in society; it doesn't deal with some of the socio economic issues that we face within this city. "Our policy, as far as I'm concerned, is fairly clear and it applies to grammar schools" he added "We're against forced academies, we will work with schools that locally decide to choose to become academies but on grammar schools I have to say we oppose them at any cost within this city." Councillor Roger Jones noted how people were going without holidays in Trafford to pay for private tutors to help their children get into grammar schools, while the rich could afford whatever education they wanted... "We know that and have accepted that in this country for too long but in my opinion they shouldn't get a penny from the state" he added "...all pupils should be given the same opportunity with the same funding. There should be none of this `We'll have an academy, give them more money...We'll have a grammar school, give them more money; and then the rest, you'll get the lesser education'. It's a disgrace and we should never go back to that system." Meanwhile, the Salford Star understands that there are plans for a new free school in Worsley, while the private Consilium Academy Trust is planning to take over up to four schools to add to Buile Hill Visual Arts College which it snapped up this summer.
See also previous Salford Star article:
Salford and Eccles MP Tells Parents to Create Uproar Over Academies - click here
Main graphic showing Enid Blyton illustration from: Catching Them Young: Political Ideas in Children's Fiction by Bob Dixon
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Censored wrote
at 07:19:46 on 03 October 2016 |
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| @wrote and Bernard brough, did reply, but censored. The left believe censorship is the way of winning the debate, but that is what happens when the lefts ideology dosn't stand up to scrutiny. |
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at 06:20:43 on 29 September 2016 |
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| Oh and Brexit, it's 'well educated people', not 'well education people'! If you are going to throw around terms like 'brain dead' be sure you don't come across as an uneducated ignoramus....oh too late! |
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at 20:03:01 on 28 September 2016 |
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| @Brexit, it's grammar and ordinary.....brain dead UKIPer? |
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Bernard Brough wrote
at 14:03:13 on 28 September 2016 |
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| Mr Brexit, I hate to piss on your chips, but Labour have not been in power these six years. Hardly in a position to create the problems this country faces. |
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Brexit wrote
at 05:45:57 on 28 September 2016 |
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| The opposition to grammer schools by the Labour Party and labour councils is simple, well education people don't vote labour, labour need the brain dead to keep the Labour Party alive. Where was salford in the education league table in the northwest, was it second from bottom out of 39 councils in the northwest. People are starting to realise that the Labour Party are the cause of many of this countries problems, not the answer to them. Labour no longer represent the ordenary people in the street, the've joined the elite, sold us out for their thirty pieces of silver, the Labour Party, self serving, currupt, arrogant and no longer listens to the common people. |
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Michael James Felse wrote
at 10:39:50 on 26 September 2016 |
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| Thank you White for your own good service to teaching. However the importance of Childline and abuse news reports lends me to believe my life suffered atrocities were not isolated. I want young people to have a direct whistleblower right in every school. As for Grammar Schools I say ask the pupils what structures they want. Adults and teachers do not know what is best for every child as I am sure you know professionally individual learning styles differ from person to person. Excuse me if I do not share the belief that education puts the best alternatives into lives of all the children's lives. And please do not draw me on the sheer neglect caused to millions that were failed by the past education system who were simply not taken to their full potential in our state schools. Felse. |
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white wrote
at 11:13:24 on 25 September 2016 |
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| Michael James Felse’s comments are based on one experience at one school in the distant past.
He is prepared to offer that as evidence to contradict the views of almost all educationalists and even a Tory ex-education minister, who have more knowledge that his recollections of his youth.
I taught my whole career in local authority comprehensive schools and can state quite categorically that no ‘high-fliers’ were held back nor were any ‘low-achiever’ prevented from attaining their best. Does he, and many of the grammars school proponents, think that all pupils are simply lumped together and dragged down to a low common level? No, they are all taught and allowed to achieve their individual potentials, by setting, streaming etc. And of course being all in one establishment being able to be lifted from lower to higher sets/streams should they so need.
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Michael James Felse wrote
at 13:51:01 on 23 September 2016 |
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| Hi Alice, thank you for your side of the debate. I can refute the call of bigoted as I am always open to listen to alternatives. But I cannot reverse my own life experiences and sincerely will do all to ensure no other young person or child is placed at risk. I fear the melt down of the Labour Party at election of Corbyn tomorrow will put all Labour Councils out of effective management for 30 years. It is that risk to state school management that forces me to accept Theresa May's alternative approach and I urge people to see the light that will no doubt follow to grasp new opportunities for Salford's young people that will have to compete worldwide. |
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Concerned teacher wrote
at 10:15:20 on 23 September 2016 |
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| Why are Schools not transferring to the already established Salford Academy Trust?, is because this is a failing Academy Trust and as been left to fail by the LA with a total disregard for Salford Pupils.. |
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RayofSunshine wrote
at 10:15:08 on 23 September 2016 |
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| Mr. Felse is by his own words exposed as a
Tory Dupe! Let's be clear about what lies behind Theresa May's drive for more Grammes Schools ; it's a blatant attempt to consolidate middle class privilege at the expense of working people!
Such an ignoble policy is par for the course for
this reactionary and illegitimate government.
I'm sorry to hear about Michael ' s "school trauma" -- is this the source of his psychosis which
he regularly ďisplays in postings to this site?
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Alice wrote
at 16:57:13 on 22 September 2016 |
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| As a teacher trainer, who has worked in this country and others, I am horrified at the proposal to reintroduce grammar schools. What is needed is good primary education so that our children can get a firm grasp of the core skills. That means ploughing money into this age group and reducing the size of classes by employing more primary teachers. Then children will get more attention, especially when facing learning difficulties.They will then arrive at secondary school with the understanding and skills needed for this level. Also, and crucially important, would be a move to educate parents in ways to stimulate their children's learning with confidence building and genuine praise for effort. To return to grammar schools is an elitist move destined to divide society more than it is. As for Mr Felse's comments, they are abusive, untrue and bigoted. I have taught in many state schools, have four sons who attended state schools, all now with degrees, including one as a teacher in a state school, and that has not been my experience. So pleased to hear the Mayor's support for the comprehensive system. Shows genuine understanding of the issue. |
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white wrote
at 16:56:59 on 22 September 2016 |
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| Has Mr Felse not realised that his experiences of yesteryear,the 50s or 60s, are not what it is like now. I speak as one who taught, as a teacher not a tutor, from the 60s to the 90s.
As for taking schools out of Council control; is he in favour of handing them over to any organisation/faith group etc who comes along with cash. Privatisation in another guise. |
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life is loud wrote
at 12:08:41 on 22 September 2016 |
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| It wont happen and she knows it |
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Michael James Felse wrote
at 12:08:37 on 22 September 2016 |
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| I profoundly disagree with Councillor Dennett. We must take schools out of Council control. My own experience from a state school was one riddled with teacher bullies, peadophiles and right wing fascists. Children beaten and abused daily while the Labour Council turned a blind eye. We need change that gives young people opportunity. In this we need a Greater Manchester free wifi with innovation links for young people to take their skills, ideas and inventions into the world wide markets. What is it that the Labour top troopers do not understand about better modern education. I do see Mr Dennett rather like a beakless budgie if he thinks he can stop the unstoppable Trereasa May as we at last get more young people opportunities into Salford and across Manchester for a great generation of young people's ideas. Felse. |
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Brian F Kirkham wrote
at 12:08:28 on 22 September 2016 |
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| Interesting piece this. I have my own experience of the grammar school system. Back in the late 80s I was put forward for , sat and passed the entrance exam for that illustrious catholic grammar school, St Bedes in Alexandra park...only to be told because others above me had taken their spots I would have to wait a year before going there...now, I don't think they realised the upheaval one of their new intake faces in the move from primary to secondary , because when they recontacted me I had one hell of a time getting used to the new enviroment of the catholic secondary I had been sent to...children should not be seen as failures at age 11. Their talents should be identified and encouraged...whatever they happen to be |
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