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by rockfreak
Tue Nov 23, 2021 8:11 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
Replies: 53
Views: 35441

Re: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'

I don't understand why Loringa is projecting me as spending all my time among middle class students. There has always been a proportion of middle class students at rock gigs, but in my experience outweighed by the working classes (as far as one is ever able to tell). My nocturnal experiences over th...
by rockfreak
Sat Nov 20, 2021 8:48 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
Replies: 53
Views: 35441

Re: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'

POLICE EXTEND 'STOP AND SEARCH' TO CITY TRADERS In order to stop a repeat of the 2007/2008 financial crash, the police are now making use of new powers to stop and search all those in the financial district. This is in response to public concern about the way that these people tanked the economy and...
by rockfreak
Fri Nov 19, 2021 7:41 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
Replies: 53
Views: 35441

Re: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'

Problems for black or Asian pupils living in the real world (as opposed to the fairyland occupied by ex-public schoolboys). Last week the Guardian ran a story quoting an Afro Caribbean mum who complained that her teenaged son had been stopped by the police and asked to justify himself no less than 3...
by rockfreak
Tue Nov 16, 2021 8:24 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
Replies: 53
Views: 35441

Re: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'

It's interesting that this story gets into the Torygraph (as it's always been known by the people who work on it). Not the first time it's happened. If Con Coughlan is still at the Telegraph it may be that he's picking up CH stories out of interest, although this one is a shoe-in for the Telegraph (...
by rockfreak
Fri Nov 05, 2021 8:30 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Freaky on Witch Persecution (Well it is Halloween)
Replies: 2
Views: 1208

Re: Freaky on Witch Persecution (Well it is Halloween)

How do you know I wouldn't have received the same education elsewhere? There has already been comment on this site as to the standard of education. I remember some inspiring teachers (maybe in the subjects that I was interested in) along with some obvious timeservers. Might not a decent grammar scho...
by rockfreak
Tue Nov 02, 2021 7:14 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway
Replies: 18
Views: 9588

Re: Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway

Actually no. I didn't put myself very well. I was agreeing with Chrissie about much of the teaching at CH being overrated. The state schooling system always seems condemned to be underfunded and has to deal with taking in children from difficult backgrounds while the government underfunds it. In oth...
by rockfreak
Sun Oct 31, 2021 8:33 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Freaky on Witch Persecution (Well it is Halloween)
Replies: 2
Views: 1208

Freaky on Witch Persecution (Well it is Halloween)

Last week The Observer ran a feature on the late medieval persecution of alleged witches. It was felt that the state owed an apology to those who were hanged or burnt at the stake (Sorry girls, come down off that bonfire and we'll give you a big hug). In this week's edition yours truly gets a letter...
by rockfreak
Sun Oct 31, 2021 7:57 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway
Replies: 18
Views: 9588

Re: Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway

I moved into teaching when I was 40. I then taught in inner city comprehensives until I retired. I saw more quality teaching than I ever experienced at CH. The best teachers were leagues ahead of the worst teachers at CH. The pastoral care system was well developed and well intentioned - in stark c...
by rockfreak
Mon Oct 11, 2021 8:58 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway
Replies: 18
Views: 9588

Re: Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway

I might well be jumping to mischievous conclusions because I know from studying much of the research literature that is out there about the private school sector, particularly the boarding schools, that some teachers spend their whole careers teaching in the private sector. Why is this? Perhaps beca...
by rockfreak
Sun Oct 10, 2021 7:29 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway
Replies: 18
Views: 9588

Re: Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway

In reply to Loringa's post, I was hoping for a few more posts from Old Blues who have taught in the state sector. Do all other OBs go on to teach in the private sector where perhaps they feel they will get an easier passage? How sad, and not a very good reflection on our old school which prides itse...
by rockfreak
Wed Oct 06, 2021 9:28 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway
Replies: 18
Views: 9588

Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway

To all teachers, past, present and just setting out, and particularly those tackling the chalk face (or the whiteboard these days) in the state sector. I cannot recommend the above book highly enough. In her fifties Kellaway left a successful career in journalism on the FT (writing, often satiricall...
by rockfreak
Sun Oct 03, 2021 8:06 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Brexit
Replies: 117
Views: 266058

Re: Brexit

The way Brexit is panning out reminds me of that old saying that bankruptcy comes in two ways. First gradually and then suddenly. Mind you, I suppose the same might be said of lots of things. Including orgasm.
by rockfreak
Wed Sep 29, 2021 8:42 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Brexit
Replies: 117
Views: 266058

Re: Brexit

So, several months on from our last posts on this site we have a fuel shortage. To say nothing of more empty shelves in the supermarkets (Tesco haven't had stir fries for months and were quite surprised when I pointed this out to them). Bumbling Bozza the Bullingdon Buffoon, Grant Shapps (aka Michae...
by rockfreak
Mon Sep 27, 2021 8:49 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Roger Allam in Radio Times
Replies: 62
Views: 32118

Re: Roger Allam in Radio Times

When I went up into Col. B in 1955 there was a punishment called fotching. This was administered by monitors and involved having to stand there while you got a good clout around the back of the head as a response to some minor misdemeanour, sometimes nearly knocking you off your feet. Some monitors ...
by rockfreak
Sat Sep 18, 2021 8:48 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Politics
Replies: 624
Views: 236162

Re: Politics

A double whammy from Le Freak today. One letter published in the FT Weekend edition and another in the Grauniad. In the FT I respond to one of their pundits last week who seemed to be blaming the Bank of England for inflation and comparing today's Tory scenario with the inflation and upheavals of th...