I remember back in the early 1980s when a representative of the Engineering Society said that an engineering honours degree from our ancient university was worth less than a CNAA engineering degree from the world-class Central Institution (now a university) in the same city.Nowt wrong with the former Polytechnicsmy degree for my field is worth the exact same as the degree from other unis for the same job (specific degree I appreciate) but it means squat for many professions. Not on MN though obvs lol
Yes, it's all gone very icky on there.There’s a thread about inappropriate things that have happened to you that is feeding the perverts.
I reckon it was started innocently enough but the stories will be giving the pervs plenty of cheap thrills. There have even been posts on it asking people not to feed it.
That thread was hilariousThe thread that got me this morning was the lady who’s son was farrrrr too clever to go to mainstream school, but she couldn’t understand why she’d have to fill in forms about her finances to get him a bursary for a private school.
Get your genius 12 year old to explain to you why you’d need to show the school how you can’t afford it when you want them to fund his place.
I ended up feeling a bit sorry for her in the end (if it was true) as some of the replies were so spiteful. Then sparkling brook turned up with her trademark confused emojis and I couldn’t bear to read any more.That thread was hilarious
Where's Babblingbrook when we need him/her/it?Ahh Sparklingbrook one of the resident hierarchical arseholes.
I don’t think she meant it as bad as it came across. But I’m also imagining her child isn’t actually very bright at all just has a superiority complexI ended up feeling a bit sorry for her in the end (if it was true) as some of the replies were so spiteful. Then sparkling brook turned up with her trademark confused emojis and I couldn’t bear to read any more.
Ugh it's depressing isn't it?They do. They’re always going on about how much they hate the UK and how they want to emigrate or they’re applying for Irish passports and the UK isn’t much better than <insert second or third world country>, which is usually when someone from one of those countries comes along to say the UK is better or who do they they think they are talking about said country in such a manner. The people of MN are filled with utter self loathing and are absolute crashing snobs. They all think they’re incredibly well travelled as well because they once went camping in France or on an all inclusive to Egypt.
I didn’t vote for Brexit but I do find it amusing how every so often a thread pops up about how they’re still bitter about having ‘opportunities taken away from them’ like the Erasmus scheme (I’d never heard of it til MN) or having to pay import fees on expensive Venetian glass vases or some such. Those every day worries of ordinary people.
These types of parents are the worst. I expect she thought the school would be so desperate to have her son and his genius on board, they’d either wave him in no questions asked, or pay her for the privilege of his attendance.The thread that got me this morning was the lady who’s son was farrrrr too clever to go to mainstream school, but she couldn’t understand why she’d have to fill in forms about her finances to get him a bursary for a private school.
Get your genius 12 year old to explain to you why you’d need to show the school how you can’t afford it when you want them to fund his place.
All children are tutored for grammar school and it isn't because they aren't bright or clever. At least that's the case where I live.They all think their children are “extremely bright” yet they all needed 2 years of tutoring to get into grammar school. If you’re genuinely bright you don’t need any tutoring!
Oh and they’re also all tall and slim and sporty. No fat, short kids who sit on Minecraft all day, even though statistically that will be most kids….
Me and my brother went to good grammar schools and neither of us were tutored, we just did some practise papers at home with our mum. Same with several of my friends.All children are tutored for grammar school and it isn't because they aren't bright or clever. At least that's the case where I live.
I dont know exact numbers but if the pass mark is 200, anything over that is a pass and gets you into a grammar school. Our local grammar school only offers 60 places to the first 60 highest scorers over the pass mark so say someone gets 300 as the highest, the next 59 below that get a place. If more than one gets the same score they offer it to the closest to the school. The children are being tutored to get into the top 60 to get the highest they can and not tutored just to pass
I agree - the kids I know who got tutored heavily were in bottom sets and got mostly B’s anyway. Grammar school does push you upwards if you’re average and manage to get in, so I get why people tutor, but I think if you’re genuinely bright you shouldn’t need it (bar some practise to know the format).Grammar schools are supposed to be for the academically very bright. If you need tutoring to pass the eleven plus you are not clever enough and will not be able to handle the pressure of a grammar school. The real reason they are so fixated on grammar schools is because they can’t afford to go private but don’t want their kids to mix with the riff raff at a bog standard comp.
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