ajm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4232643.stm

Nice one Labour!

unclebuck

That's a bit harsh! It's only a *billion pounds* of our money that they've completely wasted.

STi wanna Subaru

iTrader: (1)

Educate their parents and get them to make the kids go to school! I wouldn't dare miss school as a kid even though I didn't want to go because of how my parents would react if they found out.

ajm

I wonder if the 1 billion includes the money they were planning to hand out to kids in a loony scheme to bribe them to do something they should be doing anyway!!!

SJ_Skyline

Heres a thought....

A mandatory death penalty for truants. Sure there would be a couple of kids put to death but this would serve to strike terror into the hearts of the others and make them attend. Mum (and Dad) would make damn sure their precious little ones would go to school!! A further benefit of this drastic action would be that the ones killed would be the stupid ones not being educated - a form of pro-active natural selection!


Incidently I am joking before anybody decides to get on their high (hunting) horse

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

Thicko cleansing what a great idea Send it to RKS so he can add it to his new manifesto for the Veritas party

But I fear it still won't work as some parents are still way to thick to realise the consequences, and just think if little Johnny was executed for skiving just think of the extra money the parents would have for ****, booze and gold jewelry etc by not having to pay for food or clothes for him

It would certainly clean up the Gene pool

The Zohan

Perhaps B-Lair really meant £ducation, £ducation, £ducation!

Leslie

One day it will become apparent to even the most incompetent NL crony that just throwing our taxes at the problems don't make them go away. You actually have to do something to make it happen as well.

However good they are at talking themselves up, or rather employing someone to do that for them, they have constantly demonstrated that they are incapable of actually producing any kind of a worthwhile result.

Sometimes I wonder if they care anyway, all mouth and trousers won't run a country!

Les

OllyK

After almost 1 billion and 9 years I should bloody well thinks so! So Mrs Kelly, how much impact have you made?
Mrs Kelly: Err Well none that can be detected yet, but we have come up with a new scheme to reclassify many of the truanters as being on a chav apprentice scheme and so can be removed from the numbers.

ChrisB

Tell you what, let's pay kids to go to school or college.

Oh, hang on, they already do

unclebuck

Who the hell is Ruth Kelly anyway? Another here today, gone tomorrow, incompetent 'on message' New Labour no-mark.

Who was in charge of the rotton mess they call education before her? Oh yes, Charles Clark who is now making an equally useless job of being Home Secretary.

God, we need to be rid of this lot.

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Amazing: a committee of MPs has just published a report saying that all the millions spent on anti-trunacy measures have had no effect whatsoever, but, of course, SHE'S got a different report that says they are having a wonderful effect
She wouldn't say WHAT report though!

And does anyone else find it strange that the woman appointed to be in charge of STATE education, went right through her own education in the private sector?

And to cap it all, 4 kids or no, SHE LOOKS, AND TALKS, LIKE A BLOKE!!!

Alcazar

SJ_Skyline

Better idea, based on the first one:

Mandatory death penalty for all memebers on new labour!

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

And before him? Oh yes, that nice Mr Blunkett who PROMISED to resign if standards weren't met ,and then didn't when they weren't, 'cos he'd had a job change so he reckoned he only meant to resign "if I was still in the education post".

Another lying fekker then!

Alcazar

SJ_Skyline

Alcazar,

To be fair Blunkett did resign, albeit to spend time with someone elses family!

Gordo

And aren't there even more ****e schools this year (per Ofsted) than ever before?

There was a bit of wriggling and spin around 'well, there are bound to be more underperformers as we're getting better at assessing them' -- errrrrr, not sure about that one.

Yet another example of Labour lies and economic waste.

Then there was the 'groundhog day announcement' earlier in the week, announcing a long term plan to get those on incapacity/disabled benefits back to work.....hmmmm, heard that one before (and this category has mainly gone up due to manipulation of the unemployment figures).

How can anyone vote for these clowns????

Gordo

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

The announcement of more failing schools was expected in education circles, or, at least, something like it, slagging off teachers.

Announcements like that ALWAYS precede the annual pay round

Alcazar

Sbradley

But because the BBC wants to make sure everyone understands, they treat us to gems like this. I mean, who'd have guessed?

As our colonial friends would say, "Well, duh."

SB

Mungo

Where's PSLewis to defend Tory B Liar when you need him?

Andy Tang

iTrader: (3)

With that sort of money wasted, they could have given teachers a pay rise, as well employ more teachers and reduce the ever rising class sizes!!

ajm

He'll no doubt be on later after he's got himself tiddly on the cooking sherry again!

OllyK

£1 Billion, that's about 30,000 more bureaucrats on £33K each.

Now as they reckon there are only 50K or so hard core truanters they could almost employ a minder for every damn one of them to ensure they get to school every day, and stay there.

SJ_Skyline

Probably busy counting his money and consequentially won't be available for comment until March!!

Leslie

These NL activists are always very careful what they reply to. They suffer from selective reading ability!

Les

ajm

He's online..... and so far your theory holds absolutely true!

ajm

Online again.... still ignoring it.... and wisely so. The amount of our money that Labour waste is indefensible!!!