So, what happened today?

[scaramanga]

But does being selective on religious grounds guarantee good kids?

As I've said it's not the religious angle, it's having any type of layer of 'them and us' criteria. I thought all areas of life was correctly squeezing this type of thinking out.
They're a state school funded by all of us, the school can have their preference and by all means promote themselves as a CofE leaning school and be a greater attraction to students whom think likewise BUT I can't see how they can force that on the education authority during the selection process.

Being selective means they can kick out pretty much any kid for any reason. The state schools then have to deal with them.

So by getting rid of those who behave poorly, they can spend more time educating and get better results.

Many of them receive sizeable donations and can run smaller classes too.

 

[Gutter Boy]

I haven't been in the UK since 94 what has happened to the NHS. It was once the envy of the world

Backdoor privatisation. All the money (deliberately) leaks out to the private sector through PPPs, procurement and murky big pharma deals. The PPE fraud one hundred fold over

 

[markysimmo]

Got called in by my manager today

They are cutting short my 6 month contract by 2 months because the 2 projects I'm responsible for are pretty much done and they havent' got any other work for me to do in their future project pipeline
The COO can't justify paying me my day rate if I don't have anything to do, fair do's
Serves me right for working hard and getting my projects massively ahead of schedule, lesson learn't hahaha
Pretty amateurish of the company to bring me in though knowing there isn't that much work to do really though

Put myself back on LinkedIn and it's at least a very bouyant market currently and I've got 8 good leads for new roles to look at

 

[Bullet]

Got called in by my manager today

They are cutting short my 6 month contract by 2 months because the 2 projects I'm responsible for are pretty much done and they havent' got any other work for me to do in their future project pipeline
The COO can't justify paying me my day rate if I don't have anything to do, fair do's
Serves me right for working hard and getting my projects massively ahead of schedule, lesson learn't hahaha
Pretty amateurish of the company to bring me in though knowing there isn't that much work to do really though

Put myself back on LinkedIn and it's at least a very bouyant market currently and I've got 8 good leads for new roles to look at

Yes, that was a bit foolish. At least you can use that outcome to your benefit when looking for new roles, i.e. I got a 6 month project done in 4 months.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

Being selective means they can kick out pretty much any kid for any reason. The state schools then have to deal with them.

So by getting rid of those who behave poorly, they can spend more time educating and get better results.

Many of them receive sizeable donations and can run smaller classes too.

The school I'm talking about is a state school.

Someone sits on the school board from the diocese but by all reports, the church contribute nothing financially.

 

[scaramanga]

The school I'm talking about is a state school.

Someone sits on the school board from the diocese but by all reports, the church contribute nothing financially.

They must still have control over who attends - otherwise they wouldn't be able to make people go to church to get their kids in.

They will also benefit from the "parents who give a fudge" effect. I suspect many of the parents of the kids there would not have attended church but for wanting their kid to attend a good school. If a significant portion of the parents at a school actively give a fudge and value their kids' education that highly, you've made a running start.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

They must still have control over who attends - otherwise they wouldn't be able to make people go to church to get their kids in.

That's largely my point, they do have (via a supplementary form to prove your a church goer, then cross verified by your vicar), but this layer (control) should not exist at a state funded school.

 

[scaramanga]

That's largely my point, they do have (via a supplementary form to prove your a church goer, then cross verified by your vicar), but this layer (control) should not exist at a state funded school.

It shouldn't be allowed. But if it wasn't allowed it would be no different to the rest and you'd be finding some way to get your kid(s) into another school.

 

[johnola]

Is the mode and the time your kids spend getting to school important to your choices?

Not only is this dead time for them they get tired and hungry travelling putting all the best laid plans at risk. I appreciate this might not be such a big deal in the cities as it is for those where public transport is crap and schools are miles away.

 

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

The model is out of date due to many factors, no political party want to admit it or tell the people what it would cost them to meet their false expectations.

Went to one of the appointments I was trying to get confirmed, after arriving and going to book in on the super electronic system to find it wasn't working and had to see the overrun receptionist, she informed us to go to an other floor to book in. On arriving we put my wife's details on the screen to be told they had no record of her, surprising as we have used this hospital since the 50's and both my children were born there, after seeing an other receptionist we were directed to the specific unit to book in we finally managed to get registered, we were greeted by an intern on time and taken to the consulting room, just to cap the visit off I recieved a call from my daughter in law while talking to the consultant that she had recieved a call from the hospital to ask why we weren't there. Hopefully the medical side of the service in better than their admin.

 

[johnola]

@markysimmo. I’m not sure if it is impacting blood tests where you are yet but the nhs future health program is rolling out a big analysis of 5 million random Brits. And you have to book a blood test.

Having just enrolled, I could book a test from November 1st onwards.

 

[johnola]

Went to one of the appointments I was trying to get confirmed, after arriving and going to book in on the super electronic system to find it wasn't working and had to see the overrun receptionist, she informed us to go to an other floor to book in. On arriving we put my wife's details on the screen to be told they had no record of her, surprising as we have used this hospital since the 50's and both my children were born there, after seeing an other receptionist we were directed to the specific unit to book in we finally managed to get registered, we were greeted by an intern on time and taken to the consulting room, just to cap the visit off I recieved a call from my daughter in law while talking to the consultant that she had recieved a call from the hospital to ask why we weren't there. Hopefully the medical side of the service in better than their admin.

That is irritating.
I’ve had to take my parents to literally dozens of different departments in several different hospital across two different trusts and never had any issues like that. Mri scans, X-rays, neurology, cardiac, cancer, ultrasound, blood tests, mobile breast screening, mobile imaging, skin specialists and so on.
Only the cardiac unit had the auto login service and that involved scanning a qr code on the letter - worked fine.
This was between Surrey & Sussex, and St Helier & Epsom trusts.

 

[johnola]

That is irritating.
I’ve had to take my parents to literally dozens of different departments in several different hospital across two different trusts and never had any issues like that. Mri scans, X-rays, neurology, cardiac, cancer, ultrasound, blood tests, mobile breast screening, mobile imaging, skin specialists and so on.
Only the cardiac unit had the auto login service and that involved scanning a qr code on the letter - worked fine.
This was between Surrey & Sussex, and St Helier & Epsom trusts.

The thing I would say is that a lot of these investigative procedures were futile. My dad just wanted some relief from headaches and my mum had anaemia.

They both still have these conditions.

How much did that all cost!

 

[ShipOfTheseus]

The thing I would say is that a lot of these investigative procedures were futile. My dad just wanted some relief from headaches and my mum had anaemia.

They both still have these conditions.

How much did that all cost!

The NHS has become a fiendishly expensive system which does almost nothing but worry people that they might have cancer, check methodically and very slowly to see whether they have cancer, then when cancer is ruled out abruptly lose all interest in them and their ongoing symptoms, however irksome or life-limiting those may be.

 

[johnola]

The NHS has become a fiendishly expensive system which does almost nothing but worry people that they might have cancer, check methodically and very slowly to see whether they have cancer, then when cancer is ruled out abruptly lose all interest in them and their ongoing symptoms, however irksome or life-limiting those may be.

My dads headaches are considerably more disruptive for him than his skin cancer or his prostate cancer- he had already elected not to have treatments for either as they were utterly gruesome and would have had a negative impact on his quality of life.

 

[P.D.]

My year 6 daughter will be moving schools next September. So we've been doing the tours of the various secondaries in my area.

Needless to say some 'appear' and view better than others and so we have our preferences.

Rather annoyingly the admissions policy of our probable first choice is still weighted massively towards church going parents and children. 240 places in total...215 foundation places (ie church going)....25 community spaces (ie non church going).

The issue I have is nothing to do with their religious outlook but that this policy is still allowed to be implemented. I could maybe understand if it was a private school, (but even then, much like private/corporate companies you expect them to follow discrimination, inclusiveness and equality policies) but this is one of the choices for state education, preferenced on your local education application form and allocated by the local education authority BUT only once they've taken this schools admissions policy into a account. This is a bit WTF to me?. It's a state school funded by taxpayers. I am surprised this hasn't been challenged, not least by the local authority themselves.

It's CofE, and my daughter attends a CofE primary at the moment...so she's (probably) had a grounding in their beliefs. We are not church goers but some non church goers we know have been going to clock up the required two years, which to me is disingenuous and faux.

I probably wouldn't mind as much if the split was 50/50 rather than 8%.

Strange but then by the same token grammar schools shouldn't exist. I guess it's a historical thing, I'm sure if there was a school with being Muslim, Hindu or any other non christian religion as the criteria it would be all over the news. My primary changed to a CofE part way through when I was there and don't remember much in the way of religious classes, nativity plays were at the local church but everything else stayed as it was as far as I can remember

 

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

My dads headaches are considerably more disruptive for him than his skin cancer or his prostate cancer- he had already elected not to have treatments for either as they were utterly gruesome and would have had a negative impact on his quality of life.

My wife decided not to have surgery on her face as the procedure sounded gruesome and would require multiple minor ops and plastic surgery, opted for a cream treatment, she has had 5 surgical procedures in the last 7 years and none have been a complete sucess.

 

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

That is irritating.
I’ve had to take my parents to literally dozens of different departments in several different hospital across two different trusts and never had any issues like that. Mri scans, X-rays, neurology, cardiac, cancer, ultrasound, blood tests, mobile breast screening, mobile imaging, skin specialists and so on.
Only the cardiac unit had the auto login service and that involved scanning a qr code on the letter - worked fine.
This was between Surrey & Sussex, and St Helier & Epsom trusts.

We are with all plebs at Guys and St.Thomas trust.

 

[johnola]

My wife decided not to have surgery on her face as the procedure sounded gruesome and would require multiple minor ops and plastic surgery, opted for a cream treatment, she has had 5 surgical procedures in the last 7 years and none have been a complete sucess.

Bless her. Doubly hard on a lady all that.

 

[markysimmo]

Got called in by my manager today

They are cutting short my 6 month contract by 2 months because the 2 projects I'm responsible for are pretty much done and they havent' got any other work for me to do in their future project pipeline
The COO can't justify paying me my day rate if I don't have anything to do, fair do's
Serves me right for working hard and getting my projects massively ahead of schedule, lesson learn't hahaha
Pretty amateurish of the company to bring me in though knowing there isn't that much work to do really though

Put myself back on LinkedIn and it's at least a very bouyant market currently and I've got 8 good leads for new roles to look at

Got 2 interviews scheduled in for early next week, which is good and quick