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Timmy Elsewhere

April 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments

The Guardian publishes research that might not be showing what they think it is.

Instead of single sex education, perhaps it setting or streaming by ability that is needed?

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  • 1 Matthew // Apr 28, 2008 at 5:06 pm

    “Bring back the 5+!”

    Maybe you can get it into the UKIP manifesto?

  • 2 dearieme // Apr 28, 2008 at 6:31 pm

    “Bring back the 5+!” Of course: my Primary school was streamed. Bloody sensible, especially with classes of about 45.

  • 3 Monty // Apr 28, 2008 at 8:31 pm

    My primary school was streaming too, if we weren’t crying, wetting our knickers or spilling our school milk we were being sick on the parquet floor.
    Plenty of sawdust….

    I think splitting them up by gender might help to sort out the differentials in language and numeracy. But traditionally, schools have used the influence of the girls to squash some of the worst excesses of the boys behaviour.

  • 4 Tim Newman // Apr 28, 2008 at 9:01 pm

    I went to both a mixed school and then an all boys school. As an environment purely for academic learning, the latter was by far the better.

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