General Chat

I do think what everyone tends to forget is that this is not just the UK in a mess, all European economies (and USA) are trying to struggle out of recession.

it had an article on the news that Germany is doing rather better because its imports ( cars/engineering) are recovering well and nearly back at the level of before the crash.

i don't know how correct it is that we import twice as much as we export?

PMSL ,,DEBATE,,
I STILL STICK BY WHAT I SAID

WE HAVE A LOT OF HOMELESS IN B&B'S HERE
STRAIGHT OFF THE PLANE

Rose Germany make all the swing roundabouts ect
in all our british parks
the EEC say we should have theirs
why cant our factories make our own
and german inspectors come over here every year to stress test them
at our cost why cant somebody here do it
The Germans make sure the EEC benefits them
i think its time to tell them we can no longer afford them

Quite a bit of money is owed by foreign embassies in parking fines too!
In London alone, it amounts to £42 million!!!

Yet again - them's with money do what they bloody well want, while the rest of us pick up the tab!!!!

Yes Dizzi, off the plane from Poland and the likes, all knowing that the UK is a soft touch when it comes to handing out benefits to foreigners.....!!

This country needs a serious shake up, stop the spongers, help the poor, help those who have made a genuine contribution to society, help the sick, help those who have worked and lost their jobs through redundancy illness and the like...........

STOP handing out money to gym slip mothers who get knocked up knowing full well the state will pay!!

Just googling lol

Our Imports/Exports for 2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/feb/24/uk-trade-exports-imports

also when i went to school we had 42 kids to one teacher
never did me any harm

so why do some classes now need 2/3 class room assitants
class room assists are a waste of money
most of them only ever wash paint pots and tie shoe laces
if they need one let them have one only

Oh to add, I have friends from Poland who run a car wash company from 8am to 8am. They are hard working and hands up to them! But, even they agree too many from their country and the likes come here to scrounge!!

Pre-Fabs c 2010 could/would be built without asbestos!

i know of polish workers over here
claiming child befits for their kids back in Poland and go on claiming when they go home
they just get it paid through their British bank accounts

i also know Indians working here who also do it

Cant put the clock back to the election,

everyone wanted big changes from the last gov policies,now its going to happen everybody is up in arms.

another 5 years of Labour and we would have been totally and utterly bankrupt,

they have put country up to highest bidder-ha ha,

Answer for you Joy :))

We needed fewer teachers for larger classes ( after the first couple of years anyway) because the teacher stood at the front and the desks faced forward! None of this airy fairy 70s rubbish that put kids with their back to the teacher ( imo lol )

As for washing the paint pots etc, the children did that themselves, and filled the ink pots, handed out text books and cleaned the stockroom at the end of each term ( blimey I even remember polishing the desks ;))

Persimmons/Taylor Wimpey are the largest house builders in the UK, when building private new homes they HAVE to build housing association properties (council houses) none of these are concrete prefabs!!!!

Carol, can you elaborate?

There a lot of old and empty buildings around and they could be put to good use for families if converted properly. In Eastbourne there is a lot of property suitable for housing but is left empty. A house in Newhaven has been empty for years when it would serve a family.

good answer rose and so true
so why pay some body to do it

it teaches the children responsibility
and we always had parents helping out in school for free

I disagree (and its not cos Im a CA Im NOT Im a TA bit difference) they ar there for a number of reasons including reassurance of the children ~ me Im there to make a difference

i never said i was on about you mel
i dont know what you do
i am on about Class assistant in general
we never needed them and

they dont now its a waste of money we cant afford

teachers are well paid
i know i was responsible for interviewing them for their jobs
and they should be doing the job without fuss
if they cant do the job they shouldn't be doing it

Neither did I ~ I did say I disagree and its not cos I am one etc I still disagree from my point of view an SEN pupil walked away with 13 and a half GCSE's in summer without ar intervention he would have got nowhere but he did that not us we only helped

Well I agree we had no classroom assistants in my day and yes we tided up after ourselves , which surely was a good thing to teach kids , then I think in the 70s what was called a remedial teacher was available for the slower pupils , so what is a classroom assistant or a teaching assistant for ?

a classroom assistant or aid lightens the teachers load and a teaching assistant helps break down the work to enable the child to access the curriculum I went to remedial classes and yes I later got qualifications but left with nothing we give each child the opportunity to reach their potential there may be a number of reasons someone needs the help and intervention.