Reply #2: When my Dad was doing teacher training [View All]

[Guy_Montag]

at the end of the 60s, he did some months in a deprived area of Edinburgh.

In order to encourage the disruptive pupils to at least attend, they were given priviliges such as: counted as not playing truant if they were in between 10am & 2pm & got free entry to the local pool. There were various others which escape me now.

Eventually, of course, formaly well behaved pupils started acting up, so they too, would get the privilidges of those who had behaved badly from the start.

Seems to me, this is what they are suggesting, just couched in better terms.

Point two:

While at university, in the dying years of grants, one of my school friends, whose parents were seperated & lived with his mother & two sisters, got a full grant. (Only his Mum's income was counted). He lived the life of Reiley, since his father also paid for him through university. The point being, on paper he was not well off, in reality he was loaded.

Right time to turn off my closet Tory switch.