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[Z] *noddes sagely* - but you can't deny that many village schools still exist.

GD...Northumberland (UK) used the "middle" school system up until last year. The system in the north is now "primary" and "secondary" in the main. W Somerset...about 700km from me..fair trot.

Sure, Z. But the one that I used to walk to had only 24 children in it, aged 5 - 11, and is now a very nice house. Bizzarely, after it was sold, part of the garden was sold to my parents and my father grew sweetpeas in it.

I love living in the area I grew up in. I had better stop now or I will start my standard rural Britain rant - demograhics section.

Ben

*returning us back to the original topic*

B

Thought you and Anhaga had a thing going Ben: I had you marked as a Canuk. Must be mistaken...another "broad called Ben" over there. I suppose you could be a jet-set type perhaps. You work for Air Canada then?

the fact that we were twins, changed your mind then ,no longer twin.
Have you really had to supply all your addresses since age 14,mine at 25 was 40 plus mind you worked in hotels for several years.

comeing back to schools closeing down,(re ben geting on bandwagon you should)demographics and all that ,many of these rural schools began to close down following the "beeching report" my thoughts.The knock on effect being closeure of of main route shops,ect

allthough these where not noticeable for many years and the goverment tried to redress the problem (see comments on flat cat thread)to little to late in my view.

Ah Beeching... My "Networking theory as applied to the Railways" rant!



B

I get the drift that Mr Blair is not exactly committed to education for all. I mean look at the folks on here. We ALL could have done with more. And there is more to education than getting spellings and grammar right. So "carpers" get your straps tight.

Beeching chopped the rail network about '58 I think. I used to watch the kids go on the train to the private school in Barnard Castle UK when I was about 5 or 6 years..vivid memory. Bit like "The Railway Children Film" except they were those first diesel units, only two carriages to the train.

[Hyp]

The dubiously honorable governor of the state of New Jersey wants to eliminate no-school and one-school districts here on the assumption that they are a wasteful and inefficient. He didn't bother to check the fact that the average cost per pupil in these districts is actually slightly lower that than the overall state average cost per pupil.

My younger daughter is in a k-8 school that has 87 children in it. That is one of the reasons I moved her there. You can't beat the individual attention each student gets in a school like that.

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[GDZ]

[ BC up and irritable after sleeping poorly thru the afternoon]

Well, I'm sad that my Panthers lost tonight. Would have been nice to see the Kitties win, but I'll live.

Back at work again. I'm considering just setting up a tent.

*curls up on the sofa looking slightly lonely and sips *

[BC overjoyed he has won $10 from a customer due to the Patriots victory.]

Gambling is illegal in Utah so don't tell anyone ! Not that I'll be able to collect, I'm sure.....

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