Eton College Middlesbrough

Cogeur_le_Conq

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Not sure if this has been posted.

Since I've been back in the UK and having studied almost every inch of Teesside in Google Earth, I've noticed 'academies' all over the shop.

I guess education in Britain must have been privatised during my hiatus.

Its bad enough that Eton has charitable status and shyts out pig sh@gging, £50 pound note burning bully boys. They're actually going to re-educate us like the Chinese do to Uyghurs.

This country stinks...


 
Private schools are now under a lot more pressure to justify charitable status, hence projects like this. It does seem odd but not surprising to use for Eton though considering the cabinet's background. It would be more useful for Yarm or Barnard Castle to actually partner with them as more local schools.

I work in an academy but not in Boro. They have sorted out a lot of failing schools but have a bad rep for treatment of staff. Star Academy are tory darlings, will be interesting to see how it goes.
 
Always amazes me why these schools have charitable status. It seems the more you have and the richer you are the less you put in the pot.
Eton was originally created to educate underprivileged kids which is why it was a charity.

It has since developed into a school for the privelaged and not street urchins.
 
Always amazes me why these schools have charitable status. It seems the more you have and the richer you are the less you put in the pot.
Most of the big public (schools) have assisted or free places for intelligent kids from less well off backgrounds. (They have to sit the entrance exams). Up to 10%+ of the pupils can be on these places. If a child is from a wealthy background, they will be paying full fees.
 
Not sure if this has been posted.

Since I've been back in the UK and having studied almost every inch of Teesside in Google Earth, I've noticed 'academies' all over the shop.

I guess education in Britain must have been privatised during my hiatus.

Its bad enough that Eton has charitable status and shyts out pig sh@gging, £50 pound note burning bully boys. They're actually going to re-educate us like the Chinese do to Uyghurs.

This country stinks...


On the whole I actually think it's a positive move, not a negative one. It could certainly provide the kids who gain places at the sixth form college with a great opportunity. The only downside will be if they all end up working in London / elsewhere after university, rather than back on Teesside.
 
On the whole I actually think it's a positive move, not a negative one. It could certainly provide the kids who gain places at the sixth form college with a great opportunity. The only downside will be if they all end up working in London / elsewhere after university, rather than back on Teesside.

Sadly, that's the story of the UK's small towns since the 90s. Anyone interested might read David Goodhart's books.
 
Academies were a New Labour creation weren't they? I seem to remember the idea was to give struggling schools more autonomy from Local Authorities. I could be wrong though.
 
On the whole I actually think it's a positive move, not a negative one. It could certainly provide the kids who gain places at the sixth form college with a great opportunity. The only downside will be if they all end up working in London / elsewhere after university, rather than back on Teesside.
This is my sentiment regarding the cream of the crop being cherried picked and moving away but who are we to deny them this opportunity.
 
Academies were a New Labour creation weren't they? I seem to remember the idea was to give struggling schools more autonomy from Local Authorities. I could be wrong though.
Yes your wrong, John Major started academies, but new Labour did grasp the idea and accelerated it, new Labour did lots of great things, but some very not so great. It should have abolished academies not accelerated them. Local people now have very little say on how their local schools are ran.
 
Yes your wrong, John Major started academies, but new Labour did grasp the idea and accelerated it, new Labour did lots of great things, but some very not so great. It should have abolished academies not accelerated them. Local people now have very little say on how their local schools are ran.
I retired this year from working in an academy. My role had gone from trying to prevent students from being excluded to fast-tracking them out of the door. I could have sat there on a decent wage, topping my pension up but It just didn't sit right with me.

A lot of teaching staff turned a blind eye to this and were happy to have unruly students out of their classrooms - not all I hasten to add.
 
Blair started academies and you were correct Nero. They were his “brainchild” in 2000 - 3 years after his election.
Acklam Hall was my old school and it’s a disaster it isn’t still there.
 
“The Labour Government under Tony Blair established academies through the Learning and Skills Act 2000,[29] which amended the section of the Education Act 1996 relating to City Technology Colleges.[30] They were first announced in a speech by David Blunkett, then Secretary of State for Education and Skills, in 2000.[31][32][33] He said that their aim was "to improve pupil performance and break the cycle of low expectations." As of 2018 many academies are struggling financially and running deficits.[34]

The chief architect of the policy was Andrew Adonis (now Lord Adonis, formerly Secretary of State at the Department for Transport) in his capacity as education advisor to the Prime Minister in the late 1990s.[35]

Academies were known as City Academies for the first few years, but the term was changed to Academies by an amendment in the Education Act 2002.[36] The term Sponsored Academies was applied retroactively to this type of academy, to distinguish it from other types of academy that were enabled later.”
 
I retired this year from working in an academy. My role had gone from trying to prevent students from being excluded to fast-tracking them out of the door. I could have sat there on a decent wage, topping my pension up but It just didn't sit right with me.

A lot of teaching staff turned a blind eye to this and were happy to have unruly students out of their classrooms - not all I hasten to add.
Norman - your experience not unusual I'm afraid. While there are some good Academies left, and many top quality staff working in even the worst of them, they are very often a viper's nest of unethical practices - with endemic bullying of staff and dehumanisation of students all too common. Lying, manipulation of statistics, OFSTED cronyism are other Unique Selling Points to enjoy. Your principled exit is admirable.

You may find my novel, Zero Tolerance, a satire on these schools (with a sub plot about treatment of refugees) accurate and a little bit funny. Give it a go - it's cheap as chips for the ebook version.


ZERO TOLERANCE
The Old Grey Owl
 
Not sure if this has been posted.

Since I've been back in the UK and having studied almost every inch of Teesside in Google Earth, I've noticed 'academies' all over the shop.

I guess education in Britain must have been privatised during my hiatus.

Its bad enough that Eton has charitable status and shyts out pig sh@gging, £50 pound note burning bully boys. They're actually going to re-educate us like the Chinese do to Uyghurs.

This country stinks...


It stinks to me, we are going backwards
 
For me part of the post 1970 philosophy of neo liberalism was breaking the strength of the working class which included attacking their educational establishments. It continues today.
 
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