To wonder when this government are going to stop destroying education?

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Dbro's children's school was on the news last night as the head was talking about the funding cuts.
Why are the government doing this? I can't see how this is going to mean kids leave school with the skills needed by the country.

Brexit will only make things worse. The answer in short is never, they’re the Tories and this is what they do. They won’t be content until everything is privatised.

Yes - they use the private education system, and couldn’t give a shiny shit.

They are stupid IMO - and can’t see beyond the ends of their own noses.

I'm a teacher. All my colleagues work incredibly hard with dwindling resources. It's just shocking.

Not only that but schools in poorer areas are having to use up a lot of their time, energy and resources to feed, clothe and support families with little or no income thanks to Universal Credit.

I've seen schools with washing machines installed because the amount of families with no access to one makes it simpler to just allow them to do it at school and schools where they're feeding Mothers in the morning as well as children because they're literally fainting from hunger.

It's a fucking travesty. It's like something from another century.

Rickets have been on the increase for a number of years too.

Yup....it's the Tories. Yetbpeople vote for them as 'they are good with the economy?' REALLY?

Tbh the electorate only has itself to blame unfortunately.

Besides having educated masses means a great threat to out wonderful caste system. Ooooops...i meant class system.

Why would the tories want ordinary people doing better for themselves?They do not beleive in sharing.

I agree that the electorate is to blame as a majority of us voted for them.

But the predominantly right wing media who continuously but surreptitiously push their own agenda and that of their fat cat cronies means that many people are persuaded to believe that the tories are the best party for our economy. At the same time the same media pushes a derogatory and negative impression of any more socialist parties and hey presto, enough people are persuaded time and time again to put and keep the tories in power.

I bet good money that if you look at where ‘academies’ are they will be concentrated in areas of economic deprivation. The places too weak to resist. It’s privatisation for profit of your children’s education.

Reflectant
Things baby boomers couldn’t give a shit about : their grandchildren’s education. Their children’s jobs. Their children having houses.
Things baby boomers care about: their “right” to pictures of grandchildren to show their friends, racist Brexit voting, house prices.

Why don't you fuck right off with your ageism? I'm a boomer. I care a great deal about education, jobs, the NHS, social services etc. I regularly write to my MP about these things. I am vehemently anti-Brexit, too, but don't let that get in the way of your bigotry.

majority of us voted for them.

Not now. TM runs a minority government propped up by a cash bung to the DUP (because they’re just as lovely) remember?

Why don't you fuck right off with your ageism? I'm a boomer.

I am 55.

I am 55
Then you ought to know better than to attribute particular views to certain age groups.

Really? You mean our generation aren’t smugly fond of our houses, free educations and brexit while bitching about millennials bringing it all on themselves? You must live in a nicer context than me.

Instep of blaming baby boomers etc, we should be throwing our anger right back to those in power.

Write to your MP instead of posting here.

They genuinely do listen and the more letters they get, the more worried they’ll be.

Seems old fashioned but do it.

The cuts are terrible and so are the Tories, but things were going badly wrong with the education system way before they were in power.

Reflectent. I don't intend to get into an argument with you about this. If that's how you feel you behave as an older person, then knock yourself out. I personally don't know anyone in my age group who is 'smugly fond' of the things you mention, or who isn't concerned about their children's and grandchildren's futures. Neither do I get suckered in by stupid generalisations put out by the media.

It all starts at preschool level too - telling parents they can have free preschool but not actually putting enough funding in place to pay for it.

Parents are being charged for random things or only have certain hours to choose from while preschools are having to cut everything they can to stay open.

Wouldn’t surprise me if our childcare and nurseries become state owned in time.

write to your MP. Haha. My MP is Nadine Dorries.

I personally don't know anyone in my age group who is 'smugly fond' of the things you mention, or who isn't concerned about their children's and grandchildren's futures.

I’m a millennial, child of boomer parents and boomer in laws. It may be a generalisation, but there’s no smoke without fire. My mother is, thankfully, understanding and sympathetic to the issues millennials face. My in laws, however, think we’re lazy and entitled because we can’t buy a house and enjoy wallowing in their money. They have to wallow in it really because their foul attitudes have lost them the relationships with the younger generation. Boomers like it exist.

Britain is not normally governed by a party with majority support. The 2010 coallition had over 50% but even labour in 1997 only had 45% of the vote.

Things baby boomers couldn’t give a shit about : their grandchildren’s education. Their children’s jobs. Their children having houses.

Don't tar us all with the same brush - none of my friends are like that except a thirty year old Tory voting teacher.

Boomers like it exist.
I'm sure they do. There are also younger people who think like this. You only need to read some of the MN threads about benefits to see this. My point is that this sort of ageist 'tarring a whole generation with the same brush' is unhelpful. Instead of pitting one generation against another, you should be looking at who is really responmsible for the paucity of housing, the worsening education system, the declining NHS etc. Really, what is the point of blaming 'boomers' who have no more power or influence over government policy than millenials do? It is simply deflecting the blame from where it really lies.

Really, what is the point of blaming 'boomers' who have no more power or influence over government policy than millenials do?

950000 boomers per year (mid 1960s birth rate)

650000 millennials per year (mid 1980s birth rate).

Boomers have way more power by force of numbers alone.

We have a Torie MP fat lot of good that will do. I work in education to I cry at the lack of funding in schools. I don't think think most parent's even relise how bad it is. I work in the science depenment we have no budget left this year till March. You need money to buy consumables in science, we'll manage somehow, teachers often bring things in. But it's so bad it's getting worse each year.