What is a skills based curriculum?

[skewiff]

Our primary school says one of its aims is to make the curriculum more skills based?

What does this mean?

I'm not sure why you believe things are heated your remarks were very cool and carefully thought out. Please don't sell yourself short.
You are of course free to post on any thread you wish.

magdalene, you aren't misreading things. You are being talked down to, but at least you have been given permission to post on any thread you like...

brdgrl I'm afraid you're misreading things too ...

brdgrl - I assume you haven't seen magdalene's posts where she is abusive towards mrz, in particular her ds? You probably won't have, since they were deleted for containing personal attacks.

I would be very if someone posted something as nasty about my ds on here and would let rip - but mrz has conducted herself with decorum in dignity in response. No idea then why you have felt the need to fan the flames a little.

actually Feenie my post was an attempt to politely tell magdalene to stuff her apology because I'm not interested ... I wish I'd kept it simple

I wouldn't be anywhere near as polite - things have certainly gone beyond the pale on MN when posters are nasty about others' dcs.

You are right that I missed any personal attacks that she posted, and I am sorry if it appeared that I was condoning that. I was not so much defending magdalene, as it happens, as objecting to the tone of condescension. I have been following the thread from its start, though; have seen plenty of the 'talking down'. I dropped out of posting on it at the point where it became clear that it was not an exchange of ideas for some posters, but simply an opportunity to insist upon their own viewpoint over and over again, and to discount or devalue any one who disagreed.
I will leave it now, as you are quite right that there is no point in contributing to the "debate".

Yes brdgirl this thread wasn't really an exchange of opinions. More of an opportunity to insist on certain points of view. I think a lot of mumsnet is like that.

Is that your excuse for stooping as low as you did then, magdalene? Because, fortunately, not a lot of MN is like that.

People resolutely disagreeing with your opinion and sticking rigidly by their own is not the same thing as failing to exchange opinions, magdalene. It's just refusing to change your mind, having listened to alternative opinions... It may be irritating, but then I don't think you changed your opinion one iota, either, did you? If you did, I missed it in all your apparent rage. Making snide remarks about someone's child was irrelevant to the exchange of opinions and unpleasant to read.

Well, I did read the other viewpoints rabbitstew. I think a lot of this has been blown out of proportion. Yes, I shouldn't have made some comments but calling mrz's son a 'child prodigy' was not sarcastic - she has said he read at the age of 2!

I've also said my son is hyperlexic

Your whole post on that particular subject was nasty, and below the belt, as intended. We don't sneer at each other's children here, magdalene. And even when you knew that poster was going through something terrible in rl you continued to bully them on a different thread.

Seriously, I would shut up if I were you. You aren't doing yourself any favours.

hyperlexia

I did not know what was going on with mrz's son in rl until I had posted actually. That's below the belt given a good friend of mine is a depressive and has suicide attempts.

I am sorry but I don't know what byperlexia is mrz

that is why I included the link

You posted a nasty post to mrz 48 hours AFTER knowing you had made the most horrific faux pas two days before.

Your behaviour was nothing short of bullying, magdalene.