silverfox

StraferJack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > which school, silverfox? I think it would be wrong to name the school. It's the example I was highlighting. Children need to learn what failure is so they can strive to improve. It also helps them appreciate achievement after effort. This applies in all areas including sport. Too many schools, for example, have adopted contradictory notions of uncompetitive competition. Nobody loses lest it discriminates against or offends others. This is not preparing children for the real world.

A young schoolchild told me that when they mark their spellings in class they put a tick for correct spellings and a dot for incorrect spellings. When I said why don't they use a cross (X) for wrong spellings I was told it may hurt people's feelings. Political Correctness Gone Mad? I bet they wouldn't do this in Free Schools. Bring back a big fat X in red ink I say.

I'm sure a dinosaur knew when it was dinner time - nothing indefinite about that, especially if you were the prey.

Stanford's map shows a church marked on Camberwell Cemetery so it could be that if the view on Surrey Rifles print is looking south east

The point about dinosaurs dear MP is that they can be said to have been in an era - the age of the dinosaurs etc. an era has a starting point and an end. what is plainly absurd about 'CE' is it can't be defined, as Huguenot has demonstrated. Ergo, Anno Domini makes more sense (to labour the Latin) as it can be used indefinitely whereas the common era has to come to an end. This is the problem with PC, its adherents are idiots.

It's crap. Also, when is 'CE' supposed to run from and when will it end? will we still be in 'CE' in a million years time? the Chinese, Muslims and Jews can have their own references - it doesn't offend me, why should it? eg, they can have as many lunar calendars as they wish and if it's their year of the pig, the year of the rat, the year of the Huguenot, good luck to them. It's better than having hundreds of thousands of year of the common era (again).

I've frequently seen it written in American works so it won't be long before it's in common usage here

Complete and utter madness. Common Era??? what the hell is all that about - what does it mean? the dinosaurs ruled for 200 million years, is that a common era? And, to prove their own idiocy, BCE and Ace both equate to BC and AD. They'll be banning advertising of peanuts soon because one person in a million is allergic to them.

Is the church in the top right the former church at the top of Barry RD (now a hostel)?

It did occur to me Mockney you were making a mistake posting this in this section

It's not really a question of winning or losing a debate Timster. Parents make all sorts of decisions that affect children and impose their beliefs and behaviour on them. Well-adjusted children will eventually make their own minds up. How many children brought up in vegetarian households will be asking McDonalds to supersize them in years to come?

Yes. What an eyesore.

Children are also subjected to maths and history and brain washing about five a day and global warming - so what?

And...Einstein may be wrong - neutrinos may travel faster than light (TBC or to be refuted)

If it were just temporary, say six weeks, to cover scaffolding then there's probably no harm in it. The alternative would only be that green strong netting which would be uglier. Could part of any permission be that the company benefitting and the advertisers make a reasonable/proportionate donation to local charities?

Those disgraceful practices may still happen in backward parts of the world, eg Iran, Afghanistan etc. Funnily enough, they don't like diversity in their schooling systems either. Perhaps there's a link?

I'm sure we would all agree it would be wrong for the state to make us all dress the same way, in Mao Zedong style suits. Nor would it be appropriate for the state to try to make us all look the same, with the same hairstyles, only one colour of lipstick, eye-shadow etc While such efforts in social engineering may go some way towards minimising discrimination it would be at the expense of individualism and diversity. This is why the military has these dress and haircut codes. Why then do some people insist we are all taught the same,in uniform schools all following the same curriculum? Why are some people so frightened by different ideas that conflict with their own?

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Hamlet, Act I scene v

Imagine that with a big golden m on it with the wording "McDonald's only five minutes away in Peckham" (Then again, imagine a wonderbra ad ...)

Is the mock-up to scale John?

?1 can be a profit. The nursery might generate a profit several times greater than previously and be more useful to the community. Where are the facts rather than the hearsay?

Agreed Mikeb, Lots of emotive talk on this subject, no actual figures as to what the hall was costing the church for the (few?) actual people who used the hall. Question, will the East Dulwich community really be put out by the demise of this hall? Personally I never set foot in it

Great angst over a Muslim free school opening in Blackburn. Good. The more free schools that open, including creationist etc, the more liberal our society will become. There is a mistaken view in this country that the more we are all taught the same the more tolerant we become as a society. Deeeeer, as my kids would say, you only become tolerant with diversity.

Is that Sean MacGabhann taking junior out for the day?

Your ?20 is in the post NM