she's electric
i haven't had the energy or the motivation to write aything this week, which i know is terrible. i haven't been too depressed thankfully, just too... preoccupied with random shite like the head girl speech and bastard physics homework and thinking about effective ways to get money etc. oh my joyous life...
ahh pete looked so beautiful in the picture of him sitting on the sofa in nme... finally out of jail... arrrgh the fucking pathetic tabloid headlines are driving me insane. basically all pete tried to do was try to steal some money off someone and probably hit him a few times at the same time. the fucking tabloids are coming out with shit about him wanting to buy heroin and being in a desperate state and poor vulnerable innocent kate moss being a victim of his ruthless lifestyle. fuck them. kate moss is a fully grown woman who has every opportunity not to go out with him. besides the person that pete attacked had sold a load of photos of him doing heroin to the mirror, so although i realise the extent of his addiction, let's face it, he probably had the right to be annoyed. the mirror can die in hell. it's pretty scary though, paying £150,ooo to get out of jail. as ben says, it's the price of freedom.
tim i really feel i need make myself clear regarding out argument earlier: i completely disagree that it is not alrght to discriminate againt people because of their class, but it is fine for less able people to have no right to an education. i hate to disappoint you, but this is elitist, presumptuous bullshit. i agree that there were strengths in the grammar school system, mainly that high achieving working class kids who passed their 11+ get a very supportive, challenging education. however the reason i believe this is wrong is that it deprives all the less able working class children from getting a good education at all, as they are the ones who ended up in the comprehensive schools without resources, with large class sizes, no individual support, violence and poor teaching. i suppose in tim's world everyone below a certain ability are not in fact citizens of society and don't deserve a job or education. is that meant to be equal and fair and just?! another thing that annoys me about tim's fascist philosophies: his concern that the highest paid people in britain are migrating abroad in order to escape the high taxes. seriously, what kind of person would leave the country simply because 12% of their £4.5 billion annual income is going to the government? blatantly someone incredibly corrupt. i don't see how tim can possibly believe that this will cause some sort of "brain drain" while at the same time arguing that "too many people are going to university and this will be a strain on the lower paid jobs". tim, you really fucking frustrate me.
subliminal message: isn't is annoying when people stand directly behind you and read what you are writing without acknowledging their presence? hint hint paul wells, fuck off to your german lesson...
ditto tascha.
okey doke. it's word count time! half of the corner cult suck, as virtually nobody has updated in the last week, but thjen i can't really talk, not having updated mine sicne friday, or something distant like that. you see seriously nothing particularly interesting actually happened since then, and i could go on about my mother and her fascist regime, tim and his fascist regime, and my tedious home life, but i'm sure nobody would be faintly interested. and sadly i dont have several gigabytes of random fiction saved on my computer like ben, nor do i have a boyfriend to talk about, like berengere, or pages of binary and tory politics like tim. in fact, i am doomed, and i seem to have lost all of my spontanaiety over the last few days. where was i? oh yeah, something about a word count. ironic, the way i use everyone else's word count to top up my own.
yeah, so here goes...
ben - we have a winner. 5,111 words. holy fuck.
berengere - 4,952 words. ben still has competition...
tim - 4,674 words. seems to have realised his blog is not necessarily the best place to promote the conservative party.
me -3,926. njot bad going. and that doesn't include this entry...
tascha (prob. offended as i didn't include her in the last official *word count*) - 2,299 words.
michael gardiner - 1,235.
phil - 952.
sarah - still 813 words.
theo - 634, an impressive achievement!
louise - 366 words (again)
paul wells - 328.
katrina - still 308 words. rubbish.
michael jones - can't be fucked counting all his scary words.
lalalalalalalala i can't be bothered with today, no tk, no french, no art, no lessons, no brain, no aim, no purpose, no sense, no excitement, no vigour, no passion, no energy, no life.... i am going to eat a piece of cheese. no screw that, i have no money.
jesus, i have been writing this thing since period 2! holy fuck, what an achievement! it is now period 5! i should just keep doing this all day! halleluyah!
am now listening to a cd of the trashiest '90s dance music ever. yay!
anyway, i am SO not going to spend all day on my blog, that would be pathetic and time-wasting.
seeya buddies
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5 Comments:
Ok, with the current system those from Working Class backgrounds end up with a crap education full stop. Not that I say we should return to old system. I don't think we should, but what I actually advocate would probably make you spew viterol to an even greater degree.
Second, what the hell! I didn't argue that 12% would make them leave, but 80% did. If you are going to insult me, at least do it plausably. Corrupt or not, we still needed them. Third: "too many people are going to university and this will be a strain on the lower paid jobs". -- What?! Yes note, we don't have an 80% tax rate anymore. Such is life, first everyone is thick, then overtrained. However, thankyou for the regime comment, I assure you once all, one, of us takes over, you lot shall be first against the wall.
"with the current system those from Working Class backgrounds end up with a crap education full stop". actually this is where you are mistaken. it's only if comprehensives take a selective approach that working class kids end up at the crap schools. at my old school there were hardly any middle class kids, and no selection at all. i did not choose to go specifically to this school because it was the most middle class, or the most high achieving, it ws simply my local mixed comp. i now refer you to the following links: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3397735.stm http://education.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=607240&host=16&dir=365 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/education/04/school_tables/secondary_schools/html/316_5400.stm
stratford school is the 29th most improved school in the country. believe me, i only left because it didn't have a sixth form. and i didn't come to the anglo because it's a middle class school, or because it's a high achieving school, but purely for the course it offers.
p.s. fuck you.
"it's only if comprehensives take a selective approach that working class kids end up at the crap schools." -- Firstly, only if the selective approach was based on class, otherwise the selection would be based on merit and ability, as well which course you wish to take, rather than on where you live. Currently, the school you go to depends on where you live rather than your ability. Which is what I disagree with. Unless all working class people are stupid, then they would not end up being in the 'crap schools'. Given that most of my family are/were working class, I assure you they aren't stupid (See, I even managed to get the little background argument in.)
Pretty much everything else you said with I agreed with, you went to the school because it was your catchment area, rather than because of achievement, effort etc. So because you lived in a certain place, your school was determined for you. Now imagine that people couldn't afford housing near those schools. Hence we have some foolish class determined school system. Re-read what I have written, and don't just disagree with it on the basis, that '[he's] a facist bastard, and always has facist plans to crush the masses'. Like it or not, I'm on of the masses, dear Gwen.
PS. Nope :P
obviously there are working class kids who are high achieving and who will not be turned away from selective, high achieving schools. however the kids who miss out on the best schools because of their ability are generally working class kids who are disadvantaged. at my old school if you were caught with cigarettes/drugs of any kind you immediately faced suspension/expulsion. however from what i've heard of the anglo people in year 11 get away with alot more: this is simply because they are priveledged and get alot of support from their parents, therefore they can get away with doing drugs whilst still producing results which satisfy the school. this is a typical example of how middle class kids are at an advantage in the education system. i'm not saying that 'working class kids are stupid'. nor am i saying anything about fascism, i have no idea where all that came from, i am simply saying that when schools take a selective approach it is often the working class kids who miss out. besides i do not believe that an education system based on ability is fair and just on any level.
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