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by loringa
Wed Dec 01, 2021 9:21 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
Replies: 53
Views: 35465

Re: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'

Loringa. Reading your post you seem to be opening the country open to a non-violent (initially) takeover by a foreign culture / nation. No, I am not. I am simply making the point that the laws are written to serve the people of a country, any country. We now have approximately 13% of our population...
by loringa
Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:52 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
Replies: 53
Views: 35465

Re: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'

Interesting... https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/woke-head-who-indoctrinated-pupils-at-32k-a-year-school-quits/ar-AAR3h9B?ocid=msedgntp Interesting indeed. I probably subscribe to the basic premise of Critical Race Theory in that, unintentionally at least, the laws and culture of a country such...
by loringa
Thu Nov 25, 2021 11:24 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
Replies: 53
Views: 35465

Re: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'

Interesting... https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/woke-head-who-indoctrinated-pupils-at-32k-a-year-school-quits/ar-AAR3h9B?ocid=msedgntp Interesting indeed. I probably subscribe to the basic premise of Critical Race Theory in that, unintentionally at least, the laws and culture of a country such...
by loringa
Mon Nov 22, 2021 1:49 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
Replies: 53
Views: 35465

Re: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'

I would presume that a lot of the former pupils at CH knew a lot about the " real world ". We grew up post WW2 with PTSD rife amongst our parents, Some of us living in quite squalid accomodation, and very little money. I think that makes us experts regarding the real world. I am sure that...
by loringa
Mon Nov 22, 2021 8:57 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
Replies: 53
Views: 35465

Re: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'

So strange that rockfreak knows so much about the real world yet escaped the fairyland even though he is a product of a public school. Nothing says working class hero quite as much as a product of a Public School employed as a music journalist! All those evenings in smoky bars surrounded by middle ...
by loringa
Tue Nov 09, 2021 5:18 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: From the sublime to the ridiculous
Replies: 293
Views: 139025

Remembrance

Yup - off topic but that's hardly unusual with this forum. Anyway, I shall be attempting to squeeze myself into a uniform made for me in 1980 this Sunday and paying my respects to the memories of those who made the supreme sacrifice. I am sure you all will be remembering and paying your respects whe...
by loringa
Mon Nov 08, 2021 11:19 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: From the sublime to the ridiculous
Replies: 293
Views: 139025

Re: Heroes?

I have a lot of respect for the active soldiers and Hereford College even more so. Supply clerks in the War Office - very different matter. I think that's the point - Service men and women do all sorts of jobs in peace an in times of conflict. One day they might be serving in the MOD, the next depl...
by loringa
Mon Nov 08, 2021 5:29 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: From the sublime to the ridiculous
Replies: 293
Views: 139025

Heroes?

I am always a little concerned when I hear the word 'heroes' used. I do know some genuine heroes but most people who put on a uniform and serve their country are just ordinary men and women who may, or may not, find themselves working under extraordinary conditions. I certainly don't know many (any?...
by loringa
Mon Nov 01, 2021 8:14 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway
Replies: 18
Views: 9669

Re: Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway

... At CH we were all given a fresh start, the opportunity to take on a different way of living and operating, become a different person - if we wished. A lot of pupils in state secondary schools would give their eye teeth for that opportunity. Thanks Chrissie. You've pretty much encapsulated my ex...
by loringa
Mon Nov 01, 2021 8:12 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Freaky on Witch Persecution (Well it is Halloween)
Replies: 2
Views: 1254

Re: Freaky on Witch Persecution (Well it is Halloween)

Other than conflating Medieval with the Reformation that was an interesting post so why on earth did you have to add the final reference to Christ's Hospital? We all know your views on the institution which, presumably or you wouldn't have been there, provided you with an education you would not hav...
by loringa
Tue Oct 12, 2021 8:22 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway
Replies: 18
Views: 9669

Re: Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway

I might well be jumping to mischievous conclusions ... Yup - I think you are. Almost every teacher I know in the independent sector has moved into it from the maintained sector. They often move back into it too, especially on promotion. I have come across a small number of teachers in state schools...
by loringa
Thu Oct 07, 2021 9:08 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway
Replies: 18
Views: 9669

Re: Re-educated by Lucy Kellaway

To all teachers, past, present and just setting out, and particularly those tackling the chalk face (or the whiteboard these days) in the state sector. I cannot recommend the above book highly enough. In her fifties Kellaway left a successful career in journalism on the FT (writing, often satirical...
by loringa
Sat Oct 02, 2021 12:08 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Brexit
Replies: 117
Views: 266428

Re: Brexit

Brexit is not the cause of the lorry driver shortage but provides a convenient excuse for a remaincentric incompetent Establishment and a media that loves to fan the flames of discontent in any way possible. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6260516.stm. The linked article is from 2007 long befor...
by loringa
Fri Oct 01, 2021 1:19 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Brexit
Replies: 117
Views: 266428

Re: Brexit

"Good moaning" springs to mind :D Me moaning? I was the one saying that i loved living in France. I am only moaning if you are a politician - see my recent list of truths about politicians! No one is saying anyone is moaning; it is an allusion to the British cultural icon of the 1980s tha...
by loringa
Thu Sep 30, 2021 11:06 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Brexit
Replies: 117
Views: 266428

Re: Brexit

Any Brexiters wishing to deal? I am not sure that there are too many Brexiteers around, at least not who would admit to it, on this forum or elsewhere. Let's face it, we are a long way from those sunlit uplands and, whilst Covid has clearly exacerbated a number of problems, we are hardly alone in t...