Dally wrote:But are most British kids worthy of a proper education? Had an interesting conversation with a young Polish lady at the weekend. As she put it, she came from the poor part of her town in Poland and all the kids were respectful of the teachers, paid attention, strived to get on and get good marks. Compare that with even good British maintained schools - kids disrepect towards the teachers, don't listen and disrupt lessons, either think its not cool to get good marks or, in recent years, get some form of pass or non-failure come what may.

Our cultural cess-pit was further highlighted when she explained that when she first arrived in the UK her and another Polish girl went to a night club. When they arrived they were too frightened to get up to dance because they thought that they had entered a club where prostitutes hang out - because of the way the girls dressed and behaved. It was only after she had been here a short while that she realised these were "normal" British girls.

Sad the way our country has degenerated.

El Barbudo wrote:If you'd been as selective about your time in the Coburg as I was in the Zetland (Huddersfield), you too would have the facility for my little nugget of smartarseness.

JerryChicken wrote::shock: I don't believe for one minute that you sat in a pub on a college day reading the logarithm tables.

El Barbudo wrote:You are correct in your belief.
Just that sometimes (usually when broke) I would elect to go to college and, hence, accidentally learn something.

JerryChicken wrote:I have to admit to agreeing with you (for once), I had a conversation with someone last week about Poles and other Eastern European immigrant workers in this country along the lines of "Come over here, taking our jobs etc" - I have the opposite opinion as I deal with lots of european migrants on the phone during my normal days work and without fail I have always found them to be very polite, intelligent, have very good English skills, and be very clear and precise in what they are saying and how they say it - you rarely find one that mumbles in a "couldn't care less attitude".

My answer to the ones who complain is always "How would you manage if you were transported to Poland and told to get on, find a job, a house and support yourself", I don't think any of us could, even if you used France as an example when most of us learned French at school - we couldn't support ourselves with GCSE French without appearing to be total ignoramus's.

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:You're agreeing with Dally that British kids aren't worthy of education because they are ignorant scum and act like whores?

JerryChicken wrote:we couldn't support ourselves with GCSE French without appearing to be total ignoramus's.

cod'ead wrote:How many on this board ever picked up a Log Table and used it in a practical way once they'd left school?

JerryChicken wrote:Your extrapolation skills are immense.

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:"But are most British kids worthy of a proper education?"