Re: Petrol Cost


"Mark Foster" <m.e.fosterREMOVEMEFIRST@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:m.e.fosterREMOVEMEFIRST-D2565B.22145316082005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <430244d6$0$17495$ed2e19e4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> "Clive George" <clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> "JNugent" <not.telling@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:4MydnRkOKN_f2Z_eRVnysw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > "Clive George" <clive@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
>> >
>> >> "JNugent" <not.telling@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >>> We had secondary modern schools, technical high schools and grammar
>> >>> schools. Today, except in a few areas (whose residents well
>> >>> understand
>> >>> the
>> >>> advantages their children enjoy and who resist any wrecking
>> >>> attempts),
>> >>> the
>> >>> latter two have been destroyed and only the sec mod (re-named the
>> >>> "comprehensive", subject to certain superficial changes and
>> >>> containing
>> >>> some elements of the other two sorts of school) is available.
>> >
>> >> I've had experience of both comprehensive and grammer schools (due to
>> >> moving
>> >> area when I was a kid). The comp was a far better school than the
>> >> grammer.
>> >
>> > Oh, the irony.
>>
>> Good on you - avoid the point because of a couple of spellos. Did you
>> have
>> anything else to say?
>
> It strikes me that point was not avoided at all. :-)

Fortunately the point is the opposite of what Mr Nugent desired, since I was
at the grammar school after the comp, and spent longer there. So selective
education loses...

clive


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