This would indeed be great if it is true, but if they are really claiming 100% success on one of the hardest problems in education I suspect it may say more about the data collection method than the school bullying rate.
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MrCynical
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The cynic in me is flat out disbelieving of the claims that bullying is non-existent. They may have reduced it and/or made it less conspicuous, but that's a huge claim that would be extremely difficult to prove even if true.
I'm not too convinced by the claims that "the kids like it" either. I haven't watched the documentary, but that isn't going to be of much use to assess the real opinions of the kids. I'm reminded of an occasion when a teacher at my school won a fairly major award, and there were a bunch of pieces in various papers that made it sound like he was some angel of education who'd been sent from heaven to save us. In reality there was widespread joking and disbelief among us about it at the mismatch between the media reports and what we knew about him. He was one of the worst teachers in the school by any measure, and we all knew it. He rarely marked anything, would spend much of the lessons rambling about politics and personal stuff of no relevance to the subject, and was a manipulative bully when he thought no one important was watching.
But your entire point in raising this teacher was to praise her politics (and therefore the politics of the school).
You can't now pivot to "okay let's just focus on the results", when there are plenty of schools getting their kids to score good results. The entire story is about how this person achieved those results. Without that hook, the story is ten-a-penny.
We are sending refugees from the UK to a war zone?
Rwanda’s military has accused forces of the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo of wounding several civilians in cross-border shelling and asked regional monitors to investigate.
Rwanda Defence Force spokesman Col Ronald Rwivanga said authorities are “engaging” their DRC counterparts over the shelling that Rwanda says struck areas in Musanze district on Monday morning.
Rwanda has described allegations of supporting rebels in the DRC as baseless.
Fighting reportedly continues between DRC forces and an armed group called M23.
Rwanda Defence Force spokesman Col Ronald Rwivanga said authorities are “engaging” their DRC counterparts over the shelling that Rwanda says struck areas in Musanze district on Monday morning.
Rwanda has described allegations of supporting rebels in the DRC as baseless.
Fighting reportedly continues between DRC forces and an armed group called M23.
EnglishEdward
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Just in:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/6156397
Interesting that the BBC refers to him as a West Ham defender without mentioning that he is a French national.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Zouma
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/6156397
Interesting that the BBC refers to him as a West Ham defender without mentioning that he is a French national.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Zouma
WTH with that page? Have you broken the beeb?
Spoiler What it looks like for me :
MrCynical
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That link now just goes to a "Sorry, could not find the page" screen for me. Looks like the last character got cut off the URL:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61563971
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61563971
EnglishEdward
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Mega Tsunami
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Well, there certainly have been football related glitches at the BBC today: 
BBC apologises after ‘Manchester United are rubbish’ appears on ticker
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ted-are-rubbish-appears-on-ticker-news-tennis
BBC apologises after ‘Manchester United are rubbish’ appears on ticker
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ted-are-rubbish-appears-on-ticker-news-tennis
It sounds like they were pretty good parties. The office parties I have been to have never been like that.
Insiders who attended events at Downing Street during lockdown have told the BBC how staff crowded together and sat on each other's laps and how party debris was left out overnight.
They describe arriving for work the morning after a get-together to find bottles lying around parts of the building, bins overflowing with rubbish and empties left on the table.
They also tell of events with dozens of staff crowded together, and parties going so late that, on occasion, some ended up staying in Downing Street all night.
And they say staff mocked others who tried to stop what was going on.
The accounts come a day before the senior civil servant Ms Gray is expected to deliver her report on lockdown parties in No 10.
They describe arriving for work the morning after a get-together to find bottles lying around parts of the building, bins overflowing with rubbish and empties left on the table.
They also tell of events with dozens of staff crowded together, and parties going so late that, on occasion, some ended up staying in Downing Street all night.
And they say staff mocked others who tried to stop what was going on.
The accounts come a day before the senior civil servant Ms Gray is expected to deliver her report on lockdown parties in No 10.
I not really get the attraction of the Royals generally, but I really do not get how you can have a whole page of the state broadcasting company asking the Nation to sing Sweet Caroline for the Queen without any mention of the Queen liking the song, or wanting people to sing it, or being aware of anyone singing to her. I know for sure she does not want to hear me sing.
I'll answer with John Lydon's words:
Don't be told what you want!
Don't be told what you need!
Don't be told what you need!
Hey, what'd you know? The nationalist government did lobby in favour of a foreign state making yet another English club a plaything for its oil gazillionaires to unleash upon the league.
What relevance does his being French have to do with the article? Were you just missing your dose of xenophobia for today?
All your papers are not belong to us: Alexander Lebedev quits Independent role after Canada sanctions
Sledge Hammer voice: ‘Trust us, we know what we're doing’.
Democratic accountability: null. Even when told by the House of Commons they directly refuse to obey on political grounds.
The 62-year-old Russian bought the Independent for £1 in 2010, having previously taken control of London’s Evening Standard for the same sum the previous year. He later transferred control of the publications to his son Evgeny – a friend of Boris Johnson who was recently given a seat in the House of Lords by the prime minister, despite concerns from the security services. The two news outlets have since racked up huge losses, while giving the Lebedevs a degree of influence in British society.
Corporate filings show Alexander Lebedev stepped down as a director of Independent Print Ltd on Sunday, the day after it was publicly reported that he was on the Canadian sanctions list. The company is one of the web of businesses involved in the ownership of the Independent and Evening Standard.
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The decision to put Alexander Lebedev on the sanctions list has renewed scrutiny of the prime minister’s decision to award a peerage to his 42-year-old son. The government has so far failed to comply with a House of Commons instruction to release information about the decision to make Evgeny Lebedev a peer, arguing this would undermine the confidentiality of those nominated to the upper house of parliament and could degenerate into “political point-scoring”.
The Cabinet Office minister, Michael Ellis, told parliament he did not believe it was in the public interest to release the correspondence relating to the decision, adding: “Lord Lebedev is a man of good standing.”
Corporate filings show Alexander Lebedev stepped down as a director of Independent Print Ltd on Sunday, the day after it was publicly reported that he was on the Canadian sanctions list. The company is one of the web of businesses involved in the ownership of the Independent and Evening Standard.
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The decision to put Alexander Lebedev on the sanctions list has renewed scrutiny of the prime minister’s decision to award a peerage to his 42-year-old son. The government has so far failed to comply with a House of Commons instruction to release information about the decision to make Evgeny Lebedev a peer, arguing this would undermine the confidentiality of those nominated to the upper house of parliament and could degenerate into “political point-scoring”.
The Cabinet Office minister, Michael Ellis, told parliament he did not believe it was in the public interest to release the correspondence relating to the decision, adding: “Lord Lebedev is a man of good standing.”
Sledge Hammer voice: ‘Trust us, we know what we're doing’.
Democratic accountability: null. Even when told by the House of Commons they directly refuse to obey on political grounds.
EnglishEdward
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Being French is a permanent part of the cat kicker's identity.
Playing professional football for West Ham is merely his current job.
The question remains as to why the BBC omitted to include his nationality.
I do miss unbiased news. And underplaying crime by foreigners is a dubious bias.
No, the fact you consider him being a "foreigner" newsworthy is bias.
EnglishEdward
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The wikipedia article states that he is a French national.
And the reason that he is in the news is because he kicked a cat.
It is the BBC deciding to omit the nationality of foreigners that
commit crimes in the UK when reporting on them that is biased.
If you can make the fact relevant, go for it. It's not like the French are going to extradite him because we're looking to hang, draw and quarter the guy. As much as I hate animal cruelty, your insistence that him being foreign is noteworthy seems to have no relevance to the story, and seems to just be relevant to you, for whatever reason.
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