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Thread ID: 125111	2012-06-07 04:10:00	Government backs down on class sizes ...	SP8's (9836)	PC World Chat

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1280252	2012-06-07 06:00:00	I partially agree, it was released to try and take the focus away from the asset sales. But it was more about closing technology blocks down than actual class sizes, still it has done what they intended all along which was to turn public opinion away from the asset sales issue while they push it through Re the Asset Sales... See Here (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz)	tuiruru (12277)
1280253	2012-06-07 06:30:00	Wonder why !!!! Have a primary school photo here: Std 1 with 41 pupils in it. Teacher was the Head Master and of course it was the year 1945. Earlier classes were 28, 25 and 32 respectively, which are more realistic, mind you it was during the WW11 period with fewer births taking place. Lurking. Adding to Lurkings 41 in a class, here is more proof of what class sizes were like in UK in my day, nothing rose tinted about 51 in a class :) www.box.com A scruffy lot of little buggers, most of us wore hob nail boots, the more studs and tips the better so we could clatter along generating sparks :) Those from poorer homes wore plimsolls. Teacher on the left, a Mr. Baker had just been demobbed from the RAF. Later on we had an ex guardsman with a fierce reputation, yet a brilliant teacher.	Terry Porritt (14)
1280254	2012-06-07 09:16:00	Adding to Lurkings 41 in a class, here is more proof of what class sizes were like in UK in my day, nothing rose tinted about 51 in a class :) www.box.com A scruffy lot of little buggers, most of us wore hob nail boots, the more studs and tips the better so we could clatter along generating sparks :) Those from poorer homes wore plimsolls. Teacher on the left, a Mr. Baker had just been demobbed from the RAF. Later on we had an ex guardsman with a fierce reputation, yet a brilliant teacher. Let me guess your the tall one int middle back row wearing a jacket?	gary67 (56)
1280255	2012-06-07 09:28:00	Let me guess your the tall one int middle back row wearing a jacket? :) That was Larry Stevens, I'm third from right on the back row. Larry was the tallest in the class. The headmaster on the right was "Fobby" Howell, a bit keen with the cane for late comers in a morning. Several of those boys had lost fathers in the war, and their mothers had a real struggle. At least 5 went on to become professionals, including a lawyer, another a university chemistry lecturer, another head chemist of a local firm. Not too bad for a black country school.	Terry Porritt (14)
1280256	2012-06-07 09:31:00	You look like a real young hellion :devil that class size was my whole school in kent	gary67 (56)
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