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Thread ID: 116794	2011-03-20 21:16:00	Glide Time, or some other time?	tuiruru (12277)	PC World Chat

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1187832	2011-03-22 01:02:00	In the 70's & 80's there was no fee for books or a school fund it was all totally free unless you went on a school trip. There was no charge for after school events as our parents took us and were responsible for us too. This was also in the UK, unfortunately Thatcher canned free school milk which was the only reason I was willing to turn up	gary67 (56)
1187833	2011-03-22 02:08:00	In the 70's & 80's there was no fee for books or a school fund it was all totally free unless you went on a school trip. There was no charge for after school events as our parents took us and were responsible for us too. This was also in the UK, unfortunately Thatcher canned free school milk which was the only reason I was willing to turn up Thought the milk came in third of a pint bottles not cans!! ;)	tuiruru (12277)
1187834	2011-03-22 03:01:00	It did and I loved it, would have taken something major to get me into school if free milk hadn't existed	gary67 (56)
1187835	2011-03-22 03:09:00	Maybe it is not as simple as that, after all I presume pupils are not charged for text books at school if they opt to study German, French, Spanish or Japanese etc (at least I wouldn't think so, but you never know in this Rogernomics age). Son has just started year 9, 2 languages are compulsory. Extra fees are involved even though its compulsory to take them.	plod (107)
1187836	2011-03-22 03:21:00	Son has just started year 9, 2 languages are compulsory. Extra fees are involved even though its compulsory to take them. So-called free education in NZ is a joke ! It is the pretence of free education that is so underhand.	Terry Porritt (14)
1187837	2011-03-22 03:24:00	Son has just started year 9, 2 languages are compulsory. Extra fees are involved even though its compulsory to take them. What two languages Plod and how often? That seem s a fair chunk of timetable time which has to come from somewhere else, so what other subject is missing out?	tuiruru (12277)
1187838	2011-03-22 03:44:00	It did and I loved it, would have taken something major to get me into school if free milk hadn't existed Here's a stupid tale Gary, which you'll appreciate 'cos you know the geography. When I was at Primary School in Chislehurst (near Woolwich), in the summer, once a year the whole school used to get on coaches and go down to the coast for the day, sort of Dymchurch-Camber area. The school milk came up by lorry from Maidstone each day. So, what would happen is, in the blazing heat of a summers day (they were all hot summer days in those days I seem to remember), they'd be unloaded in their crates, thrown into the back of the coaches and be taken to the coast, passing thru' Maidstone on the way. Once arrived, it'd sit in the hot boots until lunchtime when it was deemed time to drink the stuff. Trouble was, what with the heat and all the churning from travelling, the milk had well and truly “turned” by then and was undrinkable! Even as seven year olds we couldn't work out why we couldn't pop into the factory and pick up the milk on the way down – it wasn't as if there was much in the way of OSH requirements in those days. Then, of course, there was the other end of the spectrum – sitting the crates by the radiators in winter to thaw the milk out. But I digress...	tuiruru (12277)
1187839	2011-03-22 03:51:00	In the 70's & 80's there was no fee for books or a school fund it was all totally free Yep, SWMBO and I had a four year Uni education with full board and lodging if we wanted it - all for zilch! (We were actually at the same Uni but didn't get married until 28 years after we first met - but that's another story!) If your parents were considered "better off" they had to make a bit of a contribution, but even that was on a sliding scale depending on how "better off" they were! But now look at what's happened, with th student riots over there not so long ago (even so I still reckon the fees are pretty low compared with some places)	tuiruru (12277)
1187840	2011-03-22 04:49:00	What two languages Plod and how often? That seem s a fair chunk of timetable time which has to come from somewhere else, so what other subject is missing out? spanish and something else, spanish first 6 months and the something else second half. I believe this is only compulsory for year 9. One saving grace is hew got to choose which language to take. The rest I will have to ask him after soccer practice.	plod (107)
1187841	2011-03-22 05:06:00	spanish and something else, spanish first 6 months and the something else second half. I believe this is only compulsory for year 9. One saving grace is hew got to choose which language to take. The rest I will have to ask him after soccer practice. I know there was talk by the MinEd a while back about making two languages compulsory (not sure whether Maori had to be one of them) but I can't remember hearing anything about it actually happening. Like I said, it boils town to timetable logistics - it's a finite pot, so If you're going to chuck something "new" in there, like a second langauge, that time has to be shaved off another subject, sometimes meaning that the other subject has to go completely (not necessarily a bad thing in some cases!). I'd be interested to hear what you're son's situation is.	tuiruru (12277)
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