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Transfer chaos - sign up to the Belfast Telegraph Online Petition
The Belfast Telegraph is demanding concerted and focused Executive talks aimed at finding an agreed solution to the transfer chaos.
Thursday, 24 September 2009
- We support the Belfast Telegraph's demand for focused Executive talks to find an agreed solution to the current school transfer crisis
- We believe that a solution cannot be reached without agreement among our political parties
- We appeal to ministers, party chiefs and MLAs to show the leadership needed to tackle the biggest issue facing our children in a generation
Campaign manifesto
WE ARE DEMANDING:
- concerted and focussed Executive talks aimed at finding an agreed solution to the transfer chaos
- that parties accept they have responsibility to parents, teachers and children to set aside differences and undertake a proper negotiaton process;
- that Executive ministers understand that no single party is to blame for the current crisis and that their constituents are tired of the current blame culture;
- the Executive finds an agreed solution so the children of 2011 do not face the same trauma as those in 2010.
WE ARE NOT:
- seeking the retention of selection;
- supporting the transfer policy of any political party or interest group;
- prescribing a Belfast Telegraph vision of school transfer - we believe this is job of our political leaders
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"who criticise her negatively" (sic)
So tell me Joe, are you by any chance the product of one of the superb 'all ability' schools that we hear so much about?
I am 100% behind integrated schooling, and I agree with the concept of non academic selection, but if non academic selection means that my children will be unable to construct a logically and grammatically correct sentence then maybe I should think again???
People (that halfwit Ruane mostly) need to appreciate the difference between ideal and real. Look at it this way
Ideally I will win the lottery this week, but in reality, I don't do the lottery so I won't win.
Ideally we will have a world class education system based on non academic transfer, but in reality, we don't have a transfer system or a decent all ability system, so the more clever children won't win...... They won't even get a fighting chance. If Ruane's 'vision' comes to light they will never be stronger than the weakest link.
Posted by P7 Parent | 25.09.09, 00:54 GMT
Here's a hint Belfast Telegraph. If you are not for academic selection you are against it. If you oppose academic selection you are anti-grammar school.
Now what is the point of your silly survey if not to produce some permission slip for politicians to abdicate their electoral commitments and cobble together some appeasement compromise for the Education Minister and her henchmen?
Posted by Parental Alliance for Choice in Education | 24.09.09, 23:02 GMT
"We are not prescribing a Belfast Telegraph vision of school transfer - we believe this is job of our political leaders" .... In other words - Belfast Telegraph is dismissing Ruane's plans without offering any solutions. Well...well done. Great work. Very brave and insightful. Just like all the other people who criticise her negatively. The anti-Ruane campaign has rumbled on for some time in this newspaper. I for one fully support educational reform and support Ms Ruane's plans. I would also like to see the complete abolition of religious schools. All schools should be fully integrated. For too long our people have been divided along class, religious and gender terms. Time to end it.
Posted by Joe | 24.09.09, 08:18 GMT