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kowenicki said:

CrazyHorse said:

kowenicki said:
Education...

Cameron won that one. The teacher that asked tghe question was nodding like crazy when he was speaking.

Brown said bugger all and Clegg was confused and all over the place with some weird numbers

Not so sure on that. What Cameron said about giving head teachers more power and cutting red-tape was all fine but I'm not so sure about this independent school set up (nor their policy on parents taking over a school if they feel it is failing). Clegg is right that the link between poor performance (and behaviour) in school is linked to poverty and is the only one trying to address that.

I and many of my class mates came from real poverty... and I mean real poverty not the modern definition of poverty.

I achieved.

Its about discipline and parental responsibility much more than it is about poverty.

I agree that parently responsibility ultimately plays the biggest role in a childs chances in life but poverty is a key factor in how many family dynamics run and is something a government can help to change. There are of course many exceptions on either side.