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[Andy B]

Mmmmm? :-/ 22 & a half miles each way to work. If I walked at 5 mph that's about 4 & a half hours, as I start at 6:50 am I'd have to leave the house 3:20am, so maybe up for 3:00 to have a wash & brew first. 12 hours later leave work at 6:50 pm, home for 11:30 pm ........... :-? I'm not sure I'd last walking to work       

[Dishevelled Den]

Daughter's Year 4 literacy homework:

"Lots of you walk to school because you know how important it is for the environment. Are your parents so eco friendly? Write a letter to persuade them that they should walk to work every day"

I work from home.

SWMBO works 6 miles away and frequently doesn't finish her shift until midnight.

Teacher drives her Mini Cooper to school each day.

One blank piece of homework about to be handed in, methinks.

"Lots of you walk to school because you know how important it is for the environment. Are your parents so eco friendly?

Does this not say it all?  In my view, there’s a much more sinister agenda lurking behind this seemingly innocuous concern for the environment.

[Mysteryman]

I gave up trying to influence the teachers at my sons school long ago. They are, after all, only teaching from a script. I started to 'educate' my son instead. Once I had convinced him that the teachers were mistaken, he took my message straight back to them and, having aspergers, was immovable. So much more satisfying to have your own child throwing it straight back at them and influencing the other children.

[Dishevelled Den]

Indoctrination of the young and innocent into a political mindset is sick imo, it makes me very angry indeed. If it were my child I would be down the school for a chat with the head.
Hopefully the cuts announced in the commons today will help cut of the supply of funds for this type of nonsense.
On a slightly different note - I was reading today that in the last days of the previous govt. Ed ballls signed off £2.5 biilion in new spending on education projects, despite being told by the treasury that there was no money in the coffers at all to pay for it. He was simply writing cheques that he knew would bounce.
I think there should be some mechanism for criminal proceedings in such circumstances.

Indoctrination of the young and innocent into a political mindset is sick

You're not a wise man from the East for nothing my son

He was simply writing cheques that he knew would bounce.

I would say there was a heavy political element in this.  Had Labour been returned to power an excuse would have been found to stay the projects due to the slower than expected economic recovery.

Had the Conservatives been returned the projected cancellation of the measures would have been used to show the Tories at their savage, cost-cutting worst.

[albitz]

The projects got cancelled today Z and the man who wrote the bouncy cheques was on TV all afternoon telling everyone how the savage Tory cuts are a terrible hammer blow for millions of ordinary working people. Cynical doesnt even begin to cover it, he should be in a cell as far as Im concerned.

[Sixstring]

One look at the teachers car park at school should shut them up. In my step-sons school, 3x BMWs, 2x 4x4s , 6 larger engined estate cars (renaults, mondeos and insignia est's) 1x smart car, and 5 mercedes........
Most teachers are on 25-35k, so this really seta a good example. BTW......we live in Lydney, a small-ish place, and 90% of teachers are local, and 2 live in the same street, yet BOTH take their own cars to work?

Yep.....blank page methinks.