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Friday, 2 March 2012
Assumptions
Posted on 06:47 by Unknown
A poll of 3000 teachers run by the parenting club website bounty.com revealed that roughly half of teachers make assumptions about children based upon their first names. Their judgements are shown below and are pretty accurate. (Read my books for a description of the game Top Set- Bottom Set)
Naughty Boys Naughty Girls
1. Callum Chelsea
2. Connor Courtney
3. Jack Chardonnay
4. Daniel Aleisha
5. Brandon Casey
6. Charlie Crystal
7. Kyle Jessica
8. Liam Brooke
9. Jake Demi
10. Brooklyn Aisha
Now we move on to children assumed by teachers to be clever
Boys Girls
1. Alexander Elizabeth
2. Adam Charlotte
3. Christopher Emma
4. Benjamin Hannah
5. Edward Rebecca
6. Matthew Abigail
7. Daniel Grace
8. James Alice
9. Harry Anna
10. William Sophie
Pretty accurate, I'd say.
Please do not write in to say that your daughter Aisha is very well behaved, as I do not want to know. Buy a book on statistics instead.
Please do not write in to say that your daughter Aisha is very well behaved, as I do not want to know. Buy a book on statistics instead.
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Kristy Bamu
Posted on 14:07 by Unknown
Could the murder of Kristy Bamu have been prevented?
Yes, quite easily if our leaders had the slightest interest in regulating who comes into our Country.
Yes, quite easily if our leaders had the slightest interest in regulating who comes into our Country.
Fraudulent Applications and Catchment Areas
Posted on 00:16 by Unknown
Nottinghamshire headmaster Rob Mc Donough is advising the Government on how to stop parents making fraudulent applications to get their children into better schools that they do not actually live in the catchment area for.
It is an excellent example of Darwinian selection. The more a parent cares about their offspring, the greater the lengths they will go to in order to make sure that they get into a decent school. The child of such parents is likely to be similarly keen and entrepreneurial. A school with a bit more vision would adopt a policy of only taking pupils whose parents they suspected of lying and cheating on their application.
Finally, RIP David Rathband.
It is an excellent example of Darwinian selection. The more a parent cares about their offspring, the greater the lengths they will go to in order to make sure that they get into a decent school. The child of such parents is likely to be similarly keen and entrepreneurial. A school with a bit more vision would adopt a policy of only taking pupils whose parents they suspected of lying and cheating on their application.
Finally, RIP David Rathband.
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