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Old 31-01-2016, 09:43 PM #31
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I dunno kirk, things right now are pretty bleak once you start to chip away the veneer. Hospitals are failing badly, education is possibly even worse. My daughter's primary school is one of only four in the entire county that didn't fail the last round of inspections miserably. Four primary schools, in the entire county. And really the only reason for that, is that it's a small school (140 or so pupils) in a high-average-income village, and there's a large amount of parent involvement and extra fundraising as a large number of the parents can afford it. Also a relatively large number of successful self employed business owners who can donate all sorts of things.

If we hadn't found this school nearby, and specifically moved to be in the catchment area for it, we would have been home educating. That's how bad things are in education now.

It feels like all sorts of essential foundations (health care, education, law enforcement) are currently crumbling badly... What does that look like in 20, 30 years?
Ah - I agree things ARE bad T.S. and WILL deteriorate further if nothing is done, but I was referring (rather tongue-in-cheek - and you know all about that concept ) to some of the terminology.
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