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Ben Hughes
- I drink, I fall down
That's interesting. Is there confidence in him to do that?
In this country it seems as though the governments feel that if they throw enough money at education they will solve the problems. The current idea is rebuilding schools, which might help in some areas but in many it's a case of merging good schools (which is messy in itself, renaming them and then putting them in a new building. What they don't understand is that the pupils and families still have the same problems and cretaing larger, rebranded schools doesn't always help.
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