On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:37:15 GMT, "Graham"  wrote:

>
>"Christopher A. Lee"  wrote in message 
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>> On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:44:55 +0100, Ian Smith
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>John Brockbank wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am afraid that I have been called away to play a game with my
>>>> grandchildren who are staying with us, so I can not go further, but I 
>>>> might
>>>> read a bit about Vardy and see whether his establishments get public 
>>>> money
>>>> (our MP is a weaky, so will not help in that regard but I will try 
>>>> anyway).
>>
>> They do.
>>
>> It's  a City Technology College, partly funded by government and
>> partly by local industry, originally intended to train students to
>> work in the local industry.
>>
>> With the local funder responsible for the curriculum.
>>
>> I doubt Thatcher intended anything like this when she set them up. She
>> just wanted schools outside Department of Education control.
>>
>>>I tried our local MP - his view was that the academy schools
>>>programme was proving to be successful and he therefore supports it
>>>on that basis.
>>>
>>>A contact in the local party tells me that he would not vote against
>>>the government without very good reason.
>>
>> It's called the party whip.
>>
>> But teaching creationism isn't a very good reason?
>>
>> Although someone who votes against the whip gets relegated to the
>> sidelines. It takes a Tam Dalziel or a George Galloway to get away
>> with it.
>>
>> The Vardy schools are disgusting, as are their supporters in
>> government.
>>
>> What would happen if a student were to stand up in class and tell them
>> they were lying to the kids because it is religion not science?
>>
>From what I've read, he/she would be expelled immediately!
>Graham 

What if he refused to be?

"Christopher A. Lee"  wrote in message 
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> On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:37:15 GMT, "Graham"  wrote:
>
>>
>>"Christopher A. Lee"  wrote in message
>>news:8m50b4ho7bm3d4ccestapql44bnof1quao@4ax.com...
>>> On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:44:55 +0100, Ian Smith
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>John Brockbank wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am afraid that I have been called away to play a game with my
>>>>> grandchildren who are staying with us, so I can not go further, but I
>>>>> might
>>>>> read a bit about Vardy and see whether his establishments get public
>>>>> money
>>>>> (our MP is a weaky, so will not help in that regard but I will try
>>>>> anyway).
>>>
>>> They do.
>>>
>>> It's  a City Technology College, partly funded by government and
>>> partly by local industry, originally intended to train students to
>>> work in the local industry.
>>>
>>> With the local funder responsible for the curriculum.
>>>
>>> I doubt Thatcher intended anything like this when she set them up. She
>>> just wanted schools outside Department of Education control.
>>>
>>>>I tried our local MP - his view was that the academy schools
>>>>programme was proving to be successful and he therefore supports it
>>>>on that basis.
>>>>
>>>>A contact in the local party tells me that he would not vote against
>>>>the government without very good reason.
>>>
>>> It's called the party whip.
>>>
>>> But teaching creationism isn't a very good reason?
>>>
>>> Although someone who votes against the whip gets relegated to the
>>> sidelines. It takes a Tam Dalziel or a George Galloway to get away
>>> with it.
>>>
>>> The Vardy schools are disgusting, as are their supporters in
>>> government.
>>>
>>> What would happen if a student were to stand up in class and tell them
>>> they were lying to the kids because it is religion not science?
>>>
>>From what I've read, he/she would be expelled immediately!
>>Graham
>
> What if he refused to be?
>
I wonder if that has happened.  Perhaps the Humanist Soc. knows - I imagine 
they keep an eye on the Vardy schools.  ISTR the Sheffield group reporting 
on an attempt to open a Vardy in the Rotherham area.

Graham