Alunh
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@thewayneinspain 6914 wrote:
I don’t think the british public nor its media understand.
Quite agree…..and I haven’t got a clue
There are 2 worrying trends if devolution is extended:
Wales is a left leaning nation and that means spend spend spend. If the Welsh Assembly get tax and spend powers they will use them
The Welsh Assembly has a worrying Welsh language agenda which tries subtly to ensure that Welsh is given every advantage in Wales despite its confinement to a minority of the population. Ever since Mrs Thatcher introduced a Welsh Language Act to buy off any Independence agenda, the elites that rule in Cardiff have tried to promote the language even if rides roughshod over the interests of the linguistically disenfranchised. Now whilst this might appear very noble in theory, it is very frustrating for all of those who find a near apartheid system in play where getting jobs is involved. Imagine if the public sector actually converts the informal agenda of offering jobs to Welsh speakers to an actual bar on monoglots
@GasMan 6738 wrote:
Why not just post what you are going on about, instead of acting like an elitist idiot.
Thank you for that pleasant comment. I thought that you might have worked out that there were good reasons to be vague on this question and, if you read what I normally write I would suspect that you would see that I am quite direct. On this matter I am being deliberately vague.
@Welsh Dresser 6729 wrote:
Have had a bit of root around on the wonder web and have found this relating to European funding for the regeneration of King Street.
https://www.wrexham.gov.uk/assets/pdfs/european/erdf/newsletter1.pdf
Does anyone know if this is still relevant?
I don’t, but I do know that the Council need to check their facts before issuing documents. This one, for example, states that the Bus Station was built in 2006….which it was not. Secondly, when the Bus station was originally floated, the Council consulted local businesses and actually reassured them that they should not worry about the development. They offered a comparable development in Birkenhead for comfort, explaining that after the disruptive work was completed, the average turnover increase was some 40% in local businesses. The no gain without pain approach was also sweetened with the promise of a major shopping development.
In retrospect, of course, we now know that this was complete boondocks, but it certainly sold those businesses that brassed out 2 years of chaos in pursuit of gain after pain down the river. This much I know.
Categorically…..the Council do not own the Centenary buildings. These are in the private sector and have an interesting recent history. Many of the businesses that have occupied these buildings have had a……..turbulent track record therein.
Investigate folks, investigate
I understand why the Council and the Welsh Assembly get involved in refurbishing an area, I really do. There is tourism to consider and the general need to improve an area that has run down. Ultimately, the general public want it to happen.
What many readers of this forum need to realise is that most parts of town do not require tax payer inputs because the privately owned businesses that operate within an area and certainly the landlords will ensure that the area is up to scratch. The landlords know that traders won’t take their premises and the traders know that they will leak customers.
Which leads me to the Centenary buildings which is the biggest eyesore in the area. I trust that our beloved Forum members are armed with the facts about the Centenary buildings before they comment too much on King Street because they are interesting to say the least. All I would add at this stage is that it will be one of the great travesties to affect this town if money is passed over from the public purse and finds its way into the mits of the owners of this set of buildings refurbishment or no refurbishment. Investigate people, investigate. Question why the owners appear to have given up on their own investment responsibilities, why the place has gone to rack and ruin and who will stand to benefit by what goes on in this entire area. Investigate!!
@thewayneinspain 6677 wrote:
AlunH, in reply to karl marx remark there is no need to get a sixth form lecture. ;)
Nobody should be evaluated at 11 on tests that are only aimed at middle class south east english kids, every child should be assessed on an ongoing basis and development should be progressed from that.
Clearly that won’t happen in a ‘super’ school because there are too many pupils for teachers to assess and nor is their time to give the pupils the feedback they deserve.
Hi Wayne. Don’t confuse my arguing style with a VIth form lecture, though as you already know, I have given these to people. I just get hacked off with the idea that Butler was some sort of exercise in elitism designed by some post aristocratic tory types from the shires intent on perpetuating some archaic class system.
You say that nobody should be evaluated at 11 on tests that are only “aimed at middle class south east English kids”. What does this actually mean? I did the 11 plus in St George Primary school as the son of a cattle-food salesman and went to St Asaph Grammar school. I hardly think I fit the stereotype. Secondly, you presume that supporters of Butler support the 11 plus. I actually don’t and believe in far more subtle methods of evaluating children’s needs and dispositions. The 11+ was very crude and arbitrary. Thirdly, you seem to imply that measuring a child’s progress has some worrying connotation. How do you think that either pupil or institution progress might be measured?
If truth be told, Butler had much to offer. It’s a cop out to pretend that offering what appears equal actually will lead to equality. Throwing the same education at children with multi-variable abilities is a fruitless exercise for the whole class. Clywedog was (hopely not is) a basket case example of Comprehensive principles producing inverse effects for a generation of Wrexham kids, pretending that exposing pupils equally to a common learning experience would produce equality and high educational standards. Guff
