tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133809191630290599.post5378576544878972882..comments2023-08-19T16:44:23.150+01:00Comments on National Left: Idiot Posh School Head thinks she's an expert on the rest of Welsh education.glynbeddauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09933352430631144936noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133809191630290599.post-74778933632651785722014-02-18T07:46:42.817+00:002014-02-18T07:46:42.817+00:00Its a pity you do not sign your name as it would a...Its a pity you do not sign your name as it would add weight to your argument . But although you may be right in "some pupils attending Welsh medium schools do not come from Welsh-speaking homes, and their parents have sent them there not because they wish to encourage their use of Welsh, but to avoid sending them to the local English-medium Comprehensive school"<br /><br />The idea that you can blame welsh medium Education when they fail does not . How different are parents who transfer children from a English Medium to school to a private one because their children do not prosper there and the parents blame the school?glynbeddauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933352430631144936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133809191630290599.post-2987423168518997052014-02-18T00:13:07.341+00:002014-02-18T00:13:07.341+00:00Your response to Taylor misses the complexity of t...Your response to Taylor misses the complexity of the problem. I'll say this as a native Welsh speaker who attended a Welsh-medium school, and who currently works in a private school in Wales (not Christ College Brecon). Other people have told me of the problem Taylor discusses. I saw it for myself in school growing up - some pupils attending Welsh medium schools do not come from Welsh-speaking homes, and their parents have sent them there not because they wish to encourage their use of Welsh, but to avoid sending them to the local English-medium Comprehensive school. Not being able to speak Welsh, their parents cannot actually help them very much if they have educational difficulties. This is an open secret about welsh-medium schools. It is a serious problem. I did indeed see some fellow pupils change school, often after GCSE, probably for this reason. Their parents had made a mistake in sending them to welsh-medium schools. However, of course, Taylor as a private school headmistress cannot afford to criticise parent power and parental freedom of choice in public, because her own livelihood depends upon it! <br /><br />All this fuss really boils down to the problem of comprehensive schools, a major problem with our education system. It is quite useless to take pot-shots at private schools because they are not the real cause of these problems. <br /><br />What is really needed is more discrimination in the state education system. There could be room for a Welsh test for pupils whose parents want them to attend Welsh schools, because at the moment, too many pupils in Welsh-medium schools don't actually use the Welsh language. The problem is that Welsh-medium schools are comprehensive schools, so the people who support them also cannot afford to be honest about these problems. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133809191630290599.post-10893228084221471122014-02-17T15:19:55.627+00:002014-02-17T15:19:55.627+00:00From where does the delightful Ms Taylor hail, I w...From where does the delightful Ms Taylor hail, I wonder?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com