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What have the EU and gays got to do with it?

If I was you Egg at would just play safe and call your black friends mate or pal.

"'little evidence' coronavirus is passed on in offices" We all know that's because everyone is working from home, why do they come out with sh!t like this? Hancock is like the Tory gimp who get wheeled out whenever they have something embarrassingly shit to say or when Boris is on one of his many holidays. The bloke is a living, breathing example of why this country needs to sort out social mobility.

Dunno, that’s a grey area.

Not really, why the word is being said relates directly to who is saying it to who.

To be fair, most of what happens in Pulp Fiction is not acceptable behaviour.

Not really. A black person taking ownership of it and using it sort of makes sense, wouldn’t make sense for a white person to do the same.

When rappers and gangsters use it the context is pretty obvious TBF.

I admit I used to think teachers had it easy with all the holidays and that, but having had to home school my 6 year old for a couple of months this year I can appreciate what a tough job it is. I think I did Ok in the end (thanks to copious amounts of bribery) but couldn’t imagine having to control a whole class room.

And they chase people about with police speaker drones...

I guess that's what happens when you lock down properly and get test and tracing sorted out.

Great news!

Well done, that's why they are re-opening in September. In March when schools closed next to nothing was known about transmission by kids. As schools tend to cause the spread of other diseases the government had no option but to be cautious shut them when they did, and teachers unions have to do what they think is best for teachers (I think not being killed by a virus qualifies).

"although early indications suggest that there is less transmission from children than adults."

I'm still not sure how you think schools could have been kept open when back, even in mid May when exams were due too start the science surrounding transmission in children was not clear? Also anyone sitting GCSE's and A levels are at an age where it appears transmission is the same as adults, how does it make sense to have these people going to school at a time when we were all told to not even venture outside the front door?

I think the decision wether to hold exams or not probably had to be made long before the science became clearer about how much kids can spread the virus. We knew quite early on that they were not as seriously infected but it's the transmission to family member and staff that is important.

So you excuse the governments failures because "Nobody including scientists had a really clear idea of what its impact would be" yet you think schools should have been kept open during lockdown for the sake of some exam results when the R rate was through the roof, and teachers (some of them high-risk or with high-risk family) should have just risked their lives with the blessing of the Unions.

I assumed when they cancelled the exams they would have some sort of fair way of estimating the grades. Obviously as all estimates are just calculated guesswork they would have to mean higher grades than usual. It wouldn’t be fair on anyone to assume that they would do worse than expected like what has happened. An earlier lockdown would probably have been more effective in stopping the spread and so shorter, it would have saved the tax payer money.

Fuck me this is painful. Surely an old gammon like yourself understands that wether paid for by the appellant or the tax payer, there is still a cost?

Having us as the second biggest derby in England is just complete nonsense. It would be interesting to know how they worked that out.

My point was that it casts money, takes time and is pointless. As they have ruled out any appeal meaning grades go down I expect they will get swamped so you can expect ‘what the government wants’ to be nowhere near what is achieved.

You are just making stuff up, I think we should have locked down earlier and harder, that probably would have meant we came out much quicker meaning less of a hit to the economy. As for exams, as soon as they decided not to sit and grades would be estimated there was obviously going to be grade inflation. I would have expected teachers to estimate and there be some sort of dialogue between the results people and the schools to end up with some reasonable grades based on the individuals performances.

The government is picking up the tab for the appeals that doesn’t mean they are free, it means the tax payer pays instead if the school. The main issue at the moment with grades is getting a place at Uni, no student should be denied a place just because of some algorithm. These kids have had their education cut short and are being chucked out into the work market during the deepest recession ever. Surely if they can’t sit exams and prove themselves they should be given the benefit of doubt with some positive grades?

Everyone knows that this year is a freak year and whatever grades they have been awarded may be wrong so I don’t see the issue. It’s not rocket science as an employer to look at their grades and allow for a bit of exaggeration. Anyway as a student trying to get into uni you are only really competing against people in the same year and there tends to be grade inflation every year anyway. My point about the straight A’s is just to illustrate how flawed and unfair the system is, there will be people in different situations who haven’t done mocks or who didn’t take them seriously. Also student like that now have to go through a pointless, lengthy and expensive appeals process at a time when they should just be sorting their place at uni.