The "goats" will now be brought into the open for public stoning
(although it may take a few years to set the fears, resentments, and
hatreds into the stone of reprisal). The goats are anyone foreign or
different. These frictions will be caressed into an open, festering
wound in the nations psyche for the coming world religious war.
D.
On 24/09/2012 3:38 AM, michael gurstein wrote:
I lived/studied in England in the 60's/70/s and have visited off and
on ever since.
This last, most recent trip, other things being equal may be my last.
England was never an easy place to visit or to live in on a modest
budget... no central heating, not much in the way of public amenities;
but the saving grace was always the kindness and civility of the
people. Well, that seems to be gone now and what is left seems to be a
simmering hostility and formless, targetless envy... From the car
rental person who seemed to deliberately misunderstand my rather
simple requests (and sent me off in completely the wrong direction
with a dismissive shrug and barely concealed contempt (because I
didn't upgrade my basic vehicle for slightly larger one at more than
double the cost)), to the actively hostile customer antagonistic
service of RyanAir's public presentation (it is a sight to behold how
they treat their customers--think that Brit A@@h@le on American Idol
translated into a corporate marketing strategy), to the folks on the
street who when asked a simple direction brusquely turn away (the
foreigners are the ones who answer but of course, they themselves have
no idea), to the landlord who can't be bothered to provide loo paper
in a mid-priced AirBnB rental unit...
Margaret Thatcher won! She reduced England to a bunch of graspers,
strivers, and overall public thugs. (and having just spent a week in
Nigeria I have a rather acute sense of how degraded the public sphere
can get...
M
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*Subject:* [TriumphOfContent] Let The Children Play: MSPs back music
tuition campaign
Let The Children Play: MSPs back music tuition campaign
The motion was laid down by East Lothian MSP Iain Gray. Picture: Dan
Phillips
The motion was laid down by East Lothian MSP Iain Gray. Picture: Dan
Phillips
By EMMA COWING
Published on *Sunday 23 September 2012 00:00*
MORE than 20 MSPs have signed a parliamentary motion supporting
Scotland on Sunday's campaign to end tuition fees for music lessons in
schools.
The motion, laid down by East Lothian MSP Iain Gray, has attracted
cross-party support and "commends" the local authorities that have
resisted making charges for lessons despite the economic downturn and
the squeeze on budgets.
It was submitted after it emerged that 24 of Scotland's 32 councils
were charging?parents up to £340 a year for their children to take
music?tuition in state schools and that children taking music exams as
part of their courses were having to pay.
Gray said one of the major concerns of MSPs was that children from
low-income areas were being denied the opportunity to take music
lessons because their parents could not afford it.
"At the heart of this is that Labour introduced a youth music
initiative in primary schools which the SNP government has carried
on," he said.
"But when many children are getting to secondary school, their parents
are just deciding they cannot afford it."
The motion asks the Scottish Parliament to recognise the key role that
music can play in children's academic and social development. It
welcomes Scotland on Sunday's Let The Children Play campaign and says
that every child in Scotland should have the opportunity to learn a
musical instrument. It adds that MSPs share the concern of the
Educational Institute for Scotland that music tuition charges may deny
children from poorer backgrounds the chance to develop their musical
talents, and commends the eight local authorities in Scotland that
make no charge for instrumental music tuition in schools.
The motion has been signed by MSPs James Kelly, Neil Findlay, Malcolm
Chisholm, Helen Eadie, Hanzala Malik, Patricia Ferguson, Kenneth
Gibson, Elaine Smith, Michael McMahon, Drew Smith, Richard Simpson,
Mike MacKenzie, John Park, Anne McTaggart, Liam McArthur, Christine
Grahame, Jackie Baillie, Jamie Hepburn, Sarah Boyack, Rhoda Grant,
Elaine Murray, and Alison Johnstone.
Gray said: "The amount of money required for free?lessons is not a
huge sum, and if we can support elite athletes then we should be able
to put some funding into areas like this."
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/music/news-and-features/let-the-children-play-msps-back-music-tuition-campaign-1-2542606
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