TheTeapot Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 Isn't there currently a planning application to build a new primary school in Ramsey as part of a housing estate out the north end somewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lfc84 Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 (edited) The real savings are from local authority reform. Desc are correct on this occasion. The aspiration should be for small class sizes - not only in primary but secondary as well. Edited June 18 by lfc84 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doc.fixit Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 As usual, some in the govt. forget the phrase, 'quality of life'. Life is not all about making money. Glad there's a bit of common sense coming through the apparent mess. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Colombe Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 4 hours ago, HeteroErectus said: Did you read that on a poster in an 80s office? Well I didn't. But Daphne might have done. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 Perhaps when the teachers ask for their next pay increase they should give them the decision...take advantage of the savings or no payrise? I went to one of the schools on the closure list, as did my own kids, but emotion should be left out of decisions such as this. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banker Posted June 18 Author Share Posted June 18 25 minutes ago, Albert Tatlock said: Perhaps when the teachers ask for their next pay increase they should give them the decision...take advantage of the savings or no payrise? I went to one of the schools on the closure list, as did my own kids, but emotion should be left out of decisions such as this. Some of the schools have smaller classes than KWC and you pay £20k Pa there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 (edited) If some of the Primary schools are amalgamated, that could mean more parents' cars on the road, more pollution, less compliance with climate change goals??? .....and fewer Headmasters to throw water balloons at on sports days!!! Edited June 18 by Kopek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Flint Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 2 hours ago, lfc84 said: The real savings are from local authority reform. Desc are correct on this occasion. The aspiration should be for small class sizes - not only in primary but secondary as well. No doubt about statement A In respect of B, it's a luxury. In HE we are really asking some harsh questions as to whether some courses remain viable. But then we run on business lines. I currently teach a cohort of three at Burnley. Suffice it to say that location option no longer exists. Times are really hard at present and there has to be some hard choices made. This isn't the 1990's and just continuing to do the nice thing may be the islands undoing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeliX Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 3 minutes ago, Derek Flint said: Times are really hard at present Unless you're an Oil & Gas exec, or a slumlord, or any of the other denizens we refuse to tax. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercenary Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 4 hours ago, Ringy Rose said: I’d love to know how much we paid for this report, because the content isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. In typical Tynwald style it’ll probably be a million quid. FOI it if you want to know I'd guess £30k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Ram Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 6 minutes ago, HeliX said: Unless you're an Oil & Gas exec, or a slumlord, or any of the other denizens we refuse to tax. We don’t tax landlords? Please explain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeliX Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 6 minutes ago, Roger Ram said: We don’t tax landlords? Please explain Refuse to tax appropriately. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Ram Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 2 minutes ago, HeliX said: Refuse to tax appropriately. How? What do you think is wrong and what should be different? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeliX Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 2 minutes ago, Roger Ram said: How? What do you think is wrong and what should be different? I think people should be taxed so aggressively on owning outrageous numbers of homes that it becomes not possible. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Ram Posted June 18 Share Posted June 18 Just now, HeliX said: I think people should be taxed so aggressively on owning outrageous numbers of homes that it becomes not possible. Why? The island desperately needs more landlords At the moment they are selling up because of what a nightmare it is becoming to be a landlord and leaving no supply so prices are rising for those who need to rent. Do you not think the addition fees they have to pay to purchase a property are enough? Why are they all selling up and leaving a supply and demand nightmare of it is so lucrative? 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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