Comprehensives

* I used to teach in comprehensives, now I’m in the City mostly teaching professionals but still teach children ❋ Unknown (2008)

Eventually, this attempt to level the playing field was itself deemed intolerably elitist, and they were largely abandoned in favour of one-curriculum-fits-all comprehensives. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Melissa Benn I think a lot of what you're saying needs to be done is done in good comprehensives, in good community schools. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Anyone who wanted to hear about proposals to tackle the ceaseless rise in knife crime in the west of Scotland or failing comprehensives have been disappointed. ❋ Unknown (2011)

What is clear is that in spite of a huge increase in education spending under Labour and the outstanding achievements of some comprehensives and teachers, we do not have an education system fit for the 21st century. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Professor David Woods, the chief adviser for London schools, said the "chattering classes" were wrong about the capital's comprehensives. ❋ Unknown (2011)

To me, the night bus is a metaphor for so many useful public domains in Britain, from comprehensives and hospitals to swimming pools and parks, that are falling into terminal squalor because the middle classes have shrunk from them in horror, and decided to fund far more expensive private alternatives for their own exclusive use. ❋ Maxine (2009)

I would also LOVE to know how they classified people who were educated pre-comprehensives at free local grammar schools, where those schools are now academic independent schools like my old stomping ground? ❋ Cath@VWXYNot? (2009)

St Ninian's High School, on Glasgow's southern approaches, has become one of Scotland's consistently top-performing comprehensives. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Since the school was set up two years ago – on the site of two neighbouring but failing comprehensives – the meaning of this "front foot" has changed. ❋ Unknown (2012)

In addition, religious studies has no recognition as a "humanity", despite its salience in church comprehensives and its increasing popularity. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I've been a teacher in various comprehensives for more than 20 years and have come to appreciate just how crucial it is that the majority of our teachers are trained at university. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Katharine Birbalsingh has taught in London comprehensives for over 10 years and this diary of a typical year in one of those schools will confirm every parent's worst fears. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Gove believes that free schools and the transformation of successful comprehensives into academies will trigger competition that improves the chances of the poorest. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Last week's Mail on Sunday named and shamed comprehensives as key factors in our national decline, while former teacher Katharine Birbalsingh popped up on Newsnight to raise the alarm, once again, on school discipline, an easy theme that Cameron has quickly made his own. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Some 59% of those who had attended comprehensives said £9,000 fees would have put them off university, compared with 39% of those who were educated privately. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Careers advisers said the handbook would mean clever pupils at comprehensives could no longer be in a weaker position to their peers in private schools when applying to leading universities, such as Oxbridge. ❋ Unknown (2011)

After Polish teenagers have finished at gimnazjum schools – similar to British comprehensives – at the age of 15, they take one of four paths. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It helps explain why only 15% of children in comprehensives get five GCSEs at grade C or above in academic subjects and why more than 50 comprehensives are more than half-empty, having been deserted by parents. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And as a parent of primary-age children anxious to know there are London comprehensives to which I would enthusiastically send them, I liked the look of his school. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"Why is [google] saying that [comprehendable] is [not a word]?" *5 hours later* Did you mean "comprehensible?" "..." ❋ HuniSenpai (2016)

[beyond] [comprehension] of human [mind] ❋ Admirer85 (2019)

[Econ] [207] [final exam] is comprehensive. ❋ Lum1234 (2009)

[The president] is a [comprehensive] [douchebag]. ❋ TruthSayer2451 (2010)

Teacher: I'd expect that kind of debauchery at the comprehensive down the road, but not here at The College! * Teacher: Can we stop acting like a bunch of retards from the local comprehensive and [get on with] the work! * * [laughs all round], we all that know our teacher went to a comprehensive himself [Snob] (boy): I can't believe you kissed a girl from a comprehensive, you've probably got AIDS now! Snob (girl): Oh my God, some boys from the comprehensive flirted with me on the bus (shudders) I thought I was gonna get raped! ❋ Middle-class Snob (2006)

Even [swear], I never said I was a [family friendly] channel, I just didn't swear until now, [deal with it]. Comprehensive :) ❋ AustraliaPog (2021)

comprehensive is [a long] [word] ❋ (2021)

Person A: "Man, i have a lot of [pennies]!" Person B: "Are they [beyond] Vegeta's Comprehension?" Person A: "No, it was just 3273 of ['em]." ❋ AlphaCananogram (2009)

NU-METAL KID THATS 14: Hey guys I just bought slipknots new album "subliminal verses" Death fan: Dude thats been around for 2 years anyways ... go listen to some [real metal] not that [pussy shit] you kids think is a [fasion] statement NU-METAL KID: My mom wont let me listen to death because she says it provokes people into satans wrath Death Fan - well thats you're problem you pussy Death fan- well remember this when you move out listen to lack of comprehension NU-METAL KID- but my mom wants me to stay home the rest of my life ❋ Thecairvoyant (2007)

[Grammar police] are quite [lacking] in their [alchemical comprehension] ❋ Magicks (2012)