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> > Subject: RE: [LAU] Study Finds New Pop Music Does All Sound the
> Same.
> > From:
ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net
> > To:
dj_kaza@hotmail.com
> > CC: gnome@hawaii.rr.com;
linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org
> > Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:46:10 +0200
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> > > Is it not correct that Waldorf Schools in Germany have full state
> > > funding/backing?
> >
> > Sorry, no, they've got nothing in common with state schools. And
> they
> > also are far away from being perfect, but at least they are the
> lesser
> > of the two evils.
> >
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> This is the same in the UK (well always has been historically. As I
> mentioned my old school now has Academy Status (if I remember the name
> right) which is a fairly new government initiative I admit I don't
> know enough about. Yet to see if it improves the school or affects it
> to much in the wrong way.) Maybe it's more they're recognised over
> there, as here many don't offer much in the way of qualifications
> (GCSEs) and thus applying to a college which doesn't know about the
> system can be hard. Not so detrimental as we're talking A levels,
> rather than university, but it does sometimes seem weird saying you
> only did 3 GSCEs where I believe most people do more than 10 or
> something... I don't fel it ever affected me negatively with getting
> on with life though, either professionally or personally. In fact
> there definitely are a lot of positives!
>
> Although the quoted price of schooling at one here is at the level of
> most private schools (a lot of money) they also offer many incentives,
> giving reductions for people donating their time as volunteers and I
> believe also some level of means testing if you're accepted. There was
> definitely quite a broad mixture of very poor background and quite
> posh families in my school. I guess that in itself goes towards the
> ethos of social schooling and learning to accept each person as their
> own individual.
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> I did read a snippet earlier in the Wikipedia article you linked to
> mentioning how rich parents will make sure to move to a richer school
> catchment area before their kids come of age so there must be some
> truth in what you say about the disproportionate balance of the system
> over there. The same is quite true here and probably most places but I
> obviously can't personally share comparisons.
>
> Dale.
>