The Church of England..............

The Church of England should hang it's collective head in shame.  They opened the door to Women Bishops the minute they decided to allow women to be ordained as priests.  Anyone with a modicum of foresight could see this one coming.  Women would excel as much as men do and that would mean that some of the women would put themselves in line to become member of the episcopate.  Funnily enough, this was not the Bishops fault, it was not the clergy's fault, it was the Laity's fault as they did not vote in sufficient numbers to pass this into Law.  I saw one woman on the T.V. (her name escapes me for the minute!) who argued for no change by saying, and I am paraphrasing here, apologies if I get it wrong. "traditionally the Church was led by men".  Well lets look at that statement.  The Church was founded in  A.D. 33 (very approximately).  society at that time was not the same as society is now.  So the 'tradition' grew out of a particular form of society where men took the lead, and women were definitely second-class citizens.  This is an irrelevance now.  We now live in a meritocracy that is supposed to be blind to gender, and in civil society that is the Law.  It leads to the saying that 'sometimes the best man for the job is a woman.'
What of the male leaders in the Church of England?  They voted to change the law and to start a new 'tradition.' 
Is it just me, or is there something deeply illogical, about the leaders of an organisation wanting a change, and the followers want to maintain the 'status quo'?  Answers please on a post card addressed to 'The Archbishop of Canterbury'

Readin' Ritin' & 'Rithmatic

Everyone seems to be getting hot under the collar about education, Pob wants to turn education back to the 50's, the CBI are having a go, so I thought that I would give my two pennyworth!
Education is a political football that is being kicked around for ages.  Qualifications that kids work hard to attain are one minute suitable, the next abolished as they were not fit for purpose.  The most recent example of this is Pob's ideas about I.T. encouraged by some successful computer programmers who say that all the students that start an I.T. course at University are unable to code, because they have not been taught it at school.  Pob's idea was to scrap the current qualifications and start again last September.  Has this happened?  No.  Why?  As there wasn't enough time to design and bring in the necessary information for all teachers to be up and running in the few months that this was being talked about.  On the back of this the "Raspberry Pi" was developed and put on sale to get children programming, but the demand outstripped supply massively, and I do not know the latest situation.

We are meant to be returning to O and A Levels where everything depends on a final exam, none of this modular crap!
Teachers only teach to the test is another thing that is being tossed around.  Well what are teachers supposed to do?  If they do not teach to the test, then large number of students fail, and they get the sack!
The CBI want 16 year old's that can fit into the spaces that industry has for them.  What spaces?  We are in the middle of one of the worst recessions for nearly 100 years, carefully managed by Gideon and the Bullingham Boys, i.e. the Tory Party, and youth unemployment is at an all time high!
There is one development that has arrived in Hull that might be of interest, Hull Studio School has opened its doors.  This is a school where they learn about the workplace, and their G.C.S.E.'s are embedded in their program.  It is part of Hull College.  My prediction is that the kids that go here will be much more employable than kids that go to Wyke or Wilberforce.  This is because of the links that Hull College has with industry in this city, and because of the regime that Studio Schools run.  Do a 'Google search' if you want to know more.

Evenin' All!

Having been brought up on a diet of 'Dixon of Dock Green', we rarely saw the Senior Police Officers, the stories concentrating on the exploits of P.C. Dixon. 
However, now, we are in the midst of some of the biggest reorganisations of the Police Force.  We have had the introduction of C.P.S.O.'s, un-warrarranted officers 'supporting' the warranted officers, i.e. doing a lot of  the 'basic' policing. 
Now we are going to have the elections of Police and Crime Commissioners.  In Humberside the election has made the National News only because one of the candidates got so few people turning up to his election hustings.  The P.C.C.'s are an introduction by a Conservative Government, which is strange as this represents an extra layer in the structure of the Police, in a political ideology that is anti- layers of Government, but it does mean that they can get rid of the Police Authorities, which was maybe their agenda all along.
The P.C.C.'s are going to have a hard job, as there are bound to be further cuts to Public Services, and that will be hard to manage without the cuts affecting 'Front-line Policing'.
The bookies favourite, 'ere in 'Ull, is 'Prezza', and there are your usual collection of assorted others, including Simone Buterworth (the Liberal Candidate) who plans to give up a third of her salary, if elected, to supporting victims of crime (what a good idea!).  What does 'Prezza' want with £75k anyway?  He probably already has various pensions from the Unions, Houses of Commons and the House of Lords.  How many Jags does he plan to run? 
And another thing!  In this time of double dip recession, courtesy of Gideon and his gremlins in the Treasury, how much do all these elections cost?
Conspiracy Theory alert - if the P.C.C.'s prove themselves to be an effective bunch, do you think that they will get rid of the Chief Constables, and we elect our 'Chief of Police' just like they do in the good ol' U.S. of A.?