By Pat Thomson
Thomson argues that present outcomes-based and standardised guidelines for deprived colleges aren't powerful. fairly colleges want the flexibleness to boost ideas that swimsuit their particular state of affairs.
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It was one of those ugly ‘boys’ bullying’ numbers, and since then, for myself and the counsellor, following that through has been about 60 percent of our time, doing all the parent talk and checking with each other—where is it all up to, who have we seen, who haven’t we seen, what do we do with this child, how do we get the message across—and that sort of stuff is going on all the time. We just don’t get to do the classroom work that we’d like to do. And that’s always a dilemma. PRINCIPAL SIX (pauses and then takes a turn, since it is clearly expected ): ‘Things are different now for us, too.
In the centre is a small mile-square grid of modest high-rise office buildings, spacious tree-lined terraces, elegant sandstone buildings of various cultural and government dispositions and gracious Victorian-era residences. Around the city centre is a substantial ring of green parklands. A torpid, muddy stream winds out to sea from the hills, through the centre of the city and the parklands. Ducks and black swans forage industriously among the reeds, while the city’s residents variously stroll, jog and bicycle along the park that stretches along the entire length of the waterway.
QXD 10/5/02 8:29 PM Page 31 THE CITY 31 There are numbers of people living below the policy-ascribed poverty line in the post-industrial city, but they may not all be there forever. Rather than focus on who is ‘poor’, in receipt of welfare or not at any particular moment in time, it is more useful to talk of the deepening social and economic inequalities in the city (Sen, 1992). But the notion of a city divided sharply and neatly into rich and poor is an oversimplification of material reality. While the vast proportion of people living in the west and the north are all economically vulnerable, they are differently positioned in their networks and neighbourhoods.
