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by JAMR
Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:32 pm
Forum: St James and St Vedast
Topic: David Boddy on boys only schools - TES Connect article
Replies: 57
Views: 95280

Re: David Boddy on boys only schools - TES Connect article

I was talking about primary school as my son is 5. I was not making any comments about mixed race schools as I have no experience or knowledge on the subject. My little boy is in a class in a rural school with 22 white boys and 6 white girls. Most of them have never talked to a black person. My son...
by JAMR
Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:40 am
Forum: St James and St Vedast
Topic: David Boddy on boys only schools - TES Connect article
Replies: 57
Views: 95280

Re: David Boddy on boys only schools - TES Connect article

JAMR wrote: My experience of al ranges of racial mixed schools did nnor operate remotely like this. In a predominantly white school, there was no issue with a low number of black kids, but it became an issue when the school became mostly black. Once it was 90% black it stabilised and the white kids...
by JAMR
Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:30 pm
Forum: St James and St Vedast
Topic: David Boddy on boys only schools - TES Connect article
Replies: 57
Views: 95280

Re: David Boddy on boys only schools - TES Connect article

I think girls are a very good influence on my little boy at school. But also, ignorance breeds predjudice. If you never meet a black person you will be frightened when you finally do and believe whatever you are told about them. If you grow up with black children all around you, you barely notice t...
by JAMR
Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:20 pm
Forum: St James and St Vedast
Topic: David Boddy on boys only schools - TES Connect article
Replies: 57
Views: 95280

Re: David Boddy on boys only schools - TES Connect article

Lots of "primary" schools are excellent with both boys and girls - they don't assume either boys or girls are better at all sorts of studies, games, behaviour etc. And they very often have both girls and boys playing together at football, rugby, tennis, exercise, etc etc Better and more m...
by JAMR
Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:06 pm
Forum: General discussion of SES
Topic: The SES and Regional Schools in England
Replies: 60
Views: 114602

Re: The SES and Regional Schools in England

Chittani, you said, The idea that Any group or person will try and avoid responsibility and use power to get the best for themselves. is based on a very hard-line view of what evolution dictates. Human beings are the most successful animals not because we are the toughest, meanest and most selfish p...
by JAMR
Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:12 pm
Forum: St James and St Vedast
Topic: David Boddy on boys only schools - TES Connect article
Replies: 57
Views: 95280

Re: David Boddy on boys only schools - TES Connect article

Research on single sex or co-ed schools indicate that girls tend to do better in girls only than they do in co-ed, while boys are not affected as much. It is also thought that co-ed schools tend to moderate the boys behaviour over what might develop in a boys-only school. It depends upon what outco...
by JAMR
Sun Jul 24, 2011 3:44 am
Forum: St James and St Vedast
Topic: David Boddy on boys only schools - TES Connect article
Replies: 57
Views: 95280

Re: David Boddy on boys only schools - TES Connect article

Woodgreen, you said, Is it really 'distraction' that is the issue, or is it simply much easier to indoctrinate the boys and girls separately in the SES's 'old-fashioned' values? Research on single sex or co-ed schools indicate that girls tend to do better in girls only than they do in co-ed, while b...
by JAMR
Sat Jul 23, 2011 11:01 pm
Forum: Cults and religious organisations generally
Topic: Another Guru in Deep Trouble
Replies: 49
Views: 75178

Re: Another Guru in Deep Trouble

JAMR, These extended lectures are not appropriate for a discussion forum. You don't seem to want to communicate, but only to hold forth and enjoy the sound of your own sonorous voice. All I was trying to do was disprove your statement that morals are entirely relative - which wasn't hard, as it's a...
by JAMR
Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:34 am
Forum: General discussion of SES
Topic: The SES and Regional Schools in England
Replies: 60
Views: 114602

Re: The SES and Regional Schools in England

Chittani, you said, I don't subscribe to JAMR's view, which seems to be that cult and culture have some kind of moral equivalence. This is not my view. I hold the view that morals are relative and subjective and are neither imposed by a higher being nor arise in some in way independent of humanity s...
by JAMR
Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:28 am
Forum: General discussion of SES
Topic: The SES and Regional Schools in England
Replies: 60
Views: 114602

Re: The SES and Regional Schools in England

Woodgreen, you said, And yes JAMR, I too am very cynical about some aspects of life - and in my case the SES - because until I joined, and 3 years after, I exited, I was dealing with life's up's and downs. I am sorry to hear that your life has had hardships, however as you say life does have its ups...
by JAMR
Sat Jul 23, 2011 2:53 am
Forum: Cults and religious organisations generally
Topic: Another Guru in Deep Trouble
Replies: 49
Views: 75178

Re: Another Guru in Deep Trouble

Woodgreen, you said, And gender does seem to be a tremendously big issue for the SES to come to terms with in the modern world i.e. the one that exists outside of their parameters. Here we agree, the momentum of gender equality in the ‘outside’ world really does challenge their views. I will not use...
by JAMR
Sat Jul 23, 2011 2:21 am
Forum: Cults and religious organisations generally
Topic: Another Guru in Deep Trouble
Replies: 49
Views: 75178

Re: Another Guru in Deep Trouble

Chittani, you said, You seem to think that without a God there is no way to establish any morality. This is an old argument, but not valid. I have not said this. I have said that a God is the only way to argue the case for an absolute and objective morality. All societies have a moral code of behavi...
by JAMR
Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:57 pm
Forum: Cults and religious organisations generally
Topic: Another Guru in Deep Trouble
Replies: 49
Views: 75178

Re: Another Guru in Deep Trouble

Woodgreen, you said could you confirm that you are a new member, have recently left the SES ( in South Africa if I read your post correctly) and you spent quite a number of years in there. I was on this forum for a couple of years in the mid 2000’s. I left the SES in South Africa in 1998. I was a me...
by JAMR
Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:34 pm
Forum: Cults and religious organisations generally
Topic: Another Guru in Deep Trouble
Replies: 49
Views: 75178

Re: Another Guru in Deep Trouble

Bluemoon, you said, Firstly JAMR, I engaged with you as I wanted to try to reason with you through the points you made, and as CM noted, I have been well trained to do this through SES. It was par for the course to have to ‘reason’ in this ‘long-winded’ (as Chittani put it!) manner. The SES does not...
by JAMR
Wed Jul 20, 2011 2:43 pm
Forum: Cults and religious organisations generally
Topic: Another Guru in Deep Trouble
Replies: 49
Views: 75178

Re: Another Guru in Deep Trouble

woodgreen, you said, That said JAMR, your exchanges with Bluemoon seem to deny how her experience in leaving the SES has affected her, Lambie or not. I did not deny bluemoons experience, just as I noted that my experience with SES violated my own individuality. If bluemoon wants to get an audience f...

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