tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post26677464713478437..comments2024-03-29T11:13:00.338+00:00Comments on Ambush Predator: Kevin Johann The TeenagerJuliaMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-42240859449977232582011-03-24T10:25:10.836+00:002011-03-24T10:25:10.836+00:00Johann's teenage years playing arcade games so...Johann's teenage years playing arcade games sounds almost as sad as running a blog and playing World of Warcraft.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-84927639546129697682011-03-24T07:46:24.329+00:002011-03-24T07:46:24.329+00:00Any program of education reform that depends on ha...Any program of education reform that depends on having better teachers is bound to fail. We have the teachers we have- we can't breed better ones. Assembling a hand picked bunch of teachers, as at Eton and Harrow and apparantly in this program will only produce better results in the place they are assembled.<br />Better to give teachers and especially pupils an incentive to perform. How about a school leaving exam- so bright kids who want to get out have qan incentive to work, and teachers who want to get rid of disruptive pupils have an incentive to teach?Patnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-67912641960575268622011-03-24T05:51:11.078+00:002011-03-24T05:51:11.078+00:00"Local 'good' kids cant afford this k...<i>"Local 'good' kids cant afford this kind of activity, they have to watch in awe as these young car theives etc tear around the track, all paid for by ...."</i> <br /><br />And they'll soon make the connection that hard work and effort doesn't pay off half as well as being the squeaky wheel that gets all the taxpayer-funded grease..<br /><br /><i>"Hari's just a male version of Polly Toynbee with a smaller arse..."</i> <br /><br />Not that much smaller!<br /><br /><i>"..."Latoya" with with her daughter...Akeela. "</i> <br /><br />GAH!<br /><br /><i>"Johann and his gang obviously had no class."</i><br /><br />Heh!<br /><br /><i>"Johann attended the sixth form Woodhouse College on the mean streets of er, leafy North Finchley and Friern Barnet..."</i><br /><br />What is it with lefties and their florid imaginations? He's yet another @PennyRed...JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-50016939309882152242011-03-24T05:47:40.240+00:002011-03-24T05:47:40.240+00:00"What about the kids who don't behave bad...<i>"What about the kids who don't behave badly or play truant? WTF do they get?"</i> <br /><br />I'd say 'An education', but probably they don't...<br /><br /><i>"...and thought the article was morphing into 'The Secret Diary of a Rent Boy'."</i> <br /><br />:D<br /><br /><i>"Walk out of deserts? Dear Johann prefers desserts so big you can walk into them."</i> <br /><br />*chuckle*<br /><br /><i>"Hey, we could even have a name for these people - we could call them parents!"</i><br /><br />Quite. Schools don't START these kids on the road to nowhere, do they?JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-31161662196790057962011-03-24T01:20:33.416+00:002011-03-24T01:20:33.416+00:00Johann attended the sixth form Woodhouse College o...Johann attended the sixth form Woodhouse College on the mean streets of er, leafy North Finchley and Friern Barnet, which doesn't exactly fit with his claims to have dropped out, which would also be deeply inconsistent with getting in to Kings College Cambridge.<br /><br />Though he didn't much like school and Woodhouse don't even list him as an alumni, he must have done fairly well at GCSEs in 1996, taken A levels at Woodhouse in 1998 and snapped along to Cambridge. He might have managed to fit a couple of months in of goofing-off, but maybe he's confusing the summer hols with dropping out? <br /><br />Nope, if Johann has been successful it shows that some people still managed, even in the late 1980s, to get the equivalent of a grammar school education, complete with all those tiresome lessons, homework and examinations.Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-88946204098656225052011-03-24T01:05:47.237+00:002011-03-24T01:05:47.237+00:00The one time I (and 2 friends) bunked off, we went...The one time I (and 2 friends) bunked off, we went to an auction at Sotheby's. The Trocadero?? Johann and his gang obviously had no class.periwinklenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-72835047916600682362011-03-24T00:05:44.095+00:002011-03-24T00:05:44.095+00:00"[...] a Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) – a calm p..."<i>[...] a Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) – a calm place where he could be taken out of lessons to go to be given one-on-one attention</i>[...]"<br /><br />We had that when I was at school in the '70's. Only it <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_corporal_punishment#United_Kingdom" rel="nofollow">wasn't called a PRU</a>.<br /><br />Bring back capital[1] punishment!!!<br /><br /><br />[1] Or did I mean corporal? It's one of them anyway ;)PJHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11331948749785269728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-61281602596152790472011-03-23T23:21:23.042+00:002011-03-23T23:21:23.042+00:00mitchell-images said...
Local 'good' kids...mitchell-images said...<br /><br />Local 'good' kids cant afford this kind of activity, they have to watch in awe as these young car theives etc tear around the track, all paid for by ....<br /><br /><br />Labour's legacy..if you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-90089032885113986182011-03-23T21:42:19.223+00:002011-03-23T21:42:19.223+00:00"Of the kids I hung out with then, some of us..."Of the kids I hung out with then, some of us have gone on to be successful, and some have continued to sink."<br /><br />Including Johann himself.SadButMadLadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17836368722377421009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-23182660377422814912011-03-23T21:21:10.074+00:002011-03-23T21:21:10.074+00:00Just watching Jamie's latest promotional stunt...Just watching Jamie's latest promotional stunt on TV now.<br /><br />No need for a Midsomer-style complaint with this motley crew...<br /><br />Even the wannabees have joined in, viz "Latoya" with with her daughter...Akeela. Who saw that name coming ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-90268933138421542982011-03-23T19:29:57.863+00:002011-03-23T19:29:57.863+00:00Hari's just a male version of Polly Toynbee wi...Hari's just a male version of Polly Toynbee with a smaller arse but without the menopausal paranoia.Lady Virginia Droit de Seigneurnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-81105421784033183972011-03-23T19:24:47.149+00:002011-03-23T19:24:47.149+00:00Come on - this is a spoof, right?
Surely nobody o...Come on - this is a spoof, right?<br /><br />Surely nobody on earth could be that much of a sanctimonious twat.Greencoatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-4392772496417556612011-03-23T19:16:36.237+00:002011-03-23T19:16:36.237+00:00Quite honestly, this makes me sick. I have a frien...Quite honestly, this makes me sick. I have a friend who owns a motor cross track, complete with top of the range bikes. The vast bulk of his bookings come from orginisations who deal with young criminals, problem kids etc. Local 'good' kids cant afford this kind of activity, they have to watch in awe as these young car theives etc tear around the track, all paid for by ....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-89559854438420552152011-03-23T18:08:02.924+00:002011-03-23T18:08:02.924+00:00And the best part of this individual .. slowly tri...And the best part of this individual .. slowly trickled down his mother's thigh !Captain Haddocknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-51139126238099267822011-03-23T18:06:46.904+00:002011-03-23T18:06:46.904+00:00It was forming a bond with a loving adult
So the ...<i>It was forming a bond with a loving adult</i><br /><br />So the answer is plenty of one-to one-attention. Now if only there were a person responsible for a small group of children, someone 'sympathetic and consistent' who could instruct and inform children while giving them the chance to 'bond with a loving adult'.<br /><br />Hey, we could even have a name for these people - we could call them parents!<br /><br />Only parents have had other things on their minds; sixteen years ago, Jenni Murray boasted on Womans' Hour that Britain had more working mothers of babies and under-fives than any other country in Europe.<br /><br />Go figure!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-36697130785697579272011-03-23T17:05:00.524+00:002011-03-23T17:05:00.524+00:00And all shall have prizes.
Especially the ones wh...And all shall have prizes.<br /><br />Especially the ones who are useless. It makes the adults feel so much better.Four Rsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-83115133847774259432011-03-23T16:53:59.675+00:002011-03-23T16:53:59.675+00:00Walk out of deserts? Dear Johann prefers desserts ...Walk out of deserts? Dear Johann prefers desserts so big you can walk into them.staybrytenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-45289194126137806022011-03-23T14:53:13.779+00:002011-03-23T14:53:13.779+00:00It's a pity we haven't any sizeable desert...It's a pity we haven't any sizeable deserts in the UK, deserts so big they can't just walk out of them. Forty days and forty nights sounds about right, long enough for these precious youngsters to think about priorities, and try to find within themselves some talents and the motivation to use them.PTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-61947182452693919872011-03-23T14:49:10.771+00:002011-03-23T14:49:10.771+00:00'Oh-er! Just where is this going?'
My reac...'Oh-er! Just where is this going?'<br />My reaction exactly Julia; especially when I read <br />'I spent most of my school-days in the arcades at the Trocadero Centre in central London'- and thought the article was morphing into 'The Secret Diary of a Rent Boy'.Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-48298189382834710682011-03-23T14:19:08.925+00:002011-03-23T14:19:08.925+00:00Gordo, correct. When I was a teacher, it was plai...Gordo, correct. When I was a teacher, it was plain that the worse a pupil behaved, the more time and attention (=resources) he or she got. The well-behaved and compliant were to some extent ignored - and of course that included most of the bright ones.<br /><br />If you were really bad, you got stuff like free holidays.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743685798068014455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-34989259842782143042011-03-23T14:15:18.028+00:002011-03-23T14:15:18.028+00:00"When I was sixteen, I dropped out of school...."When I was sixteen, I dropped out of school..."<br /><br />Or, to use the common parlance, 'left'.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743685798068014455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-23289773087962157922011-03-23T13:56:07.629+00:002011-03-23T13:56:07.629+00:00Behave badly and be given one-to-one tuition and a...Behave badly and be given one-to-one tuition and access to a pool table and dart board during school hours. What about the kids who don't behave badly or play truant? WTF do they get?<br /><br />If he wanted this " forming a bond with a loving adult " outside his own family he could have joined NAMBLA.Gordonoreply@blogger.com