Sentences with phrase «poor at grammar»

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The scheme's critics argued that Specialist Schools encouraged segregation in education, insofar as the middle class parents who were long best placed to ensure favourable outcomes from school admissions regimes of grammar schools would continue to be able to get their children into the better schools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgrounds.

Poor Grammar If you look at the way the message is written, it sounds like it was created by someone who doesn't speak English as their native language.

Their team has published some research claiming that poor grammar really can have an impact on your dating success, or lack thereof — and an enormous one at that.

The same analysis also found that pupils from poorer backgrounds who performed just as well as their more well off peers were still less likely to attend grammars, with 66 per cent of children who achieve level five in both English and Maths at Key Stage 2 who are not eligible for free school meals going to a grammar school compared with 40 per cent of similarly high achieving children who are eligible for free school meals.

At the end of the hour, as Max, Mike, and David put their pens away and zip up their bags, Ms. Bassett warns her students that there are consequences to becoming successful and writing with poor grammar: «You'll get ridiculed in my class.»

Her plan is, to put it very mildly indeed, highly controversial — and the PM has already signaled that (a) the new policy will take steps to ensure that poor kids will have a fair shot at a grammar school education and (b) she doesn't intend to impose selective schooling on every community.

At present, 80 per cent of high - achieving children from more affluent backgrounds in Kent attend grammar schools whereas in poorer families, it is only only 57 per cent.

«If you look at the attainment within grammar schools, poorer children do better in grammar schools than they do in other schools,» said Mrs May.

Kent councillors want grammar schools to take more pupils from poorer backgrounds at the expense of children from outside the county

Under the proposals, grammar schools will be encouraged to work with nearby primary schools to improve access for poorer pupils and be more flexible about admissions, allowing children to join or leave at 14 or 16.

This could mean results for poorer pupils increase at the same time as the grammars expand their intake, but Jones warned this should not be seen as a reflection that grammars were therefore working for the poorest pupils.

Do you have stats for a comparison between performances of poor children at comprehensives in fully comprehensive areas, and poor children at «non-selective» schools in areas where there is 11 - plus and grammars, e.g. Kent?

Not only do you have to make sure the book you have just written doesn't have any major plot holes — after all, it isn't good to leave poor Joe hanging off the edge of the cliff at the end of Chapter Three and never get back to him — but you have to make sure your grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc., are all done properly.

What You See Is Where You're At (2001, short), The Way Out (2003, short), Pilgrimage from Scattered Points (2006, short), Bogman Palmjaguar (2007, short), Paddington Collaboration (2007, short), Achterhaven Splinters (2008, short), An Abbeyview Film (2008, short), Another Day of Gravity (2008, short), George (2008, short), A Grammar for Listening (parts 1 - 3)(2009, short), Anna (2009, short), David (2009, short), Helen (2009, short), Lester (2009, short), All Divided Selves (2012, doc), The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluted Followers of Joanna Southcott (2012), Depositions (2014, short), To the Editor of Amateur Photographer (2014, co-dir, doc)

Even if they decide to invite you to a job interview after seeing your poor grammar, they may be a bit condescending at the meeting because you write «your» instead of «you're».