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April 30 Council Tax. Religious Communities Exemption. Government Response.An unfathomable, obscure and ridiculous explanation, from a quite ridiculous set up! But, they have the power...ha, ha!
Religious Privilege? Privilege for Superstition? Privilege for Church, Crown and State. And, great 'privilege' for some of the richest organisations that cause the most appalling problems, and supported by only a few in the UK; backed by the Westminster Money Planet.
Are these (below) exempt?
Riding Schools; Sports Centres and Facilities; Sailing Clubs; Charitable Centres - Oxfam Shops...; Educational Buildings - Book Shops; Museums - Places of Heritage - Large Country Houses Open To The Public. So on...and on... Are those exempt?
More information for me to obtain on this subject! I do wonder why (sometimes) that we bother with a Government at all! 86% don't want Church or Faith Schools!
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April 21 Charity Status Independent Schools. Consultation on Draft Supplementary Guidance on Public Benefit and the Advancement of Education.
School - PTA's and PTFA's.
The Barmy Army
IN THE (Governments) CHARITY COMMISSION'S Draft Supplementary Guidance on `Public Benefit and Fee-charging', the Commission come back to an issue trailed in their general guidance: can a charity opt out of the charitable sector if the charity trustees `consider their responsibilities to meet the public benefit requirement ... too demanding'? This picks up on a theme appearing fairly regularly in media, usually on letters pages or blogs, where exasperated parents, learning that the total value of the tax benefits enjoyed by charitable independent schools is less than £250 per pupil per year, wonder why schools don't just save themselves a lot of grief and regulatory intervention by terminating their charitable status and operating outside the charitable sector?
ICS and Others - give the blood suckers in/of the Charity Commission the 'cold shoulder' on behalf of the Independent School Parent. Independent School Parents save the UK Taxpayer £20bn per annum. The State Education System could not cope if they had to take on all Independent School pupils!
www.charity-commission.gov.uk 'Consultation on Draft Supplementary Guidance on Public Benefit and Fee-charging'. Dame Suzi Leather 'Quango Queen' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1568137/Quango-queen-takes-on-the-public-schools.html
No wonder these people seem to live on a different planet. They don't spend half their spare time trying to raise money in PTFA's or PTA's for Independent Schools, or State Schools, trying to make up for the Government's (incompetent and appalling) inadequacies!
Why have we been rated in England as having the 'Worst Care' - Child Welfare of Children in the 27 Industrialised Nations of the World; this is something you could really be concentrating on - Dame Suzi! Is this true? And if it is? Why do you play about with unbelievable total crap like this and at all our expense, like: robbing Peter to pay Paul, except that you 'do it with the children's education money'. Peter and Paul, I am sure: were much more grown up! "The War To End All Wars"The unforgettable poetry of WWISunday 13 April 2008 16:30-16:56 (Radio 4 FM) Repeated: Saturday 19 April 2008 23:30-0:00 (Radio 4 FM) Josephine Hart explores the work of great poets at live events at the British Library, with readings from some of Britain's finest actors. Poems include: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/josephinehart/pip/2t1br/
War Never Changes
Young Gentlemen Do Forget
In that cavalry mess I heard queer conversations. Those officers belonged to the old families of England, the old caste of aristocracy, but the foul outrage of the war, the courage against all ideals of civilization had made them think, some of them for the first time about the structure of social life and of the human family.
They hated Germany as the direct cause of war, but they looked deeper than that and saw how the leaders of all great nations in Europe had maintained the philosophy of force, and had built up hatreds and fears, and alliances, over the heads of the peoples whom they inflamed with passion or duped lies. “The politicians are the guilty ones”, said one Cavalry Officer. "I am all for revolution after the bloody massacre. I would hang all politicians, diplomats, and so-called statesmen with strict impartiality”. “I’m for the people”, said another, “The poor bloody people who are kept in ignorance and then driven into the shambles, when their rulers desire to grab some new part of the Earth’s surface or to get their armies going because they are bored with peace”. “What price Christianity?” Asked another, inevitably. “What have the Churches done to stop war or preach the Gospel of Christ? The Bishop of London, the Archbishop of Canterbury; all those conventional, patriotic, cannon-blessing, banner baptising humbugs. God! They make me tired"!
The Same Words
Strong words to hear in a cavalry mess! Strange turmoil in the souls of men! They were the same words I heard from London Boys in Ypres ("Wipers" 1914-18 World War 1) spoken just as crudely. But many young gentlemen who spoke those words, have already forgotten them or would deny them.
‘Realities of War’ Philip Gibbs. Vol.1. P.244. (Copied by (3 Lt Navigating) Anthony Williams RNVR who served on HMS Nelson - WWII) More British Troops in Kosovo (get tough with the ring leaders). See, above.
Irena Sendler http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24574531/
April 19 Church Schools. Faith Schools. Private Schools. Public Schools and State Schools. UK.What books and DVD'S are in your School Library? Does, Anti-Spiritualist Material and Science get top marks, at last!School Libraries. Classrooms. Curriculum. Ofsted. Department for Children, Schools and Families. Starting next month, spiritualists' work will fall under more general consumer protection regulations, a move the government says will simplify the law and bring Britain into line with European Union rules. The government says the regulations target "misleading or aggressive" activities and "will not affect the supply of spiritualistic services." But many practitioners fear they could be sued by unhappy customers, or forced to prove in court that they really have otherworldly powers. Some envision having to make customers sign a waiver before a seance or a sitting. And they fear they might have to advertise that their services are for entertainment purposes only. The demonstrators liked the old law because they felt it made a distinction between genuine mediums and fraudulent ones. They see the new rules as lumping them in with other sellers of commercial services. They argue that while spiritualism has a commercial side, it is also a religion. "It's a belief system," said McEntee-Taylor, 50. "By putting us under consumer protection regulations, we have to prove what we believe. Other religions don't have to do that." Will they participate in the 'Spirit of the Law' or get round it - as with, the Anti-Discrimination Laws School Admissions Policy. Setting, yet, another very poor example to all our children and vulnerable by Authority.
Regulations on Spiritualism. (The selling of a misleading 'product' to the gullible and vulnerable)
SACRE. NASACRE. County Councils and Borough Councils. UK.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7354089.stm Spiritualism Regulations - Times are getting harder!
EBIBBBC - Action Network - EBIB. Educational Bureaucratic Irrational Behaviourism.
"To end this expensive time waster and its costly interference in the education of our children". "Philosophers from Plato to William James have allowed their
opinions as to the constitution of the universe to be influenced by the desire for edification. Knowing, as they supposed, what beliefs would make men virtuous, they invented arguments, often very sophistical, to prove that these are true". Bertrand Russell. Sophistry means, "the use of fallacious arguments, especially to deceive someone or a fallacious argument". Plato's argument was philodoxical, 'half belief/faith and half reason'. Future damage to our children could be incalculable when we carry on taking advantage of their natural credulity, purely on behalf of the aims of the captains of industry or our professed ideological leaders. The beguiling nurturing of children and young adults to accept willy-nilly the proposals of all forms of institutional programmes, however well meaning those programmes and ideologies maybe; at first glance. Private or State Education is for learning about the pros and cons
(discernment) of all viewpoints, and is definitely not the place for the indoctrination of the specific ideologies put forward by the never ending multitude of expensive and sometimes publicly invisible quangos. (Some, unfortunately, very selfishly, are intent on turning our schools into battlegrounds of ideological/religious - dogmatic/sectarian: theatres) April 15 Swarm IntelligenceAnimals and humans are alike!
But, humans swarm more, making them a lot more beastly generally than most animals; for all their good works, promises and softly-spoken words: within a subject of 'historically analysing group behaviour' and the effect that those words (love and devotion...) actually have on the overall quality (kindness) of human behaviour. The Rwanda atrocities being one 'small' modern example: these seem to be enhanced by groups (religions) that go in for emphasizing greater morality, personal virtue, exclusion of unbelievers, and some dogma of denial. This reaction is totally in reverse to what was intended and caused by the enhancing of group (religious or race or culture or economic) loyalties to an unpalatable or barbaric extreme. Also, possibly, by the group concerned concentrating on 'barbaric medieval stories' causing a dulling of the more modern human sensibilities that tend to have some greater 'respect' for the sanctity of life and freedom of the individual. Ref, Environment/culture and the quality of secular/religious based Education and the extraordinary; overriding; irresistible; 'power of the sub-group'. "The East having the ordeal of privation and the West the ordeal of desire" Saul Bellow.
Though, becoming human is a process and not some event, as many (religions) would have you believe!
The Age of Terror http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/age_of_terror/7345967.stm
Self-respecting teachers and Schools should teach what is self-evident.
There is only an infinitesimal chance that any form of 'spirituality' exists. In the very unlikely fact that this (thing or emotion...) may exist should be made very plain to all students, and in a combined effort by both the teachers and the schools. Both then will maintain some self-respect, for now, or in the future. The present situation in the UK is that many teachers and schools have long lost their discernment or self-respect in this matter; imparting distrust in the students and the general public through this major social disconnect; doing long term damage to an otherwise, what would be some very proud and mostly very good reputations. The UK Government's Education Policy of supporting the mostly dubious and unfathomable aims of Church and Faith Schools is thwarting the progress of what should be a more modern socially inclusive trust that they have with modern society and our very advanced children!
The School Easter Service. A Positive contribution towards 'Holocaust Training' was put forward. Justifiable anti-authoritarianism being a main theme and the barbarity of the run up to Jesus Christ's execution by crucifixion was made as vivid as possible by our Vicar. The Vicar was dressed up in a white frock with a pointed hat, competing, no doubt, with Harry Potter or 'Northern Lights' (Golden Compass). Hopefully not - the Clue Klux Clan. |
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