How to Teach English and Find More Schools and Places

England has immigrants with high birth rates so we need more schools. What's the answer. Several solutions to consider. Build on wasteland. (Not green belt land. Unused land. Under bridges. Derelict land.) Use public libraries more, especially at evenings and weekends or days when they are normally closed. Run alternative schools in school holidays for catch up on English and activities like art and sports. Run two sittings in schools like Singapore did. One operates rom 7 am until 1pm, a second from 2 pm until 8 pm. Have a system where you can take an exam after a certain number of school day or hours of learning credits. Children who are ill or keen can take extra hours of supervised homework and take self-administered tests early to do exams early and free up places. Run a system for filling up places when pupils are away sick or on planned holidays, so children otherwise at home can go to any school which has a free place and use a token to 'buy' a day's lessons at that school. Find schools with shorter terms and run extra days at the school. Bring retired teachers back to work at schools full time. Encourage more people to teach their own children at home. They can follow set books. Allocate a weekend hour, or a weekend holiday in a school and amonthly test at home or in school to use school equipments and socialise. Have children who are sick or have poor English watching lessons on computers at home. Supplement and check on their progress with end of the day catch up lessons. Call volunteers to run English language classes in churches and mosques and synagogues for immigrants - in exchange for translation of documents into their languages. Angela Lansbury, blogger, author, speaker.

Never mind Pythagor-us. Please Pension-us in school maths lessons and exams.

   How many people use Pythagorus at least once after leaving school? Did you, do you or will you? How many have a pension after leaving school? Did you, do you or will you? How many do a tax return? Did you, do you or will you?

   Never mind pythagor-us. Let's have pension-us. Teach pensions in maths lessons at school. Keep exam questions all about managing your money.
   I've just retired. I had hoped to do nothing. But I'm totally baffled by a tax return. Please teach us about pensions and tax returns in school. And when unemployed. And when retiring. 

Saving Suicides

A person sits on a ledge reportedly for up to three hours before jumping. (New York.) She was recovering from anaesthetic after a facelift. What can we do to prevent it happening again?
Please can a bright person in a school or 6th form college devise a large butterfly net or similar device. How about some net swung from a helicopter to scoop to safety a person dangling on a ledge. Or suspend a hammock underneath the ledge to catch them. Raise the net to just underneath them.
In addition build or insert a safety device like a net balcony. I agree we need escapes, but just a fire escape, under all escape windows and rooftops.

What can you say to talk somebody down? Jonny Benjamin was talked down by somebody (Neil Laybourn) who started by asking why he was on the Waterloo Bridge, London, and just got a conversation going. But the pivotal phrases were, "You can get through this,' and 'Things will get better'. This happened in 2008. In 2014, six years later, Jonny is still alive and started a twitter hunt and found the person who had saved him.


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National Suicide Prevention Helpine on 1-800-273-8255 or go to www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org.

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