Quote from v4forlife :

wow........you really need collage, or maybe a year 8 english lesson.

GET OFF THE FUNKIN PHONE, STOP TEXTING, AND LEARN TO SPELL.

Unfotunately I'm not lucky enough to own such a comprehensive apparatus. Please, bear with my grammar.

***edit: keeping it tidy -Janezki

Quote from faster111 :

Unfotunately I'm not lucky enough to own such a comprehensive apparatus. Please, bear with my grammar.

Heh, just proved his point, I fear!

Quote from tristancliffe :

Heh, just proved his point, I fear!

Perhaps instead of buying S2 he should get a new keyboard.

Or, if it is a training issue, please see picture.

I like the idea of the EMA. Historically, only wealthier families' children get better educated because their parents can afford to keep them while they do their further and higher education. Poorer families' children often feel the pressure to start earning ASAP, and they drop the option of further education.

I'm not interested in dictating what the students spend their EMA awards on. If the EMA comes down to being a substitute for pocket money, but in so doing relieves the pressure on the individual to quit school and get a job, then I think the EMA has succeeded.

Quote from duke_toaster :

Perhaps instead of buying S2 he should get a new keyboard.

Or, if it is a training issue, please see picture.

http://mahopa.de/bilder/funny-forum-pictures/caps-lock.gif

arghhh

Please, try to keep the discussion on topic, so we can all have so much fun in here. :grouphug:
***edit: keeping it tidy -Janezki

Quote from faster111 :

arghhh
Please, try to keep the discussion on topic, so we can all have so much fun in here. :grouphug:

Shh. You're not helping my argument.

[Edit] I don't appreciate my posts being edited, even for the best of reasons, in a way that diminishes the meaning of my original post. I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't do that again.

I dunno, maybe I'm confused about the ESA(?) thing.... The Gov't just gives the money out to anyone that falls below a certain income level? Uhhh
Shouldn't that money be more dependent on Grade point averages? and
getting more $$$ depending on maintaining a certain grade point average?

Quote from Racer Y :

I dunno, maybe I'm confused about the ESA(?) thing.... The Gov't just gives the money out to anyone that falls below a certain income level? Uhhh
Shouldn't that money be more dependent on Grade point averages? and
getting more $$$ depending on maintaining a certain grade point average?

You usually have a meeting with the head master of the school who will set you targets that you must achieve to obtain the payments. If you don't achieve the targets you will lose the payment for that week. You will also lose the bonus payment for that session.

Problem is most head masters don't seem to stick to there guns with this

Quote from faster111 :

arghhh



Please, try to keep the discussion on topic, so we can all have so much fun in here.

***edit: keeping it tidy -Janezki

Wow, for a moment there I thought Faster111 had started typing correctly Then I saw the edit note.

faster111: Consider yourself being warned. I'm sure there was no need for that kind of language.

Quote from whitey6272 :

Not sure what your problem is, EMA only goes to families who's yearly income falls below a certain amount (families who cant go around buying computer games when ever they feel like it... which i think maybe you can, the reason you have this stupid opinion) it also encourages children who could finish school and start earning 100+ pounds a week in a full time job (alot for a 16 year old) at say mc'donalds, to carry on education resulting in a better job... more money, giving his kids a better future an not relying on EMA.

I fall under that group, and I find EMA is a joke. People who'd normally never goto college now do for easy money, and because they don't want to learn **** around all the time. Where as these people would just get on the dole after school.

A guy I went to college with had his whole family on dole (who could get it) and he was getting EMA, then ALG (Adult Learns Grant, same as EMA but for people too old for EMA), after all of this free money, he applied to uni, got the loans and grants, then left. His now bumming around on the dole.

And lots of people from college did the same, so the extra money isn't getting them better jobs. Just means they don't apply for dole once they leave school.

Seeing as no one is sticking to an LFS related topic, i've renamed the title slightly and moved this to off-topic.