The Big Question: Should children be taught in single-sex classrooms?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/the-big-question-should-children-be-taught-in-singlesex-classrooms-1035057.html

Summary:
Schools minister Sarah McCarthy-fry thinks children should be taught in single-sex classrooms. She believes that girls would learn better in single-sex classrooms, because then they won’t feel intimidated by boys en feel more relaxed, because they would be removed from social pressures. Besides girls opt less often for science, because this would feel as a boy’s subject. The results of research whether girls do better in single-sex classrooms has showed that they do. Although there’s a reverse, because all leading performances are selective single-sex schools than comprehensives. So this could be a reason why single-sex schools are doing better than comprehensives.

Opinion:
I think single-sex classrooms has its pros and cons. On the one hand I could imagine girls would feel more confident when the boys are removed, because they won’t feel the need to act cool while they aren’t and they don’t have to be scared anymore that boys will laugh at them when they give a wrong answer. For those reasons I could picture girls will do better at single-sex classrooms. On the other I think it could restrain the boys and girls to have a relationship with the opposite sex and besides it there isn’t yet a conclusive research which prove girls do better at single-sex classrooms.

Piracy at sea: Britons held on Sirius Star say crew are being treated well

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/26/piracy-somalia-sirius-star

Summary:
Two hostages of the oil tanker Sirius Star were allowed by their pirate captors to have a call and said they were fine and that they had not been mistreated by the pirates. The crew of 25 person are just continuing their normal day and their families didn’t have to worry about them. It’s not clear if the hijackers were standing with the hostage during the call, as a matter the possibility remains that the hostage was obliged to say they were not treating by the pirates.
A pirate gang seized the ship up at the Somali coast at 15 November and are now asking for a ransom of ₤15m.

Opinion:
I think it’s ridiculous that you won’t even be safe at the sea of imprisonment anymore. The pirates are blaming innocent people who just do their work to earn money. But those pirates think they are heroes, without money, and think piracy is not a criminal way to get money. It won’t surprise me if the hostage, who was allowed to make a call, was obliged to say all hostages had not been mistreated by the pirates. Perhaps it’s their strategy to receive their ransom, because the hostage even asked about the results of football during their call. I just can’t believe the pirates don’t treat them if they are immoral enough to hijack a ship.

Four deaths a week in system offering 'patently inadequate' care for children, says Ofsted report

Delays found in almost all serious case reviews and too many staff unable to recognize signs of abuse.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/nov/20/children-young-people-ofsted-abuse

Summary:
The Ofsted report has showed that the standards of care in the network of schools, care workers and children’s home established would achieve inadequate. Care workers, staff in schools and health centers aren’t able to recognize signs of children who really need help. This caused involved children and delays in judging what went wrong in the child protection system. Councils don’t learn from their mistakes.
A second point which the Ofsted report covered is that the education system is failing poorer children. The less money your parents have, the less services you can receive. This is a disadvantage for the child, because the poorer children are harmed by education what compounds development.

Opinion:
In every system a mistake could happen once, but when a mistake is made you should learn from it so it would never happen again. In the case of Child protection there have been made lots of mistakes, but they didn’t avoid those mistakes after the first one. I can’t understand why those faults could have been made more than once. The Government should research every case were something went wrong, because I think that’s the best way to prevent those mistakes for a second time. Besides I think Government should improve the education system. There shouldn’t be any inequity in this system, because all children have to receive the same care and support by education and shouldn’t be harmed when there parents aren’t that rich.

Britney:’ My new life is worse than jail’

Britney Spears has admitted her new image is a SHAM and claims she would feel freer if she was in prison.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/usa/article1941584.ece

Summary:
Britney Spears’ life has been changed, but she felt she still has to pay for the past time. She admitted in an interview her new life feels like a ‘Ground hog day’. The way she is now living feels like she will never get her freedom back. For that reason she said in an interview, she would feel freer if she was in prison. People are still judging her these days and Britney thinks it’s not fair she still have to fight against all wrong and bad opinions of people. Spears said she has learnt from the mistakes she has been made and admit she had a weird life, but things are changed and it’s now time to forget the past and give her some freedom and a new chance for her future.

Opinion:
Everyone knows that when you are a famous person, media will write wrong things about you and happenings will be overstated by them. If you make a really big mistake you have to pay longer than a unknown person would have to for the same mistake. The same is in the case of Britney Spears, she acted really weird last year and today she still has to pay for it. Actually, I think she has been paid long enough and it’s now time to refresh our opinions about her and give her a new chance to let her show what kind of new person she now is and give Britney her freedom back.

Pressure of being the favourite got to me

X-factor’s Laura White was send to home by Saturday

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/x_factor/article1919674.ece

Summary:
Laura White, who was still running in the competition to win the X-factor, was send to home by Saturday. Now she is telling everybody that the pressure of being the favourite, got to her. She felt so stressed about her performance, because she didn’t want to disappoint her voters. She thought she did a good job and she got positive comments of the judges and sudden they were all taken away. At that moment she was so confused, sad and angry that she hid away after the vote. But when she was remedied of her frustrated feelings the judges had gone, so they didn’t offer her any comfort.

Opinion:
I think it’s really sad for her she was send to home. But in this interview she is telling most of the times about her confusing of being send away, while she got such positive comments of the judges. If I were her I wouldn’t make a big issue about this anymore, because this could may be cause her fans. She would better focus right now on her career and use her reputation to tell the media about her plans of being a singer than keep discussing about her dismissing. I think people are more interested about her future plans than her deporting. Laura has to show her positivity.

Missing Shannon 'drugged' in flat

Missing Shannon ‘drugged’ in flat
Missing school girl Shannon Matthews

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7724274.stm

Summary:
Shannon Matthews is a school girl and disappeared in February. The court has now heard that Shannon’s mother, Karen Matthews and Michael Donovan had drugged and subdued Shannon in the flat where she was found. Prosecutor Julian Goose said it was all part of a ‘wicked and dishonest plan’ to kidnap the girl by her mother and the man whose flat she was found in. Mr. Donovan was to tell the police the plan was to release Shannon in Dewsbury market and for Donovan to ‘discover her’. The main point of their plan was to claim the reward money for the youngster’s return.

My opinion:
I think it’s ridiculous to use your own daughter to claim money. In the first place, a young girl will never forget what happened to her especially because it was her very own mother who came with this plan. In the second place all their family, friends and other well-known people who helped Karen with searching to her daughter. In the last place the cost of the search to the police, who was almost 3,2 million pounds. This disappearance became one of the highest-profile missing person inquires ever seen in the UK, while Karan all that time knew were her daughter was. I think this woman is really derailed.

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