People can no longer afford to live, work and have kids in London? Well, I never. This feels like the kind of thing we should completely ignore until every building is owned by a hedge fund and all of the businesses are staffed by robots.
Of course, who wants to live in London? Expensive, crowded, tatty, miserable place.
Is it just London? In Manchester in an area where for the first four years of us living here my elder kids had to attend primary way out of area as every local school was full, my youngest’s primary not only has spaces but has reduced from two to one form entry for the past two years. And it is an area where house prices and rents have *skyrocketed*.
Where I live near Bristol they’re building a new school that isn’t needed. Meanwhile the local GP surgery, which is desperately needed, has been shut for nearly two years due to “boiler problems”.
That is what happens when you force residents of a city to compete with the entire world for both housing and jobs
I appreciate that obviously it’s a complex issue, but after decades of alarm about growing class sizes, it seems odd to call falling numbers a crisis.
Oh no! The schools are stretched cause pupil numbers are ballooning! Crisis!! Oh wait, no they’re plummetting! Also a crisis for some reason. Let’s just hope they don’t stagnate, that would be AWFUL.
One thing for sure, Farage would never have let this happen.
That was from 2021 and the birth rate has declined since then. So overall we will see fewer children entering education, although there will be regional variations.
Why would you knowingly bring kids into a world that is on the brink of a climate collapse, suffering late stage capitalism and on the edge of WW3?
This evening I discovered the battle for after school spots and my line manager was frantically trying to secure after school club for his two kids and only managed to get one in due to the school putting the booking link live 2 mins ahead of schedule and the 2FA delayed him further. It sounds stressful af and this isn’t even in London so god knows what that’s like in the city.
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People can no longer afford to live, work and have kids in London? Well, I never. This feels like the kind of thing we should completely ignore until every building is owned by a hedge fund and all of the businesses are staffed by robots.
Of course, who wants to live in London? Expensive, crowded, tatty, miserable place.
Is it just London? In Manchester in an area where for the first four years of us living here my elder kids had to attend primary way out of area as every local school was full, my youngest’s primary not only has spaces but has reduced from two to one form entry for the past two years. And it is an area where house prices and rents have *skyrocketed*.
Where I live near Bristol they’re building a new school that isn’t needed. Meanwhile the local GP surgery, which is desperately needed, has been shut for nearly two years due to “boiler problems”.
That is what happens when you force residents of a city to compete with the entire world for both housing and jobs
I appreciate that obviously it’s a complex issue, but after decades of alarm about growing class sizes, it seems odd to call falling numbers a crisis.
Oh no! The schools are stretched cause pupil numbers are ballooning! Crisis!! Oh wait, no they’re plummetting! Also a crisis for some reason. Let’s just hope they don’t stagnate, that would be AWFUL.
One thing for sure, Farage would never have let this happen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Kingdom
That was from 2021 and the birth rate has declined since then. So overall we will see fewer children entering education, although there will be regional variations.
Why would you knowingly bring kids into a world that is on the brink of a climate collapse, suffering late stage capitalism and on the edge of WW3?
This evening I discovered the battle for after school spots and my line manager was frantically trying to secure after school club for his two kids and only managed to get one in due to the school putting the booking link live 2 mins ahead of schedule and the 2FA delayed him further. It sounds stressful af and this isn’t even in London so god knows what that’s like in the city.