maandag 18 april 2011

Royal Wedding - invitations

This article is about the Royal wedding and who they are going to invite. If you haven’t received an invitation by now than you are not invited. There are 1,300 guest invited to Westminster Abbey and only 600 of them will attend the queens lunchtime reception at Buckingham palace. Some artists are already known to be invited and they are David and Victoria Beckham, Ben Fogle he is a TV presenter and Tom Bradby and he is a political editor. The politicians have also been invited; Ed Miliband is invited to Abbey, David Cameron is invited to Abbey and lunchtime and George Osborne and Nick Clegg will only be at Westminster Abbey. Furthermore it is not known yet who is invited.

Prince William is going to marry and who is going to be invited? I personally hoped that they would only invite family and friends because a wedding should only include the ones you care about. I was afraid that they would have to invite people because of political reasons or that it would become a “famous people wedding” but I am glad to hear that they simply don’t care about that.  Of course they have invited some of those people but it could be worse. The whole wedding is a big affair considering the hard economical times however they are a part of the royal house and only such a wedding would suit them. They are two people who love each other and are about to be married I wish them all the happiness in the world. 

Private schools line up to become free

When a private school becomes free it means that they are becoming a state-funded, independent school. They can have their own curriculum and control their own admissions. Some critics fear that if there will be more free schools that the neighboring state schools will close because all the students will transfer to the free schools. However, the private schools who want to become free are in opinion that it will do good for all students. These schools want to expand and let all children benefit from their education system and it doesn’t matter what background these children have.

All changes have a good side and a bad side; however I think that this change has more down sides than positive ones. The consequences of private schools becoming a state funded school aren’t very pleasant. The private school get to keep their own curriculum and keep on doing everything what they always have been doing only now they get to do it on the public’s expenses. Of course it would do good for the children whose parents can’t afford a private school but what will happen to the teachers that work in a state school; they will get fired. The article says that they won’t change their class seize so how can they take in new students? I think the government should use the stretched education budget to improve the state schools that already exist.