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Please explain SCOTLAND? MANCHESTER?

posted 13 years ago by ib011f9545i
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I don't really watch this programme,I have seen the odd episode over the years but not a huge fan.
I have always been uneasy about adults watching adults in school uniforms pretending to be school kids.

I had read it was moving to Scotland and watched a few minutes tonight to see what it was like.

I am Scottish and live in Scotland,I hate Scottish Nationalism and hope the UK never breaks up but the ignorance about Scottish issues sometimes annoys the hell out of me.

When Scotland and England joined together Scotland retained 3 things to keep it Scottish,EDUCATION,RELIGION and LAW.
(Every schoolkid in Scotland used to be taught this but that was 30 years ago when I was at school,god knows what they teach them now).
Anyway there is a British army and we have British passports but there is no British education system and no British legal system,there is an english and welsh legal system and a scottish legal and education system.

So how can a school move to Scotland?it is true that many private schools in Scotland use english exams rather than Scottish ones but the school in Waterloo road is not a private school is it? there are no academys or free schools in Scotland either so what sort of school is it meant to be and how were all the kids supposed to have moved from the north west of England?

[–] NothingButTheBest 13 years ago

I think Waterloo Road is now a private school technically, but all the kids and staff are paid for by the rich woman. I guess you could say the new school is technically unrelated to the old one, but shares the same name.

The world is your lobster.

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[–] NothingButTheBest 13 years ago

Exactly, they could have tried to make the new school as close to the original as possible and I doubt people would have really minded if the building had changed a bit. They could have made some excuse like it was renovated over Summer or something.

The world is your lobster.

[–] Moss-37 13 years ago

Oh,so you didn't see those great big bloody mountains in the background then?Don't recall any of those in Rochdale.

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[–] asdf189756 12 years ago

Why cant actors play characters of different ages?

[–] avia2 12 years ago

Why cant actors play characters of different ages?

More like: why do older actors always play young?

High School Musical, Home & Away, Corrie - most of the young characters look years beyond their supposed age.

[–] Prismark10 12 years ago

Strict laws regarding working conditions of young actors hence why they tend to have over 16s.

Its that man again!!

[–] annmckenzie-334-115271 12 years ago

I think it's an independent school. They have now mentioned A Levels which are not part of the SQA so I'm not sure if that's an error or they are sat in independent schools in Scotland.
The school is located in Greenock which is about 25 miles from Glasgow.

[–] alixfowler 12 years ago

I can't see how it's fee paying as who would be paying for the boarding house kids? I also thought that they were doing SQA exams as otherwise why would the kids from that other school jump ship to do English exams?

[–] annmckenzie-334-115271 12 years ago

Lorraine Donnegan pays for the boarders. She used that as an incentive to get Michael to come to Scotland. It could have been a script error when A levels were mentioned in the last episode. Maybe written by an English person who doesn't get the difference. It was mentioned by the teacher when she went to the pole dancing club.

[–] alixfowler 12 years ago

Yes exactly it must have been a slip as SDcout said something about it was ok when I was doing GCSE's but she never then said now i'm doing Standard Grades or intermediate 2 Highers or just straight to highers. Also a bit weird for the kids coming up from down south or up north whichever you prefer as up here in scotland your year 7 (?) is our last year of primary so we don't start high school till your year 8 (aged 12). So does that mean there is a strange mix of ages or it explains why the three main older Waterloo Road students aren't in regular classes to not highlight this point?

[–] Craigix 12 years ago

Some schools in scotland do Alevels and GCSEs, especially private schools.