Jul 2, 2002 07:37
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sink school
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education
Context: practically none, just a short remark, about a novel:
a funny and appalling multi-viewpoint portrait of a Liverpool sink school.
Sink may mean many different things and I am not sure whether it refers to the pupils or the school...
a funny and appalling multi-viewpoint portrait of a Liverpool sink school.
Sink may mean many different things and I am not sure whether it refers to the pupils or the school...
Responses
| 5 +5 | A poor-quality school where rejects from other ... |
Peter Skipp
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| 4 | school for minority students |
IgorD
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| 4 | sink or swim |
jerrie
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| 4 -1 | comprehensive school |
Klaus Dorn (X)
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+5
9 mins
Peter Skipp
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A poor-quality school where rejects from other ...
... schools are sent as a last resort. By analogy, see 'sink estate' -- a poor-quality housing estate (UK Eng.) or project (US Eng.) where perople too poor or troublesome for other areas are given housing by the local authorities or the state as a last resort.
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Note added at 2002-07-02 07:49:05 (GMT)
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Incidentally, Liverpool is a large city with more than its fair share of \'Inner City\' social problems -- drink and drugs, petty and not-so-petty crime, disfunctional families, poor quality housing and shooling. Clearly, the sink school cap fits :)
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Note added at 2002-07-02 07:52:24 (GMT)
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If it were a comprehensive (or else a grammar, or public) school, the UK English \'mot\' would be \'a comprehensive\', resp. \'a grammar-school\'.
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Note added at 2002-07-02 07:54:05 (GMT)
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If it were a comprehensive (or else a grammar, or public) school, the UK English \'mot\' would be \'a comprehensive\', resp. \'a grammar-school\'.
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Note added at 2002-07-02 07:49:05 (GMT)
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Incidentally, Liverpool is a large city with more than its fair share of \'Inner City\' social problems -- drink and drugs, petty and not-so-petty crime, disfunctional families, poor quality housing and shooling. Clearly, the sink school cap fits :)
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Note added at 2002-07-02 07:52:24 (GMT)
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If it were a comprehensive (or else a grammar, or public) school, the UK English \'mot\' would be \'a comprehensive\', resp. \'a grammar-school\'.
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Note added at 2002-07-02 07:54:05 (GMT)
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If it were a comprehensive (or else a grammar, or public) school, the UK English \'mot\' would be \'a comprehensive\', resp. \'a grammar-school\'.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "I feel that's it, thanks!"
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9 mins
Klaus Dorn (X)
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Klaus Dorn (X)
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comprehensive school
seems to me as if the expression is borrowed from the phrase "everything and the kitchen sink", which basically means "all inclusive".
I see the term on the Internet a lot in connection with "kitchen sink school":
Kitchen Sink School
Term coined by the British art critic David Sylvester for a social realist tendency in British painting of the 1950s. Its subject-matter frequently anticipated that of Pop Art. The artists involved included John Bratby, Derrick Greaves and Jack-Smith.
See the links below.
I see the term on the Internet a lot in connection with "kitchen sink school":
Kitchen Sink School
Term coined by the British art critic David Sylvester for a social realist tendency in British painting of the 1950s. Its subject-matter frequently anticipated that of Pop Art. The artists involved included John Bratby, Derrick Greaves and Jack-Smith.
See the links below.
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Piotr Kurek
1 min
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| neutral |
Mary Worby
: The hits on the internet for 'kitchen sink school' are largely in connection with the school of painting referred to in your quote, and have nothing to do with educational establishments ...(-:
14 mins
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I was just talking about where else the expression was used...sorry
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| disagree |
John Kinory (X)
: Irrelevant
2 hrs
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| disagree |
Sam D (X)
: I agree with Mary Richard's comment. Also, a comprehensive school is not always synonymous with low-quality education. I went to a comprehensive and although not fantastic, it was by no means a "sink school".
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I never said comprehensive = low quality, where did you read that?
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11 mins
school for minority students
Submersion -- also known as sink or swim; teaching Limited-English-proficient students in mainstream, English-language classrooms that offer no special language assistance; violates civil rights guarantees under the Supreme Court's Lau v. Nichols (1974) decision.
http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/ncbepubs/reports/bestevidence/glossa...
http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/ncbepubs/reports/bestevidence/glossa...
20 mins
sink or swim
was the term applied to the Comprehensive School I attended, usually referring to the pupils having to cope in such large numbers with so many mixed abilities.
In the context of your sentence it could mean that the school doesn't have the option of sinking or swimming...it has sunk! The pupils will sink! Education has gone down the plug hole of the (kitchen) sink!
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In the context of your sentence it could mean that the school doesn't have the option of sinking or swimming...it has sunk! The pupils will sink! Education has gone down the plug hole of the (kitchen) sink!
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