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EDUCATION MATTERS

I expected a mixture of Dallas, with had waited for over a year to
R.T. Fancy LOCAL Dynasty and Hill Street Blues, get a plumber and then 'It had
TEACHER images from the T.V. screen. cost them and arm and a leg!'...
Landscape What I found was warm friendly its nice to see that some things are
Gardener in VISITS THE USA people happy to talk to strangers, similar to good old Britain.
West Swindon Whenever anybody important delighted to explain the American To walk any sort of distance
goes to the USA they always seem systems, both school and national. when a car can give you a ride
20 years of experience. to visit Boston. Kenneth Baker, The school itself is situated 45 seems very strange to this car
Minister for Education and mins to the north of Boston, orientated society, drive-in banks,
Turfing, Paving, Norman Fowler, Minister for serving 3 small towns, the biggest drive-in shopping malls, but thank
Fencing, Employment went there last year. of which is Boxford. The first goodness they still believe in
Planting new Gardens image of the school was one of getting out of the car to go to
Rockery Construction, This year James Williams, Deputy sheer size, land is not a problem school. The lessons seemed the
Head of Greendown visited a in the USA and therefore the state same, perhaps education is the
Pergolas etc. Musconomet School just before is generous to both schools and same the world over? It certainly
New gardens Easter. householders alike. seemed as if I was in a school in
The catchment area is also very the heart of rural England.
TEL: 875174 large, some of the pupils spend up As to the future, the staff and
to 1 hour on the bus before parents of Musconomet were fas-
BATHE reaching school . . . school starts cinated by the education system
at 7.30 a.m.! This could also in Britain, and Greendown in
explain why the pupils car park particular, and kept the questions
& SELBY was about 10 times the size of the going for over three and a half
staff one.
hours. There is also a strong
America obviously has some possibility that we can exchange
MANOR ROAD, WESTCOTT PLACE very difficult areas with specific pupils (for harrassed parents, I'm
SWINDON. TEL: 29352 problems but this is not one of afraid not premanently!) so that
them. Boxford ranks as one of your children could have first
(Behind Mike Knight Tyres) America's top 100 richest towns, hand, first rate experience of the
with the budget for the school American school system and way
• ACCIDENT REPAIRS for the year 1988/89 being of life.
$7,000,000, (nearly £4 million) To summerise, a fabulous ex-
Food, clothes and cars were all perience that others can share in
• SERVICING of a similar price or even slightly the future, a link that should last
cheaper than this country, the for a number of years with a
• MOT TESTS house prices and wages were a lot benefit to both schools.
higher. The people that I stayed

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