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On his fifty-fifth birthday the president decided to (1)_____ some prisoners of the (2)_____ age as a gesture of good will Not too many, but one, say, from each of the twenty of thirty (3)_____ prisons in the small state. They would have to be carefully selected (4)_____ not to give trouble once they were out. Men perhaps had been so (5)_____ in prison that they had ceased to have and real contact with the outside world. None of them was to be told a (6)_____ of his (7)_____ liberty. Mario was therefore (8)_____ when he was called to the Governor"s office one morning and told he was to be set (9)_____ next day. He had spent almost three quarters of. his life in (10)_____ working out a life sentence (11)_____ stabbing a policeman to death. He was a dull-witted man with no relations (12)_____ and no friends except his prison mates. The following morning was clear and bright. Mario (13)_____ no opportunity to say goodbye to (14)_____ but a guard (15)_____ him to the prison gates and wished him g6dspeed. Alone, he set off up the long white road leading to the town. The traffic, the incessant noise, the absence (16)_____ the secure prison walls terrified him. Presently he "sat down by the side of the road to think (17)_____. After he had thought for a long time, for his brain worked slowly, he (18)_____ a decision. He remained he was, waiting patiently until at last he saw a police car (19)_____ When it was near enough, he darted out into the road, obliging it to stop with a squeal of brakes. He had with him a little knife. When the young police officer got out of the car demanding (20)_____ what was wrong, Mario stabbed him very neatly just behind the right ear.
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Education is compulsory in Britain, whether at school "or otherwise"; and "other wise" is becoming more popular. In 1999, only 12,000 children were listed as being home-schooled. Now that figure is 20,000, according to Mike Fortune-Wood, an educational researcher. But he thinks that, as most home-taught children never go near a school and are therefore invisible to officialdom, the total is probably nearer 50,000. As usual, Britain lies between Europe and America. In Germany, home teaching is illegal. In America, it"s huge: over 1 million children are home-schooled, mainly by religious parents. There are a small minority among British home-educators, who consist mainly of two types: hippyish middle-class parents who dislike schools on principle, and those whose children are unhappy at school. The growth is overwhelmingly in this second category, says Roland Meighan, a home-education expert and publisher. One reason is that technology has made home-education easier. The internet allows parents to know as much as teachers. It is also a way of organizing get-togethers, sharing tips and outwitting official hassles. That supplements e vents such as the annual home-education festival last week, where 1,600 parents and children enjoyed Egyptian dancing and labyrinth-building on a muddy hillside in Devon. But a bigger reason for the growth is changing attitudes. Centralisation, government targets and a focus on exams have made state schools less customer friendly and more boring. Classes are still based strictly on age groups, which is hard for children who differ sharply from the average. Mr. Fortune-Wood notes that the National Health Service is now far more accommodating of patients" wishes about timing, venue and treatment. "It"s happened in health. Why can"t it happen in education" he asks. Perhaps because other businesses tend to make more effort to satisfy individual needs, parents are getting increasingly picky. In the past, if their child was bullied, not coping or bored, they tended to put up with it. Now they complain, and if that doesn"t work they vote with their (children"s) feet. Some educationalists worry that home-schooling may hurt children"s psychological and educational development. Home educators cite statistics showing that it helps both educational attainment and the course of grown-up life. Labour"s latest big idea in education is "personalisation", which is intended to al low much more flexible timing and choice of subjects. In theory, that might stem the drift to home—schooling. Many home-educators would like to be able to use school facilities occasionally—in science lessons, say, or to sit exams. But for now, schools, and the officials who regulate them, like the near-monopoly created by the rule of "all or nothing". The third statistics as pointed out in the opening paragraph, in view of Mr. Fortune Wood, is
On his fifty-fifth birthday the president decided to (1)_____ some prisoners of the (2)_____ age as a gesture of good will Not too many, but one, say, from each of the twenty of thirty (3)_____ prisons in the small state. They would have to be carefully selected (4)_____ not to give trouble once they were out. Men perhaps had been so (5)_____ in prison that they had ceased to have and real contact with the outside world. None of them was to be told a (6)_____ of his (7)_____ liberty. Mario was therefore (8)_____ when he was called to the Governor"s office one morning and told he was to be set (9)_____ next day. He had spent almost three quarters of. his life in (10)_____ working out a life sentence (11)_____ stabbing a policeman to death. He was a dull-witted man with no relations (12)_____ and no friends except his prison mates. The following morning was clear and bright. Mario (13)_____ no opportunity to say goodbye to (14)_____ but a guard (15)_____ him to the prison gates and wished him g6dspeed. Alone, he set off up the long white road leading to the town. The traffic, the incessant noise, the absence (16)_____ the secure prison walls terrified him. Presently he "sat down by the side of the road to think (17)_____. After he had thought for a long time, for his brain worked slowly, he (18)_____ a decision. He remained he was, waiting patiently until at last he saw a police car (19)_____ When it was near enough, he darted out into the road, obliging it to stop with a squeal of brakes. He had with him a little knife. When the young police officer got out of the car demanding (20)_____ what was wrong, Mario stabbed him very neatly just behind the right ear.
Forget Iraq and budget deficits. The most serious political problem on both sides of the Atlantic is none of these. It is a difficulty that has dogged the ruling classes for millennia. It is the servant problem. In Britain David Blunkett, the home secretary, has resigned over an embarrassment (or one of many embarrassments, in a story involving his ex-girlfriend, her husband, two pregnancies and some DNA) concerning a visa for a Filipina nanny employed by his mistress. His office speeded it through for reasons unconnected to the national shortage of unskilled labour. Mr. Blunkett resigned ahead of a report by Sir Alan Budd, an economist who is investigating the matter at the government"s request. In America Bernard Kerik, the president"s nominee for the Department of Homeland Security, withdrew last week because he had carelessly employed a Mexican nanny whose Play-Doh skills were in better order than her paperwork. Mr. Kerik also remembered that he hadn"t paid her taxes. The nominee has one or two other "issues" (an arrest warrant in 1998, and allegations of dodgy business dealings and extra-marital affairs). But employing an illegal nanny would probably have been enough to undo him, as it has several other cabinet and judicial appointees in recent years. There is an easy answer to the servant problem—obvious to economists, if not to the less clear-sighted. Perhaps Sir Alan, a dismal scientist of impeccable rationality, will be thoughtful enough to point it out in his report. Parents are not the only people who have difficulty getting visas for workers. All employers face restrictive immigration policies which raise labour costs. Some may respond by trying to fiddle the immigration system, but most deal with the matter by exporting jobs. In the age of the global economy, the solution to the servant problem is simple: rather than importing the nanny, offshore the children. Paragraph 2 and 3 are written to
On his fifty-fifth birthday the president decided to (1)_____ some prisoners of the (2)_____ age as a gesture of good will Not too many, but one, say, from each of the twenty of thirty (3)_____ prisons in the small state. They would have to be carefully selected (4)_____ not to give trouble once they were out. Men perhaps had been so (5)_____ in prison that they had ceased to have and real contact with the outside world. None of them was to be told a (6)_____ of his (7)_____ liberty. Mario was therefore (8)_____ when he was called to the Governor"s office one morning and told he was to be set (9)_____ next day. He had spent almost three quarters of. his life in (10)_____ working out a life sentence (11)_____ stabbing a policeman to death. He was a dull-witted man with no relations (12)_____ and no friends except his prison mates. The following morning was clear and bright. Mario (13)_____ no opportunity to say goodbye to (14)_____ but a guard (15)_____ him to the prison gates and wished him g6dspeed. Alone, he set off up the long white road leading to the town. The traffic, the incessant noise, the absence (16)_____ the secure prison walls terrified him. Presently he "sat down by the side of the road to think (17)_____. After he had thought for a long time, for his brain worked slowly, he (18)_____ a decision. He remained he was, waiting patiently until at last he saw a police car (19)_____ When it was near enough, he darted out into the road, obliging it to stop with a squeal of brakes. He had with him a little knife. When the young police officer got out of the car demanding (20)_____ what was wrong, Mario stabbed him very neatly just behind the right ear.
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