Education Maintenance Allowance - Condems Plunge New Depths.

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 This grant is intended to allow the poorest teenagers in England to carry on at school into the sixth form, and give them the same opportunity as others, to benefit from higher education. The withdrawal means that a two tier system now exists in our schools. As ever under the Tories; one for the rich and another for the poor.
 The BBC has just raised millions of pounds from volunteers for Children in Need. They should show that they have some balls by donating ALL of the money to these deprived kids. It is education that teaches you to ask why? It is education that teaches you to not to accept the given facts but to probe deeper to find out the real truth. It is education that produces doctors, nurses, and most of all provides opportunity. It doesn't guarantee wealth, in money terms, but it provides the nourishment of the mind.
 I have only one choice now and that is to take to the streets and protest and to harass my local M.P. with bucket loads of post that she will be too thick, and too indoctrinated in the ways of hate, to understand. As for the Liberal Democrats I wish them nightmares, ill will and a future in the despised dustbin of history. Liars everyone of then - may they rot in hell. The lice on the Tory vermin.

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