Swirlygirl I was sorry to hear that you are unwell and hope your better soon. I am not attacking you personally only some of your views. When you have some one that has only just been caught by the safety net of the D.S.S. and are under constant attack from all sides, I have to listen to M.P.'s saying that "all these single parent family's, Who have kid's just to get a council house and live on the dole" I am only one of many who have to live this way. I do not won't or expect sympathy. But when you are struggling to make ends meat, you react very badly to people who threaten that lifeline.

As for my spelling, I only attaxk when attacked. & stop dissing. I've lived in a deprved area, which did you mean depraved or deprived. And as for experience, I was at my kid's birth and witnessed it all but that doesn't mean that I know what is like to give birth just because you see someone else coping with a problem doesn't mean you know all about it.

As for being above everyone else far from it I know many people that are far worse off than me and who cope with it better, just as I know people who are better off and don't.

As for my ability to read then try this, is dulne mé cé féad obair sa dó teanga.

As for being as you put it "being as angry s you so obviously are" far from it

Yes I do have many, many friends some for more than thirty-five years.

As for he was making a point, no I'm sorry he was not he failed miserably.

As for kids not getting lower marks, they do as part of the mark is for presentation in English, and I.T. is just about imposable to do as homework with out a P.C.

And it is common courtesy not to resort to name calling, which just shows a lack of a good argument. At no point have I resorted to name-calling.

If you can't read, what good does a computer do? Who can't read I read English, Old English, Irish, Anglo-Saxon some Old Norse. I can't spell.

Dyslexia is word blindness where you and most people see words as a group of letters people with dyslexia see a picture or paten and as there ar 40,000 word and 20,00 technical terms we have to try and memorise all of them.

I am also left handed, now you did not say which hand you are missing but if it's the right one then you will know what its like to have to fit in to a world That dose things differently to you. I am not trying to annoy you but get you to understand Understanding not sympathy.

As for your graduating in 1995 my youngest started school in 1995 and in that 7 years there have been a lot of changes some for the good some not so good

As for corporal punishment the bottom is better than the hand. As for bulling my son had two broken fingers a broken arm and a stone in the eye that left him with tunnel vision for 18 months just because he had a slow physical development not starting puberty till 16 1/2 this with his birthday in late September made him the oldest and the smallest in his year.

He is now 22 and is still not over this it has left him very weary of people and suspicious, so finds it difficult to make friends but he is married with one son, and has a job.

If you make sweeping statements and generality then you will upset people just remember that for every £1.00 criminally take out of the DSS, about £10.00 are not clamed for every £100 spent on DSS fraud only £50 is recovered, for every £100 spent on tax evasion about £1000 is recovered.

What you may not be aware of is DSS capping that is to say that they workout how much you need and no mater how much you qualify for you will not get any more. Even child benefit is deducted from income-support penny for penny just as carer's allowance is. Unlike the rest of the EU.

The one thing that doses make me mad is that when I fill in forms and I must put my self down as unemployed. And as you agreed I have to work long and hard so I'm not unemployed. Civilisations are judged by how they treat their weakest members.

There are some mud-cater's that you have made so annoyed that they dear not reply as that kind of language is discouraged on the cat.

This will be my last post on this thread so don't expect a reply to any reply you may make as this is not getting us any where.

All the best Ferret.