“The only reason Hymers is not no.1 is that a number of puils took a more advanced maths exam than the usual GCSE.”

“The long and short of it is that Hull's results are displayed differently to other compareable cities. Therfore we cannot be fairly compared with other cities. Hull is artificially low and the East Riding are artificially high.

End of story”

“As I have commented before, the "Dole Culture" is to blame in many ways. Why on earth bother to learn how to write (excepting to be able to sign on) etc. then having to get up in a morning,PAY transport costs to get to work. Break into a sweat for others,pay tax,Health Ins. buy your lunch,in any form,PAY to get home. Come off it ,this is for others. If they can get as much or in some cases more,by staying in bed, what's the point of learning? Also by educating the masses they might start asking too many questions as to how they are being manipulated and that won't do.”

“Rob, Deep in the business Centre (sic); Pot and kettle come to mind when reading your posting!”

“Ana, Hull,
Hull Trinity House does not have a 'select' few in the sense that you imply. Unfortunately I don't have the figures to argue that there are children at the school that do take English as an additional language but I'm sure the percentage is relative to the size of the intake.
I actually know of drug addict parents of a couple of Trinity boys so again you are wrong on that point and again I suspect the percentage is relative to the size of the school.
My son actually attends Hull Trinity House, and I am a loan parent on benefits (for now) and therefore my son does receive free school meals as do a number of other pupils.
Hull Trinity House takes a number of boys from all areas of the city in order to give children of all classes and backgrounds the opportunity to do well and receive a good education. Similar in fact to the way Pam, Hull mentions (may I also suggest reading 'Mind The Gap:Class in Britain Now- Ferdinand Mount. Which has a similar conclusion to the book Pam mentions.
I feel that many parents shirk their responsibility to encourage their childrens education not because they dont care but because they know no better.
It's a cycle that has to be stopped and the authorities can surely see that some of the answers at least can be found on this highly popular comment board!”

“I was educated at Trinity House and apart from St Mary's and Mallett Lambert schools the level of education in Hull has always been very poor It should be noted that until very recently it was a Labour council that ran the education for years - What went wrong ? You cannot blame a boundary if no effort is put in to improve basic standards or find high qulaity staff”

“This city of ours is in crisis. Education, Redevelopment, Employment... you name it, as a city, we are in a mess. Locally we argue, to no avail. We were abandoned as an economic centre back in the 1940's. Since then the city of Hull has been left to rot. We are the only city in England with undeveloped bomb sites from WW2. Our major fishing industry was flogged off on a national political whim. It was never replaced, and the dramatic decline has continued since then. The `working class' are now all chinese, we are left with a sub culture of families, some now 3 generations, whom have never worked and not all because of benefit scrounging, as the national press would have you believe. But because our base of industrial/manual workers has been abandoned. You only have to look at Government money pumped into Liverpool to name but one. Where is our help?
Our education problem stems from a total sense of despair, poor levels of expectations in the city, and it is not our fault. Our MP's fail us constantly, distant and too worried of their own carreers, we vote them in, they ignore our plight.
As families, we all try hard.
Mr Ross, I have a message for you. You sort your end out and as proud people of Hull, we will do the rest. Dont blame the people, accept some responsibility, afterall, its what WE pay YOU for.”

“With children crossing the border from Hull to the ER to go to school; some of those near to Hull, like Cottingham,have more Hull kids on their roll than local ER kids.”

“Hull at the bottom again, well I'm amazed... (i don't think).

The anti-education culture is the problem, plus generation after generation of wasters on benefits bully people into doing badly or they are beaten up as "swots". I pity any kid in Hull today, get out to the leafy suburbs Hull is for yobs.”

“Looking through these comments, it is plain to see where the problem lies. Hardly anyone who has posted a comment can spell or use the correct grammar. (with the exception of a few).
Is it any surprise as to why our schools are failing.
You should be ashamed of yourselves.”