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I was reading the news today.

What stirkes me about this, is do the girls really need to check so regularly? Once a month, do they think "Oh, I wonder if I'm still a virgin. I'll go and check." I know that isn't the mentality really. Is it another expression of the age-old "I'll get together with people like me" combined with an obsession with virginity/non-virginity as shown in the delightful Channel Four documentary Virgin School, and in the "technical virgins" of the Bible Belt? Or by giving over their bodies to their elders, are these women self-empowering?

Then I read this.
There are many points I want to make, and I can't form an argument or structure right now.

• Charities operating in the UK only have to have 8% of their income going towards the actual "charitable work". This isn't necessarily directly relevent, but I thought I'd throw it in.
• A charity is a company that makes no money on purpose. So any school that set up with the idea "So we'll take the money and spend them on teachers and books and stuff, and if we have any left over we'll get some more stuff for the school, for the kids. We won't make a profit, we'll give it all to the kids" surely is a charity.
• What benefit do I, a resident of Pocklington get from any of the schools in Pocklington? Should I just be greatful that they provide somewhere for the pesky teenagers to go during the day? Should the state schools lose their charitable status, after all, what do the residents get from them? After I had moved to a private school, how were they contributing to my education?
• "Mr Johnson said private schools tended to get more specialist teachers and spend more money on facilities such as science labs." Well, there's no one saying "Oh no we can't refurbish your lab, or sell you equipment, you're a state school, and you're not allowed"
• Is he suggesting that that private schools should let the local state school use their labs for free, or should they charge?
• Basically his viewpoint appears to be "The nasty private schools are doing better than us. It's not because we're mismanaging, it's because they refuse to share. So we're not going to try to improve state schools by our own efforts, but instead we'll stamp our feet and demand they give us stuff"
• There are definitely grounds for removing charity status from some private schools, but they aren't about lending the state their facilities.