Friday, 10th October 2008
The Mad Britons' Tea Party
12:01pm
When you read things like this, you really do think it’s now a case of ‘will the last person to depart the UK please turn out the lights’:Pupils as young as five will be questioned on whether they think their teachers promote healthy living, give them good guidance on relationships and keep them safe from bullying.
These are proposals by the education-free Department for Children, Schools and Families and the schools inspectorate Ofsted. When in the mid-nineties I warned in my book All Must Have Prizes that Britain’s educational lunacy was turning the respective roles of teachers and pupils inside out, the educational establishment responsible for this accused me of gross exaggeration. Now we have arrived at a situation where not only are schools subjecting children to propaganda over how to live, arising from the...
Friday, 10 October 2008
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