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Is she the education Lord Frost?

Take the bully away from children and they are exposed as the gobshite they really are

Once again, Oxbridge connections and opinions guarantee tasty sinecures.

Female Toby Young with hair.

Like Toby Young she has got a long way in education by telling various Tory ministers exactly what they want to hear.

I work in an academy where the academy chain seems to come up with a new initiative every month. Most of the stuff has been lifted from other academy chains or from other countries. Few of the initiatives are ever properly implemented and are usually abandoned after a few months. Staff turnover is very high by the management is very good at PR.

When I was a kid, in the 1980s, there was an assumption that - particularly around kids - anything American was intrinsically bigger, better, flashier than its old world equivalent. In many a TV drama, the "cool kid" would be the token Yank. Part of the appeal of utter trash such as Knight Rider or the A Team, was that it was American, and therefore took place in a wonderland where M16s got fired, helicopters crashed, and everyone had cool cars.

It appears that some of this sentiment is still going strong with the government. They really do seem to be suckers for a transatlantic accent. Probably think everything sounds cooler in it.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Wed May 04, 2022 9:48 am When I was a kid, in the 1980s, there was an assumption that - particularly around kids - anything American was intrinsically bigger, better, flashier than its old world equivalent. In many a TV drama, the "cool kid" would be the token Yank. Part of the appeal of utter trash such as Knight Rider or the A Team, was that it was American, and therefore took place in a wonderland where M16s got fired, helicopters crashed, and everyone had cool cars.

It appears that some of this sentiment is still going strong with the government. They really do seem to be suckers for a transatlantic accent. Probably think everything sounds cooler in it.

Alternatively, that's where a lot of the funding comes from.
And a guaranteed post parliament job on easy street shilling for Billionaires.

That’s why Dowden flew out their for his “Woke” speech.

She's been making an arse of herself again. Promoting a documentary with a picture of a wall with a fake Winston Churchill quote on it. She hasn't taken the criticism well.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue May 17, 2022 6:01 pm She's been making an arse of herself again. Promoting a documentary with a picture of a wall with a fake Winston Churchill quote on it. She hasn't taken the criticism well.

Yup - see both Fenton and the Education³ thread here.

I wonder if the pressure is telling. She's chairing the Social Mobility Commission and overseeing a new Michaela school in Stevenage. I'm sure somebody else is doing the hard work on the latter, but it all adds up. Mucking about on Twitter is easier than that.

Boiler wrote: ↑Tue May 17, 2022 6:15 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue May 17, 2022 6:01 pm She's been making an arse of herself again. Promoting a documentary with a picture of a wall with a fake Winston Churchill quote on it. She hasn't taken the criticism well.

Yup - see both Fenton and the Education³ thread here.

Whilst I'm kind of over and done with Fenton's nickname thing, "Sideshow Birb" is a fucking peach

Now that you mention it...

And the working with kids despite clearly fucking hating them.

MisterMuncher wrote: ↑Tue May 17, 2022 6:47 pm

Boiler wrote: ↑Tue May 17, 2022 6:15 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue May 17, 2022 6:01 pm She's been making an arse of herself again. Promoting a documentary with a picture of a wall with a fake Winston Churchill quote on it. She hasn't taken the criticism well.

Yup - see both Fenton and the Education³ thread here.

Whilst I'm kind of over and done with Fenton's nickname thing, "Sideshow Birb" is a fucking peach

A touch racist perhaps; in the style of David Baddiel / Jason Lee.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... SApp_Other

An alternative view, I wonder if the Head of the Social Mobility Commission would ever allow herself to consider this?

She's on to "Shakespeare could get taken off the curriculum like in lots of places in America", I see.

Has Linda Bellos taken over at the DfE?

Poor Shakespeare, he's either getting banned, or they're letting blacks and women play characters like Othello and Juliet. What's a poor gammon to do? Aside from get angry and carry on watching Ant and Dec?

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 9:13 pm She's on to "Shakespeare could get taken off the curriculum like in lots of places in America", I see.

Has Linda Bellos taken over at the DfE?

When I was doing my GCEs we were the first year *not* to do Shakespeare in English Lit.

This was in 1979...

Boiler wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 10:16 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 9:13 pm She's on to "Shakespeare could get taken off the curriculum like in lots of places in America", I see.

Has Linda Bellos taken over at the DfE?

When I was doing my GCEs we were the first year *not* to do Shakespeare in English Lit.

This was in 1979...

And the world did not end in a storm of ice and fire.

It was pretty snowy at the beginning of the year though