Educkation Reaform

Mel P hits the name on the head, as only she can. This garbage is just more of the same. Still, as schools retreat from teaching trivia such as literacy and numeracy, they're freeing up time to deal with the real dangers:


A four-year-old girl was barred from eating a packet of chocolate buttons at her Cheshire primary school.
Zara Owen was stopped from eating her lunch box treat by a teacher at Dee Point Primary School, in Chester.

The school said sweets had been banned under its healthy eating policy because children were bringing in too many

Funnily enough, it was only last week that the British Dieticians Association came out in favour of using phonics to teach reading.

No, that was sarcasm, but what is it with these people ? Can you imagine the reaction if OFSTED claimed the right to search their private property ? Instinct tells me that a search of the average teacher's belongings would be likely to turn up substances far more harmful to health than chocolate. But, no, these people are special. Don't none of you taxpayers dare question them. And so they carry on, goosestepping over the ordinary, decent members of the public until such time as someone finally snaps and arranges one to one tuition on Property Rights 101 with Mr Cluebat. At which point these fascist freaks then cast themselves as Jesus on the cross, another perfectly innocent victim of the tide of violence sweeping our nation's classrooms. Scum.

Still, there is an upside to this. Nothing is quite as likely to help along a child's intellectual development as the sight of some smelly, semi-literate freak launching into a spittle-flecked tirade directed at a 4 year-old child over a pack of chocolate buttons. It isn't just a metaphor, that is socialism in action: nasty, brutal and ultimatly utterly cowardly.