Gove is starting to remind me of the Jesse character from the Fast Show; each week he pops up with some new edict. "This week I will be mostly...telling eachers to use traditional methods of discipline such as lines".
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Eextraordinary; here is the most hated education secretary I can remember, constantly tinkering and proclaiming. the most arrogant man there has ever been in cabinet. Yet the right wing will constantly frame this as a failing of the left or, more specifically, of teachers (who of course are all bleeding heart liberals who get weeks and weeks of free holidays). How on earth has this been allowed to happen? How has this slippery toad gotten away with shattering the education system and the confidence of those within while successfully scapegoating the people he's toying with?FFS....again.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
First 10 seconds.*
That what you're after? He really has redefined the notion of the eminently slappable face, hasn't he?
* I really couldn't take any more than that.
Name an event where gove hasn't made a total cunt of himself
J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/feb/03/michael-gove-berlin-wall-state-private-schools
Is he intending to extend funding to £30,000 a pupil in the state sector then?
Is he intending to extend funding to £30,000 a pupil in the state sector then?
Manter
Lunch Mob
He's giving more and more signs of being a man on the verge of the nervous breakdown. He just pops up, says really surreal stuff and buggers off again. Wtf about calling educationalists 'the blob' that's a) strange and unprofessional behaviour and b) not something any sane person would admit to.
And wtf common entrance?! What is he smoking?
And wtf common entrance?! What is he smoking?
J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
Doesn't common entrance have MFL in it? How is he intending to force that on state schools when MFL isn't even compulsory in primary until next year? Even when it does become compulsory next to fuck all seems to have been done to ensure anything approaching adequate provision.
Fuck your Berlin Wall, build it even higher and then nuke the side with the private schools
Fuck your Berlin Wall, build it even higher and then nuke the side with the private schools
King Biscuit Time
Well-Known Member
He just smacks of self-validation brought on by yes men and stuffy Tory twats who haven't set foot in a school since the 1970s.
Getting kids to weed sports fields? Really? Really? REALLY? Even an entry level civil servant at the DfE might stop to think "There might be Heath and Safety implications here" or "What will the companies to whom we have awarded the contracts to weed our sports fields think of this?'
Oh, and I expect one of things a lot of parents treasure about state schools is that they're fuck all like private schools.
Getting kids to weed sports fields? Really? Really? REALLY? Even an entry level civil servant at the DfE might stop to think "There might be Heath and Safety implications here" or "What will the companies to whom we have awarded the contracts to weed our sports fields think of this?'
Oh, and I expect one of things a lot of parents treasure about state schools is that they're fuck all like private schools.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
He's making stuff up. He's making out state schools don't have after school clubs, which is bollocks.
King Biscuit Time
Well-Known Member
Brian Moore and Michael Rosen both critical of Gove on Twitter this morning for turning writing (lines) and exercise (laps of the pitch) into punishments.
Laps of the pitch? Yes. LAPS OF THE FUCKING PITCH.
I'm afraid its a terminal case
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
...mixed with his own memories of school of course.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
To facilitate state schools extending their days to those of the independent sector is he also proposing extending school holidays to the length the independent sector have?
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
On 'Today' they've just played a clip of his 'World at One' interview with Martha Kearney during which he let slip the phrase..."The thing about the legacy is...."...then checked himself, and mumbled some 'apology' about "self-aggrandisement"
The tory leadership stakes...and they're off...
The tory leadership stakes...and they're off...
FiFi
Hot Cross Bunny
Or housing school staff and their families in on-site homes so they can, occasionally, see their own children!
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Hmm. A lot of his "warm fields of the past" guff comes across more as fantasy than memory, but perhaps his general loathsomeness just makes me cynical.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Memory tends to do that.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Or housing school staff and their families in on-site homes so they can, occasionally, see their own children!
Don't give him ideas!
eatmorecheese
He's fallen out of the car again
On 'Today' they've just played a clip of his 'World at One' interview with Martha Kearney during which he let slip the phrase..."The thing about the legacy is...."...then checked himself, and mumbled some 'apology' about "self-aggrandisement"
The tory leadership stakes...and they're off...
This.
He's surrounded himself with a coterie of swivel-eyed special advisers (would love to be a fly-on-the-wall in one of their "blue sky thinking" sessions) and is now attempting to position himself politically with an eye to the future, in the manner of a South American populist, without the charm.
FiFi
Hot Cross Bunny
I know, I'm Sorry.
But when you start trying to compare private schools with state schools you have to remember they are VERY different creations. it's not just a case of extending the school day, it's a completely different structure to the timetable and staffing.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
I know, I'm Sorry.
But when you start trying to compare private schools with state schools you have to remember they are VERY different creations. it's not just a case of extending the school day, it's a completely different structure to the timetable and staffing.
I know.
That was my point.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
One of the teachers Whose classroom i clean reckons he was abused at school so is trying to get his own back on teachers
He is clearly aiming for his very own miners' strike legacy...smashing the NUT. That's pretty much his sole aim. He, like others of his ilk, don't actually give a fuck what goes on in state schools. Why would they? Nope, his entire period in office has been about baiting the NUT and a systematic undermining of teachers in general.
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