Toby Young is a c0nt

[nino_savatte]

The local council was completely behind Tobes's school. They even went as far as to evict the tenants (all of them charities or community groups) from Palingswick House, which is being refurbished for shitloads of money.

One of the school's supporters is a former councillor and the spouse of a current councillor who happens to write for the Daily Heil. Now I'm not suggesting that anything untoward has taken place but...

Here's Hammersmith and Fulham Council trumpeting the arrival of WLFS.
http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/News/Free_school_gets_the_ok.asp

Here's an earlier piece from The Standard. Notice how the caption beneath Tobes's picture uses the word "educator" to describe him. Surely a matter of debate?

 

[shygirl]

Its fucking scandalous the way these people get away with their incompetence.

 

[Awesome Wells]

Does he have any background in teaching?

 

[DotCommunist]

well lets have it right- in order to bolster his cherry picking project Mr. Gove has diverted funds away from basic education for all. That's what I expect from tories, they steal public funds for their pet projects which invariably turn out to be white elephants. And the money has vanished into the black hole marked 'a ministers latest fail'.

I care about education in an abstract manner (I don't have to teach them). But really? The man has quite clear;y raided a sensible fund to bankroll his fucking free school project- and if anyone has an interest in the history of educational practises they will know why this whole scheme was arse from day 1.

But he is shaking things up New broom! Same tired old tory cock wielding it though

 

[Corax]

Does he have any background in teaching?

He taught in an inner city comp in Leeds for about 7 years, and then did a short stint with a local education regulator in London.

 

[cantsin]

He taught in an inner city comp in Leeds for about 7 years, and then did a short stint with a local education regulator in London.

is that serious ? I know he was comp educated himself, and he could have conceivably done that during 2000 - 2007 I guess:

"After being sacked by Vanity Fair in 1998, Young remained in New York for a further two years, working as a columnist at New York Press. He returned to the UK in 2000 and is currently an associate editor of The Spectator, where he writes a weekly column, and a blogger for The Daily Telegraph. His blog was long listed for the 2012 George Orwell Prize for blogging.[11]"

 

[nino_savatte]

is that serious ? I know he was comp educated himself, and he could have conceivably done that during 2000 - 2007 I guess:

"After being sacked by Vanity Fair in 1998, Young remained in New York for a further two years, working as a columnist at New York Press. He returned to the UK in 2000 and is currently an associate editor of The Spectator, where he writes a weekly column, and a blogger for The Daily Telegraph. His blog was long listed for the 2012 George Orwell Prize for blogging.[11]"

No, he's had fuck all teaching experience.

 

[cantsin]

No, he's had fuck all teaching experience.

ah, my irony bypass issues flaring up again, forget I spoke

 

[nino_savatte]

ah, my irony bypass issues flaring up again, forget I spoke

Eh?

 

[nino_savatte]

In Yesterday's Telegraph blogs, Tobes whines "Latest fee schools 'scandal' is just another story Clegg manufactured to attack Gove".

I see Nick Clegg has been briefing against Michael Gove again. Scarcely a week goes by without one of the Left-wing papers carrying an anti-free schools story. Yesterday, the Guardian claimed that half of the new primary free schools opening this September have failed to fill all their places, and today the Observer led on "leaked information from a senior government source" (Clegg, in other words) that Gove has transferred £400m from the Basic Need funding pot to plug a funding gap in the free schools programme.

The first story is pure flimflam. Very few primaries, whether free schools or not, will have filled all their reception places at this point in the admissions cycle. The way admissions work is that primaries go out with offers around mid-April, parents are given at least two weeks to respond, then, when the primaries have worked out how many places they have left to fill, they go out with a second round of offers, give the second lot of parents two weeks to respond… and so on. This process is called "the churn" and often continues right up until the beginning of September. So it's hardly surprising that new free schools haven't filled all their places yet. I don't suppose more than 5 per cent of primaries have. Without a comparison between free schools and council-run primaries, it's impossible to say whether the about-to-open free schools are faring badly or not.

No mention of the 3 headteachers who have left his school in mysterious circumstances.

 

[ViolentPanda]

In Yesterday's Telegraph blogs, Tobes whines "Latest fee schools 'scandal' is just another story Clegg manufactured to attack Gove".


No mention of the 3 headteachers who have left his school in mysterious circumstances.

He's hardly going to do so, is he, especially if he personally had anything to do with it (and given his ongoing penchant for using the school as a backdrop to self-publicising, I strongly suspect that Cueball's "hands-on" proprietorial manner is involved).

 

[cantsin]

ah, my irony bypass issues flaring up again, forget I spoke

(had thought Corax was being serious)

 

[Gingerman]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsore...ion.html?WT.mc_id=605722&source=TrafficDriver
Shame it was'nt over a cliff.....

 

[equationgirl]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsore...ion.html?WT.mc_id=605722&source=TrafficDriver
Shame it was'nt over a cliff.....

The editor of the article needs pushing over a cliff - 'in vein' indeed.

 

[nino_savatte]

From that article

His career didn’t get off to the greatest start either: “I kept getting sacked by various Fleet Street newspapers and it got me thinking: ‘the only way I’m going to hold down a job is if I set up my own magazine and appoint myself editor’ – so that’s what I did.”

The magazine didn't last that long.

The words "inspirational" and "Toby Young" don't belong in the same sentence.

 

[ViolentPanda]

From that article


The magazine didn't last that long.

The words "inspirational" and "Toby Young" don't belong in the same sentence.

The staff mounted a coup against him and chucked him out, as I recall.

 

[nino_savatte]

The staff mounted a coup against him and chucked him out, as I recall.

Indeed, they did. It says a lot for his 'leadership' of the WLFS too. Plus ca change and all that.

 

[Coolfonz]

The staff mounted a coup against him and chucked him out, as I recall.

no, it folded. there weren't any staff. assuming you mean `the modern review.` burchill and him fell out.

 

[Gingerman]

http://www.asbestosthetruth.com/new...-host-for-asbestos-the-truth-2014-conference/
Wonder will he be installing it in his free school........

 

[ViolentPanda]

no, it folded. there weren't any staff. assuming you mean `the modern review.` burchill and him fell out.

My memory must be faulty. I was sure it ran for 2 or 3 issues after Young was deposed, and that it wasn't just him and Burchill that fell out, but rather him and anyone who had any talent.

 

[nino_savatte]

The West London Free School: getting hammered on the taxpayers' money.

As the loathsome Toby Young continues in position as CEO of the West London Free School (WLFS), more information arrives on Zelo Street regarding events that led to the sudden departure of former head teacher Sam Naismith. It makes awful reading, showing that the misuse of taxpayers’ money was worse than previously revealed, and casts doubt on Tobes’ suitability as a manager.
http://zelo-street.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/wlfs-seedy-reality.html

 

[ibilly99]

hmm quite a diverse staff for a London urban state funded school...also none of these new fangled ms's for the unmarried ladies..

http://www.westlondonfreeschool.co.uk/staff.html

 

[nino_savatte]

Just like their board of governors.
http://www.westlondonfreeschool.co.uk/governors.html

 

[ibilly99]

Not even a token nod to diversity - a white middle class school for white middle class people - very East Dulwich.

And no skinheads a no2 is as extreme as you can get - and keep those buttons - buttoned up.

http://www.westlondonfreeschool.co.uk/userfiles/Uniform and Appearance Policy 2012(1).pdf

 

[treelover]

He's hardly going to do so, is he, especially if he personally had anything to do with it (and given his ongoing penchant for using the school as a backdrop to self-publicising, I strongly suspect that Cueball's "hands-on" proprietorial manner is involved).

Has Young had success with any of his activities?

except perhaps for his book about his failures.

 

[treelover]

The editor of the article needs pushing over a cliff - 'in vein' indeed.

Shame to see Arabella Weir boosting Young

 

[treelover]

http://www.asbestosthetruth.com/new...-host-for-asbestos-the-truth-2014-conference/
Wonder will he be installing it in his free school........

can't wok out what that site is all about, though notice most of the speakers are hard right tories.

and since when were Young and Philip Blond experts on asbestos or even risk.

now Frank Furedi...

 

[ViolentPanda]

Has Young had success with any of his activities?

except perhaps for his book about his failures.

depends what you mean by success, doesn't it?
Self-promotion-wise, he's been very successful. In business terms, though, he's failed utterly.

 

[agricola]

The words "inspirational" and "Toby Young" don't belong in the same sentence.

Au contraire:

"A traction engine driver was today described as "inspirational", after accidentally running over noted columnist and educator Toby Young".

 

[ViolentPanda]

Au contraire:

"A traction engine driver was today described as "inspirational", after accidentally running over noted columnist and educator Toby Young".

That's a headline I'd pay good cash money to see!