Darling Wifey’s new car arrived this week:
I was pretty cynical about the whole Audi thing – after all, an Audi is just a Skoda with a pretty frock on. Or so I thought before I was asked to programme the on-board computer to de-ice & pre-heat the car ten minutes before Darling Wifey leaves for work every morning so the temperature is just right when she climbs in…
What I don’t understand is just where I went wrong and ended up missing out on all this luxury?
The Education and Skills Bill had its Third Reading last week – and a Lib Dem amendment was accepted by the Government: schools must, "seek and take account of pupils’ views on policies on the delivery of the curriculum, behaviour, the uniform, school food, health and safety, equalities and sustainability " according to Children’s Minister Baroness Morgan.
When 150,000 school children were asked by Ofsted last year how much they felt that their views were taken into account when decisions were made, 34% replied "not much" or "not at all." So, in response, legislation will be submitted for Royal Assent "within the current Parliamentary Session" to ensure that children are consulted.
Meanwhile, senior teaching staff and LEA officials have a perfect right to ride roughshod over the views of the rest of the education professionals in their schools – better still, they are provided with professional training in "overcoming resistance to change" and "managing dissent in the staffroom" as part of the NPQH.
It’s nice to know that the Government values the skills, abilities and opinions of junior teachers so highly.
Several local councils in the UK want to stop people from using Latin idioms (I’m allowed to say ‘idiom’ because it’s Greek) because, and I quote, “some people might not understand it”
Let’s just remind ourselves of the clear English that local councils would prefer us to use:
