D W Fisher

Heard about this article and book today.
Can't comment on the book but the article makes more sense.

Have a butchers.

I am guilty of forgetting a key fundamental of life and it bugs the hell out of me to now realise it.

Yesterday I commented on an article about how the sponsors of the Barrow Academy will ensure it is the best in Britain and how the 'none-believers' will be looking very silly in a years time.

Here is the comment...

Consultations have begun in my fair town regarding the implementation of the Academy proposals. They have put out a brochure full of idealistic dreams, visions, community and not once does it mention children, pupils or schools.

Pupils have become students, schools have become 21st century learning environments!

Mr Ed Balls is the current government mouthpiece for education and day after day he spouts out enough verbal garbage about knee jerk ideas to solve non-existent problems that just goes to show that Browns government like Blair's hasn't the slightest comprehension of what joined up thinking can achieve.

We live in a world where the powers that be worry more about a possible offence to some other group of people, some nation state, someone of some religious persuasion, someone with a different colour skin to someone else in fact someone who may be offended by someone else.

Absolutely ludicrous but that is the sad reality in 'modern' Britain

Well there you go. The committed Cumbrian educationalists and their sponsors from the Cumbrian business world  have failed the children in their care at the Richard Rose Academy so badly it is incredible they are all still there except for their whipping boys of a chief executive and headteacher who may have been sacked, or may have quit or may have been given a golden handshake, who can say because the sponsors aren't.

My old town is being enhanced & developed by not one but two government quango's. I fail to see what Barrow has done to warrant such attention from these totally ineffective bodies but there it is.

We have the oldest quango called West Lakes Renaissance still ploughing on with it's ideas. This quango was supposed to be absorbed into the much newer & further reaching Cumbria Vision. Quite why it wasn't isn't exactly clear but Barrow ended up with in double trouble.

My town is in the throes of having a Blair Academy thrust upon it in spite of the near total lac of evidence that an Academy is warranted or that the Blair schools actually give children a better education than existing school systems.
The process is well advanced and the key part of any Academy is the appointment of sponsors.

In this day & age when we have to have a transparent selection process in any public or indeed private appointment except when it comes to sponsors for an Academy.

I live in a world of odd behaviour and strange goings on. For the most part it is either interesting or completely benign however on occasion figures enter this world as if from nowhere and then proceed to have a most unhealthy influence on it until their usually rapid disappearance from the scene.

 

Our barking mad, & I really mean mad as in cannot make a sound decision ever, County Council is moving heaven & earth to saddle my little bit of England with an unnecessary, unwanted, expensive & unproven new school that His Tonyness promoted as a way of solving the failing school education crisis in inner cities.