Wat.

As usual misinformation from the Daily Mail. The school was not downgraded. It was actually upgraded from its last report.

Nor was it told it was 'too white'. Rather, it was told it  should create opportunities for the white British kids to interact with kids from other backgrounds.

The head was on Radio 5 and was very unhappy with the misreporting. She said  she had been misquoted and that the story had been misrepresented by the local paper (which the Fleet street rag with an another agenda then  exploited so that i -gents could get excited about something other than the rise of their trousers.)

Last edited by Sammy Ambrose (2014-11-20 14:27:38)

The university comment was a joke, Sambrose. 

Sort of like your repeated joke about us talking about clothes on a clothing forum.  I actually laughed the second time.

Last edited by Sammy Ambrose (2014-11-20 20:54:09)

I thought the function of a university was to sell as many places, and the accompanying bits of paper, as possible? 

Or have we got in wrong in Australia?

I remember reading somewhere, and I may get the ages wrong here:

-up to the age of 8 your parents are the most influential force in your life
-9 to 14 your teachers have most sway over your social development
-14 onwards you get most of your ideas and attitudes from your peer group and the associated media

If schools are implanting the idea in young people that everyone should be open to other cultures and treat people from those cultures as they would wish to be treated themselves, well who could argue with that? It's when there are darker forces at work that the problems start.

Woof is probably right. Yuca is surely wrong. Brooks shirts I've had made post 19th century have been fair to middling.

But back to Ofsted: Why don't teachers simply tell these so-called experts, who probably wouldn't last 5 minutes in  a real classroom doing it day in day out, to sod off!

Last edited by Sammy Ambrose (2014-11-21 05:01:22)