Brainwashing guidelines

The Government has offered to rewrite the guidance sent to schools with Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth DVD, in order to head off an expected court ruling that the film is politically biased and/or scientifically suspect. It's interesting that they think that this will do the trick for them. They may even be correct. But if the film is genuinely biased or is based on incorrect science, it's surely going to take a bit of explaining as to why it is so vital that every secondary school child in the country sees it.

"This is a pack of lies and propaganda. But it's imperative that you study it carefully".

State education. Gotta love it. 

Comments

[Kit]

Last night, my five year old ask me "Why don't we recycle?". Sigh, it's recycling awareness week at school...

[Bishop Hill]

Count yourself lucky. At my children's school, every week is recycling awareness week. I mean that in all seriousness. Even the politically unaware are saying that it's brainwashing.

I've just become a governor, so it will be interesting to see if we can do anything about it.

[Kit]

There's more! Just discovered that kids are being given the title "Light Monitor". Light Monitors are tasked with switching off lights in empty classrooms.

[Bishop Hill]

Got compost monitors yet?

Actually there is quite a good wheeze here. If you find you have too much rubbish to fit in your bin (lids have to be fully closed round here otherwise they won't collect them) then just take the excess to school. I got rid of a whole lot of massive cardboard boxes the other day. I don't think the staff were amused, but they could hardly complain having spent the previous two years extolling the virtues of composting.

[Sedge]

My neighbours went off on a two week holiday with their six kids to find on return that their brainwashed 13 year old daughter had kindly thought of switching off all the plugs. So bang went a large chest freezer of food.