At a time when so many families are finding it hard to make ends meet, it would be comforting to say the least to know that although things have been bad recently there is actually light at the end of the tunnel, but alas that light is just some new government quango official with a torch bringing the good hard working people of this Country more completely irrelevant by-law to adhere to, or face imprisonment or a day in the stocks at the very least.
You see, far from taking such ridiculous burdens away from the great and the good in this Country as promised, Messrs (double entendre intended) Cameron and oh, now who is that other guy?... have trebled the amount of crazy rules and regulations we have to abide by, hence the cries from every corner of this poor land 'you are out of touch'. Now of course, that message will never reach the Governments ears because it is deemed to be just a press bite that doesn't warrant a reply, but hang on.. is it?.
Cameron and ...errr I will remember him in a moment (which is more than history will) would do well to listen to the gentle folk of this Country for a change instead of some other pompous twit brought up through the ranks and given a job to advise them on how to become more popular with the electorate.
I run a business that is always in direct contact with the general public, they seem to all be singing from the very same hymn sheet lately, yes they are fed up and yes they think this government has lost it's way but the difference is not only are the complaints becoming louder but also on the same subjects, namely immigration, health and teaching.
The worst mistake any party in power can make is not to listen to its own people. Gordon Brown, Margaret Thatcher, Harold Wilson, Ted Heath are all proven and fallen testaments to this fact, the only exception is Tony Blair who didn't listen just long enough to hand the reigns over to the afore mentioned lamentable Mr Brown.. I tell you if you are ever in a big battle, stand directly behind Tony Blair.. you would never get hit, Teflon Tony knows a few moves !.
If you want an example of complete and utter meddling by this so-called government of the people take a quick look at the teaching profession. In my opinion the whole school industry is about to implode. You may think that I am being a little dramatic but allow me some latitude your Worship.
Teachers are being hunted down at the moment, they are public enemy No.1 to the government, they are the reason our society is broken and they must all be brought to book for the downward spiral of our spirituality and morals for the past 20 years. That is the story according to Westminster. The facts unsurprisingly are all too glaringly different. The real problem in our classes is that consecutively weak governments have allowed the pupil to become king over a land that it has no jurisdiction or experience to rule. Teachers are on the run, if not from the very pupils they are trying to educate then the very bosses they serve through more and more ridiculous over-regulation. Time and again OFSTED (herein known as the 4th Reich as they cannot be argued with..AT ALL...EVER) change the goal posts for teachers who have but one aim when they come in to the profession and that is to teach...the silly naive so and so's aren't they?.
Nanny govt knows better. Nanny govt has lots of little troopers all around the Country that know better and they MUST be listened to or sacking and floggings at dawn are the expected norm. OFSTED have every teacher in the Country worried for their job even if they are performing outstandingly, due to the uneducated idealistic sanitised view of schools emanating from Westminster, while in reality Parliament cant even get it's OWN house in order. Pot, kettle, black, anyone?.
I am 47. I was raised with a healthy respect for my teacher's, I didn't always like them but I had respect and that came from a sense of right and wrong instilled in me at an early age. When I was at school we had winners and losers, we had play bars that hurt if you fell off them, we had rules that meant you got a smacked arse if you broke them, we never sat a single govt test until the 11 plus, if you studied and did well you went to the Grammar school if not you went to the Secondary. It was life and there my friends is the key to why school's are failing. It's not that our poor teachers are all second rate and need constant badgering and draconian legislation to help them do their jobs, it's not because kids are naughtier (although allowed to play the system even a politician should be bright enough to see they will do so) it's because successive government meddling and poor upper management followed by a transition of rights to the pupils (the very people we are actually trying to help to learn about life) ,have been allowed to call the shots. Mother Nature would never let the Lion be hunted by the Gazelle. That is not real life and neither is the current school's curriculum.. I am afraid our kid's are not being taught real life and it's all down to Mother Westminster.
I don't like to beat about the bush most of the time but I always think if you argue a case then it should have 2 things, number one is it should have a point and number two is it should come from someone who has at least had a glimpse of what they are dealing with so they can actually talk with some merit, well I have both as I am a Governor at our local Primary and I see first hand what the incompetent meddling and constant pressure of losing your job is doing to our poor bloody teachers who are trying in reality to knit fog with two tennis rackets. It's a damn scandal and it is reminiscent of a dictatorial society of Orwellian proportions.
OFSTED's little Hitlers sat in their bunkers and their masters the political parties need to realise something that all good Generals have recognised in every battle ever fought throughout the generations, you MUST keep morale. If you lose morale then you lose the battle and that my friends and countrymen and women is exactly where we are at the moment. Teachers have little or no morale, they are brow-beaten by legislation that is ill thought out and idealistic administered by an untouchable, unquestionable unapproachable force that is not fit for purpose and the whole rotten lot of it needs pulling apart to the bare bones and starting again.
But don't listen to me, after all I am just a single voice in a cast of millions, luckily for OFSTED and the government, unluckily for my beautiful Country and those wonderful people who dare to try and teach our much maligned and mostly misunderstood youth.
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You see, far from taking such ridiculous burdens away from the great and the good in this Country as promised, Messrs (double entendre intended) Cameron and oh, now who is that other guy?... have trebled the amount of crazy rules and regulations we have to abide by, hence the cries from every corner of this poor land 'you are out of touch'. Now of course, that message will never reach the Governments ears because it is deemed to be just a press bite that doesn't warrant a reply, but hang on.. is it?.
Cameron and ...errr I will remember him in a moment (which is more than history will) would do well to listen to the gentle folk of this Country for a change instead of some other pompous twit brought up through the ranks and given a job to advise them on how to become more popular with the electorate.
I run a business that is always in direct contact with the general public, they seem to all be singing from the very same hymn sheet lately, yes they are fed up and yes they think this government has lost it's way but the difference is not only are the complaints becoming louder but also on the same subjects, namely immigration, health and teaching.
The worst mistake any party in power can make is not to listen to its own people. Gordon Brown, Margaret Thatcher, Harold Wilson, Ted Heath are all proven and fallen testaments to this fact, the only exception is Tony Blair who didn't listen just long enough to hand the reigns over to the afore mentioned lamentable Mr Brown.. I tell you if you are ever in a big battle, stand directly behind Tony Blair.. you would never get hit, Teflon Tony knows a few moves !.
If you want an example of complete and utter meddling by this so-called government of the people take a quick look at the teaching profession. In my opinion the whole school industry is about to implode. You may think that I am being a little dramatic but allow me some latitude your Worship.
Teachers are being hunted down at the moment, they are public enemy No.1 to the government, they are the reason our society is broken and they must all be brought to book for the downward spiral of our spirituality and morals for the past 20 years. That is the story according to Westminster. The facts unsurprisingly are all too glaringly different. The real problem in our classes is that consecutively weak governments have allowed the pupil to become king over a land that it has no jurisdiction or experience to rule. Teachers are on the run, if not from the very pupils they are trying to educate then the very bosses they serve through more and more ridiculous over-regulation. Time and again OFSTED (herein known as the 4th Reich as they cannot be argued with..AT ALL...EVER) change the goal posts for teachers who have but one aim when they come in to the profession and that is to teach...the silly naive so and so's aren't they?.
Nanny govt knows better. Nanny govt has lots of little troopers all around the Country that know better and they MUST be listened to or sacking and floggings at dawn are the expected norm. OFSTED have every teacher in the Country worried for their job even if they are performing outstandingly, due to the uneducated idealistic sanitised view of schools emanating from Westminster, while in reality Parliament cant even get it's OWN house in order. Pot, kettle, black, anyone?.
I am 47. I was raised with a healthy respect for my teacher's, I didn't always like them but I had respect and that came from a sense of right and wrong instilled in me at an early age. When I was at school we had winners and losers, we had play bars that hurt if you fell off them, we had rules that meant you got a smacked arse if you broke them, we never sat a single govt test until the 11 plus, if you studied and did well you went to the Grammar school if not you went to the Secondary. It was life and there my friends is the key to why school's are failing. It's not that our poor teachers are all second rate and need constant badgering and draconian legislation to help them do their jobs, it's not because kids are naughtier (although allowed to play the system even a politician should be bright enough to see they will do so) it's because successive government meddling and poor upper management followed by a transition of rights to the pupils (the very people we are actually trying to help to learn about life) ,have been allowed to call the shots. Mother Nature would never let the Lion be hunted by the Gazelle. That is not real life and neither is the current school's curriculum.. I am afraid our kid's are not being taught real life and it's all down to Mother Westminster.
I don't like to beat about the bush most of the time but I always think if you argue a case then it should have 2 things, number one is it should have a point and number two is it should come from someone who has at least had a glimpse of what they are dealing with so they can actually talk with some merit, well I have both as I am a Governor at our local Primary and I see first hand what the incompetent meddling and constant pressure of losing your job is doing to our poor bloody teachers who are trying in reality to knit fog with two tennis rackets. It's a damn scandal and it is reminiscent of a dictatorial society of Orwellian proportions.
OFSTED's little Hitlers sat in their bunkers and their masters the political parties need to realise something that all good Generals have recognised in every battle ever fought throughout the generations, you MUST keep morale. If you lose morale then you lose the battle and that my friends and countrymen and women is exactly where we are at the moment. Teachers have little or no morale, they are brow-beaten by legislation that is ill thought out and idealistic administered by an untouchable, unquestionable unapproachable force that is not fit for purpose and the whole rotten lot of it needs pulling apart to the bare bones and starting again.
But don't listen to me, after all I am just a single voice in a cast of millions, luckily for OFSTED and the government, unluckily for my beautiful Country and those wonderful people who dare to try and teach our much maligned and mostly misunderstood youth.
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