I’m a former civil servant who retired after 34 years behind a biro. In the 1980s and early 1990s the Dept of Education (where I never worked) was regarded as a staid outfit rumoured to be controlled by the Knights of Columbanus.
Now the Department seems dominated by woke ideas and the outlook of South Dublin Fine Gael trendies. Their ideal school is the lefty Educate Together model.
50 years ago Marxist and Trot academics began to infiltrate the management and staff levels of US teacher training colleges and from there teachers’ unions and policy quangos. Thomas Sowell has written about how this process has resulted in the rapid destruction of the US public school system.
I suspect the same thing is happening here. Home schooling or networks of schools run by teachers like Katharine Birbalsingh are the only hope.
As you probably know, the UK politicians and teaching 'unions' (aka activist farces) are dead-set against the freedom to teach at home by insisting each setting should be inspected exactly the same way as a school. This is intentionally done to block home schooling.
I think the tide of 'news' which is amped to make the public feel this way or that way is mostly done for a very, very dark agenda. In reality many economies in the West are burning, and those that are not are about to do so.
This is the time to deal with big things.
Meanwhile international UniParty types want to wander off into minor issue 'debates' because they can't or won't face up to their job.
Mr Trump is a deeply flawed man, but we do see glimpses of him doing the unthinkable. He is at least in part facing up to his job, on behalf of his country. Uniparty needs to do the same.
Time to re-adjust the liberal (with a small 'L') outlook.
I’m a former civil servant who retired after 34 years behind a biro. In the 1980s and early 1990s the Dept of Education (where I never worked) was regarded as a staid outfit rumoured to be controlled by the Knights of Columbanus.
Now the Department seems dominated by woke ideas and the outlook of South Dublin Fine Gael trendies. Their ideal school is the lefty Educate Together model.
50 years ago Marxist and Trot academics began to infiltrate the management and staff levels of US teacher training colleges and from there teachers’ unions and policy quangos. Thomas Sowell has written about how this process has resulted in the rapid destruction of the US public school system.
I suspect the same thing is happening here. Home schooling or networks of schools run by teachers like Katharine Birbalsingh are the only hope.
As you probably know, the UK politicians and teaching 'unions' (aka activist farces) are dead-set against the freedom to teach at home by insisting each setting should be inspected exactly the same way as a school. This is intentionally done to block home schooling.
Housewives aren’t working and thus not contributing to GDP! How dare they!
Why do you want to have kids anyway when we can just import infinity Bomalians?
Every few years the government will commission a survey or report asking “what do women want”.
Invariably the answer comes back “to be able to spend more time with my children”.
The government then goes off and a few months later unveils a new policy on “how to get more women into the workplace”.
As I commented in the Free Press yesterday, a society is only as civilized as the worst behavior it tolerates.
Absolutely. Excellent piece.
Great comments at Gript on your articles, Laura.
Say her name IRYNA ZARUTSKA.
I think the tide of 'news' which is amped to make the public feel this way or that way is mostly done for a very, very dark agenda. In reality many economies in the West are burning, and those that are not are about to do so.
This is the time to deal with big things.
Meanwhile international UniParty types want to wander off into minor issue 'debates' because they can't or won't face up to their job.
Mr Trump is a deeply flawed man, but we do see glimpses of him doing the unthinkable. He is at least in part facing up to his job, on behalf of his country. Uniparty needs to do the same.
Time to re-adjust the liberal (with a small 'L') outlook.