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January 03, 2009
A loss for words
If our civilization is to survive, conservatives must begin their own long march through the institutions. It may take twenty or thirty years to matter much, but imagine twenty or thirty more years of this and then imagine what - if anything - will be left.
Today, this is England.
A new £4.7m primary school in Sheffield is facing criticism for dropping the word "school" from its title after governors decided the term had "negative connotations".
The headteacher of Sheffield's Watercliffe Meadow, Linda Kingdon, said the south Yorkshire school, which is due to open on Monday, will instead be called a "place for learning".
"We decided from an early stage we didn't want to use the word 'school'," she told local newspaper the Sheffield Star. "This is Watercliffe Meadow, a place for learning. One reason was many of the parents of the children here had very negative connotations of school.
The headteacher of Sheffield's Watercliffe Meadow, Linda Kingdon, said the south Yorkshire school, which is due to open on Monday, will instead be called a "place for learning".
"We decided from an early stage we didn't want to use the word 'school'," she told local newspaper the Sheffield Star. "This is Watercliffe Meadow, a place for learning. One reason was many of the parents of the children here had very negative connotations of school.
The jihadis had better get a move on. At this rate, there will be not much left of Byzantium to plunder.
Interconnected like Gaia: Glastonbury residents afraid of WiFi, counter with orgone generators.
They live in a country of near-universal literacy. They have been provided with more opportunity for education than the majority of people alive today and the vast majority of people who have ever lived. The internet gives them access to more information than has been or ever will be stored in libraries. And still: dumber than a box of rocks.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at January 3, 2009 08:44 AM
