Tuesday [15, which is close of play]

Every word Now and Next writes here on this topic:

https://rolfnorfolk.substack.com/p/book-burning-in-postwar-britain

… is spot on and it’s not just the teachers of course but the heads, school boards and naturally … the monsters above them, feeding down the poison.

Attached to this is the curriculum branch. I know all of them, at each level, I’ve worked for them, with them, accepted the shekels, up to the point I saw it really start to change.  The first change during my time was the coming of open plan classrooms and research changes (see the posts on dumbing down even on this blog). This was right across the west, including here and downunder, from about 1971 through to maybe 1975.

The next major change was the National Curriculum and I can only report on that in the sense that we in independent schools wanted to know for how long they’d lay off with their Wokery. In one particular case, a demonstration lesson I gave to a class was assessed as an A (from B, C, D, U).  There were visiting teachers.

I taught the same lesson five years or so later with an Ofsted inspector present and he wrote it up as antediluvian. That’s when I knew education was in trouble.  The things coming out of that little man’s mouth were drivel, our own results compared to the local area spoke enough. Our parents liked what we did, so we kept doing it, at least for two more years until the state inserted itself.

Some years later, in Russia, I was asked to demonstrate Oxford and Pearson texts to schools and so I studied them.  Total bilge, the grammar teaching wrong in many places.  I’ve already mentioned that one reading comp exercise was about Soros in a supportive, loveable rogue light.  I slipped away from that type of work as there were requests from banks and other voice-over work, TV and radio, and as they were commercial banks selling their wares … why not? Strangely, it was far cleaner work, more honest.

I looked through a few Soviet era English grammar texts, hardback, and though the propaganda side was pretty bad, the grammar was spot on, far more trad, far better than Oxford was putting out at exorbitant prices.  When I got back here, I looked through my mate’s son’s GCSE history book … it was trash … Woke propaganda every few lines. Appalled.

So yes, the teachers are teaching destructive Woke trash, mindless little twerps under forty years old, brainwashed, but the hard truth is … somebody appointed them.  Same in every field, not just education.

http://archive-random-nour-obscur.blogspot.com/2006/10/appendix-g.html

http://archive-random-nour-obscur.blogspot.com/2006/10/appendix-h.html