Can’t I just get plastered like everyone else and dance very badly to Fats Domino? It’s a bad faith question, anyway. He’s really worried that a comprehensive is not like his old public school. That appears to be the ideal these days. “Probably better!” I don’t say.
I nearly apologise – yet again. Why? Why do I accommodate such condescension? Why am I such a weed before any Big Wig with a beard or robe or gown – or Sir Ofsted Tofsted, when he finds us “unsatis”? Well, no more. I’ve reached the tipping point. Two people pushed me over.
One – the Gove, when he accused comprehensive teachers of “the soft bigotry of low expectation”. Grrrr! I bet he was pleased with that one. The soft bigotry of sophistry. Cant. How low can you go? And then he attacked “egalitarianism”. More cant.
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