Aynone still harbouring fond dreams that things might change under Brown will have been finally disillusioned by this 'initiative', launched yesterday to the accompaniment of a stiffly besuited Brown attempting a tennis serve. There are things that can be usefully done in schools - notably achieving functional literacy and numeracy, maybe even learning stuff - but five hours of sport a week! This is a classically otiose Blairite stunt - the only difference being that he'd have worn casual sportswear to launch it, and probably kicked a football.
Needless to say, things were different in my schooldays.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
There should be a discarded Players No6 pack in that pic.
ReplyDeleteschool-enforced sport isn't that bad. i used to forge sick notes every week, and got to spend 1.5 hours of 'Games' and 45 minutes of 'Physical Exercise' in the library, reading Fantasy books and daydreaming about the girls in the Sixth Form. More of this, please, Mr Brown.
ReplyDeleteThe proudest achievement of my school years was managing to miss an entire term of PE, preferring for obvious reasons to hang around in the nearest caff smoking and talking over matters of great moment (track-by-track analysis of Blonde On Blonde, that kind of thing). My end-of-term report bore the acute comment 'No detectable effort'.
ReplyDelete"no detectable effort" - sounds like wu-wei to me, you should have started a Taoist cult. God, what a load of crap school is.
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