The Curmudgeon

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Monday, May 05, 2008

Won't Somebody Perspectivise the Children?

The Minister for Tiny Human Resources, Beverley Hughes, has been listening and leading with members of the National Association of Head Teachers at their annual conference. The head teachers raised objections to league tables and to the Government's practice of putting children through exams at the age of seven. "Look, the views and opinions of teachers and headteachers are very important," Hughes triangulated; "but it's not the only perspective that's important, there's also the perspective of parents"; not to mention the perspective of political commissars, whose qualifications in the matter of looking after children occasionally rival those of our revered progenitors. Most parents enter their enviable state through a judicious combination of accident (meeting some chump), fraud (posing as somebody worth having sex with), bribery (gifts and prospects) and myopia (babies are cute, children are sweet, adolescents are reasonable, and one's offspring are one's new young selves on the road to earthly immortality). The career of many a political commissar has followed an eerily similar route, often involving nearly as much excrement and even more noise.

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