Slow to Learn

Teachers, like nurses, are an uppity lot. It will be remembered that certain medical staff took their applause during the pandemic as some sort of indication that their working conditions should be improved; now an educational resource has taken her pre-pandemic winning of a National Teaching Award as a licence to re-write history and undermine our island story of stout white chaps doing jolly decent things. She even goes so far as to demand, of all things, time and resources for the purpose of embedding such un-Britishness in the national curriculum, apparently by displacing Mr Churchill and Sir Francis Drake in favour of various obscure figures who didn't know their place. And all this despite her own status as a female from non-British stock who idles away her time in a profession that is not only not considered important but is held in clear and frequently displayed contempt; and who nevertheless has not yet been deported.