tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post5264404665150649792..comments2024-02-13T10:20:04.888+00:00Comments on David Hepworth's blog: Politics is a dialogue of the deafDavid Hepworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973053694541321308noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-37096376029345184142011-10-15T17:20:42.587+01:002011-10-15T17:20:42.587+01:00Random outpourings I can tolerate. Question Time I...Random outpourings I can tolerate. Question Time I can't, especially when they chuck the guest on from the non-political world. I still await the edition with Vinnie Jones as that guest.Gaghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15031253527464010596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-48166964537693180902011-10-14T21:44:30.072+01:002011-10-14T21:44:30.072+01:00Above should read:
Plumber: "I see Michael G...Above should read:<br /><br />Plumber: "I see Michael Gove is going to make it OK for them to hit pupils. About bloody time."Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03345758492182779923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-55481976837589412622011-10-14T21:42:34.046+01:002011-10-14T21:42:34.046+01:00Interesting role reversal. Round our way it's ...Interesting role reversal. Round our way it's more likely the conversation would have gone something like:<br /><br />Plumber: "I see Michael Gove is going to make it OK for them to hit pupils"<br /><br />Me: awkward silence<br /><br />By the way, a teacher (who works at one of the more 'challenging' schools in the area) friend of ours reported that a parent was offended at one of the teachers asking a child to look at her when she was talking to her. Offended so much, in fact, that a vow was made to 'beat an apology out of her'.<br /><br />It's gone beyond the debate about whether to reintroduce an element of corporal punishment or not*. It's the parents that are the real problem.<br /><br />*As someone who grew up in Scotland in the 70s, my feeling would be no. Too many of the teachers who administered 'the strap' clearly took too much perverse pleasure in the act for me to support the return of such weirdness in the 21st century.Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03345758492182779923noreply@blogger.com