Sunday, January 30, 2011

The Blame Game

The school that suspended teacher Katharine Birbalsingh after she spoke at the Tory conference, is to be closed down due to a drop in applications. Naturally they've responded to this news by reflecting on whether their behaviour towards critics and inept management contributed to this decision blaming Birbalsingh for her speech:
Canon Peter Clark, the chairman of the school’s governors, said that her attack on incapable teachers “blinded by Leftist ideology” had dealt a fatal blow to the school. “The publicity that she generated was very unhelpful, which certainly didn’t help in terms of pupil recruitment,” said Canon Clark.
He added that an inspection of the school held shortly before Christmas had shown that “nothing that she said was right”. 
 Yes, clearly her references to them being "blinded by Leftist ideology" were way off the mark and the school only suspended her because she brought the schools name into a political debate, unlike the head teacher who had previously let her school be used as the venue for the launch of Labour's 2001 General Election campaign.

10 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

"by by"?

Furor Teutonicus said...

XX He added that an inspection of the school held shortly before Christmas had shown that “nothing that she said was right”. XX

So, "Party membership" is one of the questions they ask is it?

Furor Teutonicus said...

Follow ups.

Ross said...

MW- "by by"- Why, where are you going? No well spotted, and now corrected.

FT- Yep.

James Higham said...

Nailed it on the head, Ross.

Furor Teutonicus said...

Ross. Seriously?(!)

Ross said...

FT- No not seriously, I was agreeing with the sentiment. I should have expressed that better.

Matthew said...

Her Telegraph 'blog is appalling though. It's very hard to believe some of the things she says happened actually did.

Ross said...

I don't actually find her blog that interesting to be honest so I can't say whether it rings true or not.

JuliaM said...

"Her Telegraph 'blog is appalling though. It's very hard to believe some of the things she says happened actually did."

I wish that were true...