tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19797043275653061702024-03-19T04:05:11.530+00:00Seneca CaledoniaConsidering Scottish schools and the various topics that spin off from it. Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-76838093649115213132023-01-07T00:44:00.005+00:002023-01-27T10:16:28.769+00:00Mamma Mi...ar...rrghhh!: Another Multicultural Success <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 255, 255); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Segoe UI", "sans-serif"" style="background: whitesmoke; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">UNDERGÅNG: </span><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">PENULTIMATE SCENE</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 255, 255); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">The new year welcomes returning pupils with some uplifting news in the fight
against White racism: we learn that in the Swedish city of Malmö (aka, Norra
Mogadishu) ⅔ of all school pupils are from a non-Swedish (and mostly
non-European) background. To say the least, this augurs well for the
anti-racist future; can’t have racism if there are no Whites to cause it! – LOL.
In fact, the news is even probably better than this and we can hope that the
real figure is nearer ¾; this because, under Swedish law, by the third
generation the immigrant origin of, say, a gang rapist or hand grenade chucker<sup>1</sup>
is no longer recorded, which creates the implication of ordinary (i.e., White)
Swede. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 255, 255); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">(# Malmö @</span><span style="background: whitesmoke; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="background: whitesmoke; font-size: 12pt;">vit
inte längre</span><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt;">J</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 255, 255); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="background: white;">Fruktansvärt!</span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: inherit;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">an old stock Swede might exclaim. But this plaintive cry merely illustrates the rebarbative racist mindset of these high IQ, but feeble-minded, Viking relics and why they are deserving of their one-way fiery voyage to Helheim. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 255, 255); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">We
are also reassured that Malmö’s happy fate will soon enough be visited on all
Sweden and thusly will the country become the first in Europe to cure itself of
systemic racism. Indeed, already in anticipation of that day, discussion is
taking place for the new name for this suddenly swarthy nation; Svartistan, </span><span style="background: whitesmoke; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">Mörkistan, Nya
Afrika are all strong contenders, but it seems that the government imams (of
course, representing HRH, the emir Carl XVI Gustaf) will likely select
Swedistan as the name least likely to provoke machete waving, firebombings and
other assorted ethnic cleansings which the nysvensk (new Swedes) are somewhat
partial to (and this is a good thing, obviously).<sup>2</sup></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 255, 255); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">It’s
just a shame that the original, historic, pale blond Swedes won’t be around to
see their triumph over themselves, but that’s the price of progress and we will
posthumously salute their fortitude in looking into the racial abyss,
apologising for being White and then silently leaping, one by one, until there
are none. </span><i><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="background: whitesmoke; font-size: 12pt;">Skål! </span></i><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="background: whitesmoke; font-size: 12pt;">and<i> </i>and<i> </i></span><i><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Så synd, </span></i><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">but
you cannot preserve your nation with other people's babies<i>.</i></span><sup><span style="background: whitesmoke;">3</span></sup><span style="background: whitesmoke;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 255, 255); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: whitesmoke; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">This
is all very well, I sense you thinking, but what about us in Scotland? Should
we not, while congratulating the Swedes commitment to diversity, be
disappointed and not a little ashamed at our own education system lagging
behind? After all, combatting White supremacy in primary schools is (correctly)
our government’s main, and possibly only, educational priority. The answer is,
of course, yes and yes!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 255, 255); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 255, 255); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">However,
I am pleased to note that we need not hang our heads so deeply in shame for
much has been done to replace Whites wherever they raise their ghostly visages
and ginger heads, especially in our Catholic schools, as the following picture
makes clear. Many detect the influence of his holiness in this development as
he has a noted interest in multicultural youth replacement, but our own wee F.M
can stand proudly alongside any of the top WEF White replacement specialists.<sup>4</sup>
Because this is her doing; and this is why she is smiling so broadly – for once. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 255, 255); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 255, 255); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #111111;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWRrnHAg4FVpRgpu815zcVkDL4CkNdcQn5szW0_4X-FF2hZ7Alfnf8NVHJfCLGw9YD0RngwRkkvvzroUPS8lYcF9KklSbzlHrz4LmqF1ShxaVFjuqrnhjVSsDqfGHv0CoFOP2VYELdR_N2sN4JRt_NTf4h05D-ujLDcIR47OmlYaKDxk5Vz0_ekN4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="718" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWRrnHAg4FVpRgpu815zcVkDL4CkNdcQn5szW0_4X-FF2hZ7Alfnf8NVHJfCLGw9YD0RngwRkkvvzroUPS8lYcF9KklSbzlHrz4LmqF1ShxaVFjuqrnhjVSsDqfGHv0CoFOP2VYELdR_N2sN4JRt_NTf4h05D-ujLDcIR47OmlYaKDxk5Vz0_ekN4=w364-h214" width="364" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 255, 255); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">But there is more; I have found by drunken prophesies, libels
and dreams, that the F.M (or F.C, as she is more usually known) plans to import
the entire nation of either Bangladesh or Congo – hopefully, both – to eradicate
White racism, both these countries being noted specialists in such
eradications. This act of good (obviously) cultural terrorism would allow us in
Scotland to leapfrog the achievements of the Swedes in multicultural
excellence. The zero Whiteness would sit nicely alongside the zero carbon commitment.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 255, 255); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">Truly, a great time to be a Scottish school pupil swirling in
a (fe)maelstrom of historical lies, racial smears and gaslighting, and all the
while having a ringside seat in a real life re-enactment of the great racial
replacements of the late Roman Empire, or contemporary London. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">As a race, we never
evolved to deal with stuff like this and don’t know how to defend ourselves,
and even our children, against it. </span><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: #111111; font-size: 12pt;">We're
finished and all that's left now is the wait for the kraken. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">What think ye?</span><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 255, 255); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: #111111;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 255, 255); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: #111111;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 255, 255); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(242, 255, 255); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">NOTES</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Segoe UI", "sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 9pt;">1.
Sweden is now one of the leading countries in the world for recreational hand
grenade chucking – spears, apparently, not being so readily available. Indeed,
it is fast replacing nude sunbathing, scarfing rancid fish and folk dancing as
the major national pastimes. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Segoe UI", "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 9pt;">2. Strangely, as a self-proclaimed “Humanitarian Superpower",
formerly famous for crawing the moral virtue of their progressivism, the Swedes
have recently ceased pontificating to the rest of Europe the benefits of mass
migration from the third world. Perhaps they feel the argument has been won,
and anyway are too busy enjoying the multicultural boosts to their economy and
the extra societal harmony from the comfort of their safe spaces.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-top: 12pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">3. <span style="background: whitesmoke;">UNDERGÅNG. FINAL SCENE</span>:<i> </i></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Bjorn:<i> Thank you for the music. </i></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Agnetha: <i>But sorry for being White.</i></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-top: 12pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;">
</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">[they pause and then leap into the abyss] <i>Mamma Mi..ar…rghhh!</i></span><o:p></o:p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">4. Obviously, our Number 1 Nippy Sweetie is not in the same league as
the UN big hitters, your Merkels. Trudeaus, Polpots, Obamas, etc, but give her credit
where it is due; every subject in the primary curriculum has a trauma based anti-White
component. (Aye, even maths!)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-38334851584072888422022-10-15T00:53:00.002+00:002022-10-16T19:45:21.875+00:00CELEBRATING THE BLACKNESS<p> </p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Black History Month </span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“White
allies and POC accomplices are welcome to attend the conference, but will be
charged a supplementary £30 reparations fee that will be used to keep this
event free of cost for the Black community.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Black History Month is an annual anti-White festival in
which, instead of getting mugged by BLM or grifted as per above, Whitey gets
lambasted – for a whole month! Specifically focussing on our brief of the
primary school pupil in Scotland, here we find the young Whitey is encouraged
to take their first steps down White Genocide Lane when they learn just how
guilty they are for all the problems of their Black classmates<sup>1</sup> and
of how undeserving they are of a settled life – ever! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> They learn that they have achieved this purgatory as a
punishment most condign for the sin of racism. Of course, because they are
children, this racism is ancestral and so, like their pale faces, inherited; thusly,
it cannot be avoided or denied. And Black History Month makes sure of this by looped
reminders of the slave trade and how Whitey has stolen Black achievement. This
viewpoint is reinforced by the blackening of British history via its dramatic
representation on TV, of which Black (negro) Queen Anne Boleyn is the latest
manifestation. Of course, an adult knows that this is absurd, and may even
appreciate that the intention with such semiotics is not so much to rewrite
history or even brainwash (although that would be a hoped for outcome too), but
to humiliate by showing how much whitey does not control their country’s past; but
the child, whose understanding of the world is more visual, comes to accept the
lie and embrace, without knowing it, the true mission of Black History Month –
the planting of guilt on the one hand, and resentment on the other. A bad combination
for a happy multicultural future together you would correctly think – although truly
this broken future is actually the long-desired outcome by those <span style="background-color: black;"> </span> ethnic cosmopolitans
who on investigation always prove to underwrite every destructive trend against
us. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> The success of this gas-lighting project is proven by the
widespread acceptance by Whitey, and especially young Whitey teacher<sup>2</sup>,
of their visual replacement across all media<sup>3</sup>, by their promulgating
to children the racist <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">complaint de jour</i>
and their willingness to justify ‘exterminating whiteness’, etc, by which they
mean themselves. The evidence that such people will welcome the machetes for
you and your children (and even their own children if they had them) is legion
in the twittering world of social justice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Perhaps in another context (in another world?) where
being White was not toxic, one could regard Black History Month as a legitimate
attempt to boost the cultural confidence of the lowest achieving immigrant
group<sup>4</sup> (and thus a net good); but in the actual world such a project
is inevitably weaponised against us. They can pretend that it is pro-minority, pro-diversity,
anti-racist, etc, but (honestly) it’s only anti-White. For, make no mistake,
wrapped up in celebrating Black history is a blatant attack on our history to
erase any goodness or notable achievements and replace them with the lie of Black
achievement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> The masters of perpetual guilt, those soulless would-be
gods of all mankind, who stand behind this gas-lighting project know what they
are doing when they encourage and facilitate others to leave their dark
continent and come to the home of all their woes in Europe. They were certain that
by this means they could defeat us with our own values and humane sensibilities,
or perhaps more realistically our spineless tolerance of Black bullshit and Jewish
chutzpah; and perhaps they are right. For we are way past time for the
collective White West to come to its senses; there should be scores of millions
of us seeing this psy-op for what it is and what it is doing to our children. And
not just you and me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Before I leave, I should note that inadvertently Black History
Month, in acknowledging the crucial importance of race in all social systems,
may yet prove to be the smelling salts that brings clarity to the groggy White
parent swooning over their manufactured guilt.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> What think ye?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">P.S. When I'm banned follow me loyally at http://www.glenntelfer.me</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"">1. </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt;">Black is black. The other lesser blacks or POCs can GTF!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">2. And only Whitey, teacher or otherwise, as other POCs see
this for what it is.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">3. Especially including school material; websites, council educational
department literature, announcements, posters, brochures, lesson plans, textbooks,
etc, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">4. Of course, it is right and proper for Blacks (and
sympathetic others, including me) to find interest in Black history and
celebrate historical Black achievement. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
own top three are intrepid Atlantic voyaging, building Britain from scratch and
funky town jive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-25143844653769436412022-04-26T13:15:00.001+00:002022-04-29T14:49:35.720+00:00The Child Abuse Industrial Complex <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">MISGENDERING</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria, "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">includes
Miss gendering.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Cambria, "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Formerly,
this was a question of apology: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Oh, I do beg
your pardon. I thought that you were a fully-grown man. Oh, what’s that,…my
mistake again,…well, please accept extra apologies. It was the beard stubble
that fooled me.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: grey; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;">No problem, apology accepted.
Even my therapist gets mixed up sometimes!</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: grey; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: grey; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 128;"><br /></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">However,
these polite days are past and this issue is now a legal matter. Schools can
advise pupils on seeking legal remedy. Corridor posters provide information and
speed dial connections to pro rata sexual gender insult lawyers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Miss
gendering is the most severe category of misgendering and is an immediate
police matter. This will involve double-lawyering and double-lawyering fees. And
double jail time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">NOTE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I
noted some news items recently that demonstrated that within schools this gender
identification phenomenon has bypassed the ‘just seeking acceptance’ stage and,
now weaponised, is seeking destruction of opposition by social shaming and lawfare.
Only a short while ago this subject was a matter of, often light-hearted, bemusement
when discussed amongst friends. However, as we come to realise that this was
never about acceptance of the tragically confused*, but the vanguard of a
different agenda, few are laughing now. And the tragic victims are not just the
gender-afflicted pawns, but the good citizen and their family.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The child abuse
industrial complex is a real thing and it really is well-established in your
child’s school and educational department.</span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">What
think ye?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Open Sans","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">* </span><span style="font-family: "Open Sans","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">We are a sympathetic people and acceptance was nearly always a given.
The claims of rejection, or even outright hostility, are mainly propagandistic
fabrications to plant guilt within us and justify the dystopic legislation which
was ever the intent of those who stand behind this phenomenon. <o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-55273357348979411932022-04-04T19:31:00.003+00:002022-04-08T14:06:14.715+00:00THE WITNESS<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What a time to be a little boy in
nursery.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Days of Broken Arrows</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Toy guns, swordfights with sticks, chasing girls<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">are of the past – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Get over it!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Climbing walls, swinging on branches, throwing stones<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">all risky undertakings –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For safety’s sake, don’t!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Movies, legislation, TV news, the ‘educated’ <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">feed his destroyers and crush his spirit –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Enough, toxic masculinity!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Gender choice: <i>My trans son
wears make-up</i>. Endocrine warfare<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">You thought you were a boy –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">You were wrong!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Depression, lack of focus, withdrawal, delusion,
the life online; <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">the planned and fated boys’ future – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sterile, your kind gone. And good riddance!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Fist fights, militant enthusiasms, competitive,
impulsive, testosterone<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">You thought you were a boy –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">You are.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I’m your Witness!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I’ve just read a propaganda piece
about a school teacher and gaylife advocate for childhood sexualisation
claiming that nearly 2/3 of his students (his term) identify as LGBTQ+. Naturally,
this apparent fact was celebrated with a Pride parade. His students were in the
nursery, and so four and five years old. And obviously, from the viewpoint of
those who dream of such a future sexualised world, an ideal age for introducing
identity politics and gender dysphoria.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The children mentored (for want of a
better term) by this activist-sexducator obviously will have no idea that they
are involved in a battle for their minds – and their souls. However, they will
be damaged just the same by the deliberately introduced confusion, if not arguably attempted
removal, of an essential foundation of the developing personality; namely, that
you are a boy or girl. Both terms, we now learn, are hate terms in the new
school lexicon. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s hard enough being an infant; learning
to share Lego and getting the wrong juice at snacktime is a sufficient
developmental challenge without adding a daily existential crisis of sexual
identity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To ask the question about what sort of
world these childhood sex advocates want to create is to already know the
answer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This little poem is my response.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What think ye?<o:p></o:p></span></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-7275902721597758472022-03-11T14:49:00.000+00:002022-03-11T14:49:48.555+00:00EXCELLENCE HAS A DAY OFF<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">In which your anonymous author imagines the unimaginable – a wee break from the classroom stress and educational garbage that accompanies the Scottish national curriculum.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Excellence Has a Day Off</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>It starts
with the register,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">children’s
names being substituted<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">for picnic
items, fizzy drinks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">sandwich
fillings and continental cheeses.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">They are not
fazed by the switch.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">One maths
lesson taught with<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">no reference
to targets<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">children
apparently fail to notice <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">its absence
– perhaps they don’t care?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Those who
finish early are tricked by,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">not extra
work, but extra free choice!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Playtime
extended by ten minutes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Milk and
story time doubled.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Language
lesson, no trick this time,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">just a
promise; finish early and play.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Lunch over,
we go a walk in the woods<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">build a hut,
then race back, <i>Last’s a silly sausage …..
</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Next,
Shakespeare verses parsed<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">from say,
Romeo and Juliet,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Act out the
same, for a laugh.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>With love's light wings did
I o'er-perch these walls, <o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>for stony
limits cannot hold love out.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><br /></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Project
proceeds without children<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">debating their
own protocols, nor <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">stating Q I
outcomes, they know already!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Teacher just
teaches, flying the lesson <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">on
experience. Somehow it lands okay.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The day
passes with no reference<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">to the
conveyer belt of pedagogic<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">balderdash that
clichés our lessons.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">No fires, no
police, no children lost,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Excellence
ends the day with a Beaujolais. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">You know what, Boys and Girls, let’s do it again. But don’t
tell the head-teacher.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Talk about setting yourself up for a failure: The hubris of
Scotland’s national curriculum, The Curriculum for Excellence, begs for divine
correction. And, in a way, this is what has happened; with the educational
system discredited, the profession demoralised and the pupils stressed and
failed. The entire shekel plunder that is public education is deserving of
mockery. And here I do my bit.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have it on good authority that the sheer lack of
common modesty (and not least the hubristic challenge) of The Curriculum for
Excellence title was pointed out to the various government ministers,
educational ‘experts’ and tax farmers responsible for its introduction, but you
will not be surprised to know that these assorted imbeciles and dystopians followed their own
advice.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">PS. This poem is from my Relentless: The Death March to Educational Excellence. This genuinely excellent (honestly) book is a multi-media approach to the well-deserved mockery of our state schools. Here is a picture of the front cover. It is available if you click the Big Ride link at top right. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimF5nXeqpbEZ1okCVI-6CHLNu58Pc42weKwKTDmOY78zXUjHzUCN2pml5PihzeCeNRR8Mlx8ik3Ek8hC9kVBiUpo2kNFtHloLuBYN25VHz6iUyFcqMyDd9cqrm6uY5X2VKJTpDn_8XfpGGI7k8fMiGFDoro_FKBcSkuFHWUd6hZwxB-Kxrnt3NoFU=s2489" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2489" data-original-width="1510" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimF5nXeqpbEZ1okCVI-6CHLNu58Pc42weKwKTDmOY78zXUjHzUCN2pml5PihzeCeNRR8Mlx8ik3Ek8hC9kVBiUpo2kNFtHloLuBYN25VHz6iUyFcqMyDd9cqrm6uY5X2VKJTpDn_8XfpGGI7k8fMiGFDoro_FKBcSkuFHWUd6hZwxB-Kxrnt3NoFU=s320" width="194" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-80544171719891864682022-02-19T01:56:00.003+00:002022-02-21T10:35:51.218+00:00Viewing The Spectrum<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The Spectrum:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If only it
was an evil organisation, perhaps the Pupil Eco Committee could combat it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">However, and
alas, 'the spectrum' describes the new pupil reality that finds a significant
proportion of pupils credited to this shady group and apparently working for it
as professional-level class disrupters, a task at which most excel. Why so many
children, and especially boys, are arriving as basically psychiatric cases sporting
a veritable alphabet of autist-like descriptive labels, ADD, ADHD, ODD, etc, and in need of
various types of extra support (and funding), is a question that can be
discretely asked (noting that walls have ears in school!), but cannot be honestly
answered. Identifying the various environmental toxics, device radiation, late
motherhood, broken families, intentionally single parents, phoney pedagogy, classroom
stressors like BBC Newsround, the IT/TV existence and the whole panoply of a garbage
lifestyle lived indoors, would not be permitted. And, not least, metabolic
poisoning obtained by eating and drinking basically sugar. This is why I make
no reference to these factors here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(To those who
propose genetic collapse as a factor, I present, as a contribution to the
debate, the current batch of Scottish MPs.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Precisely
how many of these children are genuinely handicapped, as opposed to just some variety
of strange that would be fixable by the simple remedy of fresh air, sunlight,
exercise, proper food, sleep and discipline is a question that an old school
teacher could answer, but would be more safely left nowadays to top dollar
funded experts. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Of course, I
do not wish to deny children support they need, but still wonder how much the
diagnoses are linked to a feedback loop wherein artfully constructed (or
disingenuous) definitions access funding and encourage a swarming class of
professional beneficiaries allied to concerned, confused or (honestly) victimhood-seeking
parents, each driving the other to create more of the same and hence further
justify itself. The motivation and behaviour of any one actor (be they parent,
teacher or health professional) within this loop may be entirely rational, even
while the loop itself may be irrational– except if viewed as yet another
manifestation of the society-destroying processes which shape our modern lives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What think
ye?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">ADDENDUM<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
<p class="MsoNormal">This reflection was inspired by a recent article that
described the dramatic rise in autism diagnosed over the last generation as, in
fact, mainly a rise in its <i>reporting</i>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This allegedly based on two related phenomena; the social trend of
shifting spectrum children, who would have formerly attended a specialist
institution, into mainstream schools (aka, mainstreaming) with this development
making such children more visible and leading in turn to concomitant changes in
reporting protocols; and (as noted above) the politicisation and monetisation
of definitions and diagnoses. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">While I find myself <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in
broad agreement with part of the author’s thesis, my Spidey sense tells me that
she is more wrong than right; in that there is indeed a true rise in the
numbers of such children for at least some of the reasons already referred to.
The comments accompanying the article demonstrate how politicised (weaponised
even?) such science has become with the protagonists seemingly unable to
approach evidence free from partisan proselytising of their preferred societal
agenda. One cannot ‘trust the science’ here. And it is for this very reason
that I have abandoned to oblivion all such studies, where they pertain to
education, as sources of either information or policy; preferring instead the scientific
evidence of my own eyes and ears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regardless, no useful ‘expert’ conclusion will ever be
reached about this issue as autistic and related type pupils are among the many
passengers locked aboard the runaway train to hell.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(The focus of the article was the USA, but its descriptions probably
apply to anywhere in the West.)<o:p></o:p></p><br /></span><p></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-35218289251380482652022-01-16T14:30:00.001+00:002023-02-04T12:31:14.261+00:00THE GTCS: TEACHERS CHAINED TO A LUNATIC<h3 style="text-align: left;"><i> </i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Education system in shock as top teacher resigns from the GTCS</span></h3><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If one is a trained teacher and wishes
to work within the state education system, one is required to be registered with
the General Teaching Council of Scotland (GTCS). Depending on circumstances,
the annual fee is paid by the registrant themselves or their employer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Obviously, there should be regulation
of entry to the profession and some oversight of teacher development and
conduct; however, in common with most (all?) of our institutions charged with representing
and protecting us, they now do the opposite. The why, how and who of this
development is increasingly coming to the fore of our minds. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But what to do? Hence, my resignation:<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><b>With respect
to your query regarding my decision to not renew my annual GTCS subscription:</b><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>I am
responding to your request as a courtesy, but mainly for the sake of my
conscience and partly as a reassurance to others who may read this, that they
may know that they are not alone in their concerns.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>I note with
alarm the conversion of the GTCS from an administrative body usefully managing
the list of those deemed qualified to teach to a globalist front promoting
worthless science and destructive pedagogy. Through bureaucratic bloat, and
leadership devoid of wisdom and moral courage, it has become the conduit for
all the deceitful narratives and useless ideas that discharge into the
classroom, making the very stress and dysfunction it absurdly reports on. It is thusly a major contributor to the
creation of a school culture at odds with reality and hence dependent on propaganda
to carry its claims and policies. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I note with disappointment, but not surprise, that
the GTCS in its pronouncements and comments on educational topics has not
noticed any patterns behind the relentless fakery and Utopian deceptions. Apparently
sees no issue with the ever more intrusive digital solutions proffered by our
IT overlords. Nor noticed the countless millions spent on tomorrow’s
educational garbage, or that every fix further embeds the problem. </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Endless waste, meaningless clichés
and inevitable failure, all at top dollar, describes its Curriculum for
Excellence mission.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">No other generation of
teachers has had to endure the infiltration and subversion of their workplace
to the extent that ours has.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> And no other
generation of pupils has had to endure such psychological manipulation in the
deliberate politicisation and sexualisation of their worldview. Of this, </span><span style="background: white; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">far from opposing, or even
questioning,</span><span face=""Helvetica","sans-serif"" style="background: white; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">the agenda behind this power, the GTCS cheerleads us ever
forward into dystopia.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">By fronting pieties for the </span><span style="background: white; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">multicultural cult</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> and refusing to even mention the interests of Scotland’s native stock
population, whether pupil, parent or teacher, t</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">he
GTCS is a traitor to our country.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>In short, in its major mission to
Scottish education it is an enemy of our profession and our children. It has no
legitimacy amongst teachers, as evidenced by the return rates for the election
of its officers.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>I deeply resented the money spent on
the registration fee, and only did so by compulsion. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>
</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>Now that I no longer have to, I won’t.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">POSTSCRIPT: </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">I invited the newly installed GTCS apparatchik-placeman
(CEO), Dr Pauline Stephen, to comment on the points I made in my resignation. The reader is sure
to know already the nature of her response.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><br /></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-36925247441039021892021-12-26T23:26:00.005+00:002022-10-22T17:00:03.381+00:00THE SCHOOL CHRISTMAS SERVICE<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">The Meaning
of the Nativity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Christmas
service being the only guaranteed point of contact between the school and the
church proper, it is important that the modern Christian message is maximised:
guilt for our sins against the rest of the world and a plate collection
predicated on this. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nothing
numinous spoils this prostration, God’s presence in the Christmas service is as
a sort of reparations tribunal judge. And so the pupils listen to a sermon as
if written by Madonna (not the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Madre de
Dios</i>, but the so-named billionaire idiot screecher and African baby
snatcher ), emphasizing how much ‘we’ still must do for Third World female
equality, thirsty jungle denizens, and aspiring, but non-swimming, future UK
welfare recipients. ‘Do’ here meaning pay up and suffer anguish.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As told by
the officiating minister, this is the current meaning (apparently) of Jesus’s
birth: Guilt for the White children*, here cast in the role of modern day
Romans; and righteous indignation for the darker-hued ethnic others, here cast
as the meek who are deserving of inheriting the Earth – or, at least, the
European portion. This guilt is, of course, presumed to be a well-deserved consequence
of colonialism, endemic racism and unearned privilege. And, so the argument
goes, this White privilege (as the practical expression of all the vileness
that swarms around the White genotype) must be destroyed if society is to make
progress. This progress is not defined, indeed it is important to the message that
it is left as a hazy destination on the horizon; however, although the child is
not able to comprehend the nature of progress’s destination, the adult reading
here is sure to understand some of its the less attractive aspects. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You may
wonder, as I do, how much of this sermon the children understand? Perhaps not a
lot, at least in the literal sense. But the intended message of guilt and retribution
is planted deep and then conflated with progress. The message planted deep is
the whole point of the sermon, and for this they do not need to correctly
understand it. It grows within them as they grow. And when we consider that we and
our children are surrounded by this self-same message coming at us from every
direction, the idea that our children are being prepared for another world to
come is not at all far-fetched. Is this targeting of our children in this
vulnerable, candle-lit setting an example of the predictive programming we hear
either proffered or derided?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Certainly,
as an adult and would-be protector of our children’s mental well-being, many thoughts join the hymns and homilies in speeding up to the rafters and beyond. But
these, alas!, are incongruous to the season of goodwill; and so, in the spirit
of which I’ll only list the simplest question about the spiritually free, but social justice dense, new meaning
of Christmas: Justify this truth!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Conspiracy?;
absolutely! – Theory?; you decide!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Of course,
we need not accept the neuro-linguistic programming and shallow pieties of the
globalist Newspeak sock puppets that pass as current custodians of the empty churches.
We have our own saints to speak of spiritual truths, saints who have our
temporal as well as eternal well-being at heart. After the politicised nonsense
of the Christmas service, let us direct our children’s attention to them.
Indeed, we could turn to them for succour. And actually we should. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Omnes sancti orate pro
nobis</span></i></p><p> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">What think ye?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">* <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a subtle little epiphany created for their
future (perhaps), the listening boys are cast in the role of Jesus before the
Sanhedrin, but without the opportunity to reply to the slanders to their sex.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">PS. I wish my reader (thank you for your perseverance,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <span style="background: black;">………….</span> </span>) a merry C</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">hristmas and aa the best for the new year.</span></span></p><br /><p></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-26328811455925868892021-11-29T02:12:00.009+00:002021-12-10T10:39:01.153+00:00AN INSPECTOR CALLS. PART 2<h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b> Continuing our series celebrating the work of HM Inspectors of Education and the joy their presence invariably brings to a school.</b></span></h4><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><h2 style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">…and in my dream methinks I saw the world as it was firstly ordained.</span></span></h2><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt;">The
inspectors lined up before the assembled teaching staff. Their leader, the
Kommissar Kapitan of Education, spoke: </span><i style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">We
are going to show you how we’ve earned our stripes. Me and my officers are
going to come into your classes at random and show yous how it’s done. People
ask us on what authority do we swoop down on you like fiery archangels? Well,
you see this</i><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt;"> (and he indicated a black cross hanging from a red silk ribbon
around his throat), </span><i style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">this tells you that
I’ve earned the right to lead by example and am not afraid of non-compliant pupils, idiotic policies or box-ticking monkeys in management. Like yourselves, the pupils will understand that I am motivated by love of learning and informed by experience and common sense. </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt;">He
continued: </span><i style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">We’ll deliver to your classes
pacey, engaging and light-hearted lessons, properly differentiated and with
effective use of technology. You’ll see difficult pupils effectively managed and
led to instruction by subtle psychology. You’ll see the pedagogic overload and
clichés discarded and replaced with intuition and experience. The rubbish bin
will be bursting with the once fashionable nonsense of learning intentions,
growth mindset, success criteria, self-assessment, revisiting strategic goals,
time to reflect on their target, the chaos of active learning, etcetera,
etcetera, blah, blah, blah and blah! The children will start the lesson but
lightly burdened, and end it just the same.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">All you need do is watch. Take notes as
you wish. Be not afraid of our example, as we in turn are not afraid of your
judgement.</span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting";"><br /></span></p><h2 style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: normal;">I me
thought, ‘Now wouldn’t that be something – an inspector that builds rather than
destroys, has craft rather than guile, has integrity rather than a checksheet.’</span></span></h2><h2 style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And then
a voice said: </span>‘I have sent this phantasie through airy realms to shew ye by means of ironic whimsy the nature
and scale of your trial in inspection-land. And too, how great shall be thine
reward for conquest over this enemy. </span></span></span></h2><h2 style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">‘But
now, the dawn beckons, and, alas, reality.’</span></span></span></span></h2><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><p class="MsoNormal">NOTE: It is my contention that HM Inspectors of Education,
as state enforcers of political dogma, endless admin and learning cliché,
contribute less than zero to the <i>actual</i>
improvement of schools. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The possibility of a visit by them hangs like a contagion
over a school – the staff driven to distraction, or worse! Deceit forever
surrounds their presence. I have never heard, nor head of, an inspection report
that said anything genuinely useful, far less displaying wisdom. It’s just
another boondoggle at top dollar. Better alternatives to HM inspections readily
suggest themselves, not least employing real leaders as headteachers. </p><p class="MsoNormal">It would be wonderful if just some the many inspectors who read this blog would take some time off from counting down to their retirement date and deign to defend their profession against this attack on their relevance, competence and integrity. I am sure that the reader understands not to hold their breath while awaiting this courtesy.</p></span></span></span></span></div><h4 style="background: whitesmoke; line-height: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><span style="background: rgb(242, 255, 255); color: #222222;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></o:p></span></span></h4><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-86616526352399709792021-11-04T18:12:00.001+00:002021-11-05T11:48:30.873+00:00H.M Inspector of Education<p> Dedicated, with sympathy, to those teachers about to face Cthulhu. Here it speaks in advance of the heavy judgement its presence brings:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fbf3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(251, 243, 243); font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fbf3f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; background: rgb(251, 243, 243); font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">An
Inspector Calls.</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Prepare your
folios, let me my comfort find</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Hard words shall fly like dust before the wind<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Teachers
maun dae something for their meat <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">An so maun
inspectors<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Cry aa you
want, your tears are wine tae me<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Your <i>D</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">inny kens</i> I hear as music sweet<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The
judgement already fated, the report <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Your
punishment, my swinging club<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">And yet, I
deserve your pity <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">For at that
time when all are judged<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">We wha judge
are judgit the harshest<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The
hypocrite’s H branded on the arse.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">They’ve evolved to be like this. Don’t be too hard on them, we’re all
parasites on something. </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">HM Sta<span style="background-color: white;">tio<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">nary</span> O</span>ffice (Inspector of the HM Inspectors of
Education</span><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> )</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0070c0;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-35342050763828019802021-09-28T14:11:00.002+00:002021-09-29T16:14:31.426+00:00 EDUCATION'S FUTURE PURPOSE<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Anti-racism; Scottish Education’s
Number One Priority<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Each year ‘Show Racism the Red Card
Scotland’ holds a competition that sees young people, from Primary 1 to FE,
coming up with creative ways to promote messages of anti-racism. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But why? How
did this become so important? Did those promoting this not see the implicit
dark message, or notice the terrible potential with the transformation of the
definitions of racism from what one does, to what one says, to what one thinks,
to what one is assumed to think, to presence, to mere existence being a hate
crime if you have the wrong opinion. Or the wrong colour; and here we arrive at
‘Whiteness’, the latest Talmudic sophistry which allows the attack on White
interests and Whites as people under the justice trope of merely attacking a
concept. Primary schools are not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">yet </i>discussing
‘Whiteness’as a
pathology to be eradicated and then this celebrated as a good for humanity.
However, this morbid obsession is in the background to all the cultural choices
made within school which have gradually undermined White cultural interests. For
example, it's a now a near necessity that no Christian religious festival can
be mentioned without an obsequious reference to some other religion’s
apparently equivalent festival (e.g., Hanukkah and Christmas). This is a phenomenon
that flows just one way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What is worrying
about this particular aspect of our anti-racism priority is that, under the
guise of due consideration to other cultural practices, the gradual erosion of
White cultural references tacitly signals their irrelevance. The child not
seeing or hearing of such references naturally assumes they don’t exist; and
there is no mainstream or school-based source to disabuse them of this notion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This
requirement to promote others as equally valid reduces the preference the
native culture is due by right and thus shows it disrespect. In doing this, the
disrespect rebounds back on native Whites who cannot, or at least do not,
defend and high honour their own cultural practices and icons. This is another
example of the observation that in attempting to respect everything equally
regardless of intrinsic merit, or to celebrate everything equally, is to respect
and celebrate nothing in particular. This akin to not actually celebrating at
all!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In this
context to preference one thing is to disfavour something else. To honour a
culture more than your own is to dishonour your own. To dishonour your own in
front of ethnic others is to be a traitor. To always be seeking equivalences as
appeasement, to always be apologising, to be always finding validity through
the well-being of other groups, signals weakness. This cultural relativism
further damages our native confidence in our own values as it bolsters the same
effect in the field of ethics and morality; accepting all values as equal in
truth and validity makes it impossible to defend your own. One thusly destroys
one’s own authority and source of power. Only Whites do this. Teaching self-hate
is our White intellectual patrimony!</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Without a
doubt, there should indeed be a focus on anti-racism in Scottish primary
schools. The reader is sure to understand the direction in which this should be
encouraged to flow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Race is not Everything, but Without it
Everything is Nothing<o:p></o:p></span></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-53077035634438520492021-08-25T00:40:00.005+00:002021-09-03T11:13:10.993+00:00FASTER ELECTRIC GREEN: THE FUTURE OF SCHOOLS <p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Electric Scooters for the Future
School<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I’ve
seen a few electric scooters recently helmed by adults riding the pavement. And
I am aware of a discussion regarding the merit of this development: some
claiming (wrongly, obviously<span>!</span>) that the collision risk from a 20 stone land whale scootering at 20 mph outweighs
the benefit to the h<span>ungry juggernaut </span>of getting to the burger bar quicker. This debate brought to mind a
discussion that my class had regarding the pros and cons of this new
tech. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">As
part of the school’s pupil democracy initiative, classes were invited to
propose playground improvements. While doing so, a male pupil suggested the
provision of electric scooters. He then had to fend off accusations that boys
would just use them to chase girls – a fair point. This fun-filled image of
screaming girls and whooping boys, perhaps with lassos, had to be put
aside when another, and kinder, use was suggested: a better way to complete the Daily Mile*for those pupils who suffer from ‘sore legs’ when they run, or just
can’t be bothered due to laziness and fatness.<b> This was a genius level idea, which, even as
it crushingly defeats the purpose of the Daily Mile, perfectly epitomises the
diabolic connection between tech and health which the Daily Mile is apparently
designed to address. </b>Alas, all this came to a disappointing naught, and the scooters were not adopted. School
management, it appears, really doesn’t care about what the pupils think or want; <span>and I know that you'll be as surprised as me with the implication that </span>the various
pupil committees and opinion surveys are just for show to deceive the parents and wider public. And</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> for inuring our
pupils, as future citizens, to the irrelevancy of their democratic opinions
about anything. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">However,
some good news: it was recently reported that, given the trend in childhood obesity, such scooters (with
beefed-up frames) may indeed become a commonplace in school. <span>This to ensure that infant fatbergs don't turn up to class tired out from walking from their car drop-off to the classroom. </span>This is a powerful
response to those nayayers who never see any good in technology. And to those
who complain about greenhouse gas emission, I would remind them that the
scooters are electric powered. So you can go faster and save the planet faster! And as for those smart Alecs that claim that the electric charge stations themselves
depend on even more fossil fuel than just using fossil fuel directly (!) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ha ha, got you there!</i> – we have been informed that these electric charge stations will be powered by <span>government statistics </span>and
bullshit, and you don’t get any greener than that. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So, ha ha; got you back! </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">For
my part, I would swap a whiteboard update for the cost equivalent of a half-dozen
class-based electric scooters and a quad bike. Some tasks would surely get done
quicker; and even if this was just chasing girls at playtime, this alone would
justify the cost. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">What think ye?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">PS.
I am pleased to report that, thanks to IT upgrades, the daily mile is now completed
digitally. The pupil carbon footprint is a bit bigger, of course, (like the
waistband) but we now avoid ‘really’ sore legs and the terrible dangers of
getting wet should it rain while outdoors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p> NOTES</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">*
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An idea that primary schools, rather
than parents, should be responsible for promoting weight loss and fitness among
their children; and that the best way to do this is to have the children run a
mile every day. Basically, then, the school should become like a sort of
fitness camp. Of course, children should be running <u>miles</u> every day anyway, but
not as (as in the Daily Mile) running a continuous mile, as an adult runner
would. I think I’ll return to this topic in a later blogpost, for it nicely
illustrates the idiot-level thinking that relentlessly attends the curriculum, and
just as relentlessly dips the public purse. <o:p></o:p></span></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-4644611095705129082021-08-16T13:20:00.004+00:002022-02-15T11:34:36.397+00:00THE SHAKESPEARE ENIGMA: WHAT’S GOING ON?<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">There are more things
in heaven and earth, Horatio,</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></i></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"">My developed interest in Shakespeare
goes back over thirty years, however, I had ignored the authorship question (did
actor Will from Stratford write the works with his name on them?); assuming it
for the most part improperly motivated. And although aware of the stupendous
world of reference within his writing, which massively exceeds the various
limitations of his country-boy background, and the numerous other anomalies
surrounding his supposed life, I had countered them by acknowledging his genius
as a sufficient explanation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"">However, I no longer accept this
argument, as, following some recent study, I now realise that even a genius
still has to have a particular education to allow their art the particular form
of expression it takes. Leaving aside all the other evidences*(and there is a
lot), the actor Will from Stratford did not/could not have had such an
education that his putative works brilliantly reveal – this is, of course, the
authorship mystery. But who then?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: red;"> </span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Peter
Dawkins in his <i>The Shakespeare Enigma </i>simultaneously demonstrates Will
as clearly <u>not </u>the author, and convincingly argues for Sir Francis Bacon
using Will from Stratford as a mask. This work represents a formidable piece of
lifelong scholarship which is not easily gainsaid, no matter the obvious
objections to this idea that swiftly come to
mind and (as in my case) how much you cherish the idea of a common-stock
Englishman being the world’s greatest literary artist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The arguments
against Will the Stratford actor as author also involve the most amazing and
clear evidence of </span><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"">cabalistic
and other secret embedded codes within Shakespeare’s works, and particularly
the sonnets. This was something I had no awareness of at all. And its presence
takes my wonder to a whole new level; although, frankly, beyond my ability to understand,
far less appreciate, what exactly is going on, and why Shakespeare (whoever he
is) has included such esoteric mysteries hidden within his work. This level of
thinking (for want of a better term) is so far in advance of mine that I feel
like a child shown advanced calculus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"">In addition to Dawkin’s
demonstrations, the exploration <span style="color: #201f1e;">of these secret
signs, mathematical patterns and embedded codes within the works is brilliantly
explored by Alan Green, in his books and Bardcast videos. Green’s approach is
somewhat different to Dawkins, although the two </span>are complementary, and
indeed both researchers are friends, rather than rivals. Powered by the love of
Shakespeare’s work, and I suppose the thrill of the chase, Green has mastered
the daunting maths and trigonometry incorporated (yes, it actually is!) and made
himself a formidable cryptologist – all self taught! Both Green and Dawkins,
then, in their relentless intellectual curiosity and search for truth are following
a great British tradition of somewhat eccentric maverick-scholars. Eccentric,
of course, here meant as a respectful nod to their wonderful persistence, quite
devoid of self-interest. <span style="color: #0070c0;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: #0070c0;"> </span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: #201f1e;">Green </span><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"">too has, of necessity, arrived at a
similar refutation of Will from Stratford as the Shakespeare author, but argues
for the Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, with an influence of de Vere’s mentor, the
Elizabethan polymath, Dr Dee; Green’s evidence seems irresistible – at least,
for the sonnets<span style="color: #201f1e;">.</span><span style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: #201f1e;">However, I’m equally
convinced of Bacon as the real Shakespeare author. So, now I don’t know what to
think! I intuitively sense a single voice in the plays and in the sonnets
(although not necessarily the same in both</span><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"">,
as I understand the plays and poetry being quite different types of literary
endavour), but perhaps that voice has more than one mind? As my understanding
now rests, I cannot see any <span style="color: #201f1e;">way beyond a team
effort; certainly they knew each other well. By team effort, I am meaning sharing the same Shakespeare name as their front, and not necessarily directly collaborating on any particular publication. Strangely, years ago I came across
(I cannot remember when or where) just such an argument and considered it so
unlikely, ridiculously so, that I concluded the author of this argument quite
mad. And now me!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: #201f1e;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: #201f1e;">Lest you think that
this is written in any sort of disappointment at the Shakespeare mystery being
further compounded, I can assure you that this is not the case. The author is
the same genius he was before, and the beauty and wonder of his work is
unchanged by authorship questions. Whatever the truth of this, beyond doubt
Will Shakespeare**from Stratford is not author Shakespeare. Although Will from Stratford does
have a role in this story, perhaps as a collaborator providing an
actor’s insight, and/or a willing (bribed) mask for the true author who had (or
preferred) to remain hidden. Hiding creative authorship behind a false persona might seem inexplicable to us today, but is perfectly understandable in the febrile, dangerous context of early modern England.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: #201f1e;">Following up on what
seem to be revealing clues, Alan Green hopes to be able to soon pull back the
curtain and uncover physical evidence of the true author/s. They wanted this –
hence the clues! And somewhere, somehow, all the Shakespeares are smiling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: #201f1e;">As an advocate of
Shakespeare studies being incorporated into the primary school curriculum, in
lieu of …[better not say], I had at first considered the authorship question as
a significant complication. However, on further reflection, I now think the
exact opposite. Children love mysteries and puzzles, and complicated
motivations; what is the Shakespeare authorship question but this transposed to
early modern England? And it is, in its essential feature, hardly different
from Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven which enthralled me as a child. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: #201f1e;">Thusly, I no longer
fear introducing this aspect to children, but look forward to it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: #201f1e;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="xmsonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><i><span face=""Calibri","sans-serif"" style="color: #201f1e; font-size: 14pt;">All
things are ready if our minds be so.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What think
ye?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">* For me, speaking as a lover of literature
and a parent, what absolutely nails the mystery is that Shakespeare’s daughters
were illiterate. Consider: The world’s greatest literary genius, and an established
gentleman in his hometown, didn’t bother ensuring his children’s literacy! If the
actor Will from Stratford is the author, this is simply inexplicable. ( Note that by Shakespeare's time the claim that there was a cultural prejudice against female literacy is not valid – and certainly so against females with the social standing of Will's daughters)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> ** Will from Stratford has many different spellings and pronunciations of his surname. The one we know best (Shakespeare) only once turns up on a document, independently of the publications.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">PS. I cannot
even begin to here provide a summary of the brilliant work mentioned and so I’m
hoping this essay has made you curious and so will search out Peter and Alan’s
books, and Alan’s podcasts. I should note that I am not dismissing the traditional
view; although I note that some defenders of this position have adopted a
patronising, even sarcastic, attitude to the rival arguments – casting them in
the popular trope of conspiracy theory to better discredit it – but, in fact,
more discredits themselves (looking at you, Shapiro!) in refusing to properly consider the serious
questions posed by the authorship controversy. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A collection
of authorship arguments can be found at the home page of the link below. This
specific link takes you to a page with videos about it and a statement of the
authorship question, which is also read out loud (excellently) by the actor
Michael York, should you prefer to hear it: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://doubtaboutwill.org/">https://doubtaboutwill.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-31601579232173776832021-08-02T15:14:00.006+00:002021-08-07T21:43:44.462+00:00REWARDING THE PUPPET<p> </p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">CEO Ken Muir CBE</span></h4><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ve just found out that the ex CEO of the GTCS<sup>1</sup>,
Ken Muir, has been made a CBE; this for “services to education.” Never was it
more deserved. And Her Majesty has to be commended for exposing, in
awarding this ‘honour’, the true value of Ken to the Scottish
nation. CBE tells you everything you need to know about him and his
role in “bringing Scottish education into the 21st century.” I already
knew him well through his regular articles in the GTCS monthly ‘professional’
magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Under his leadership, the GTCS completed its
transformation from a simple, but sufficiently functional, administrative body
that basically maintained a box file of those deemed qualified to teach to a
bureaucratically bloated, Soviet-style state organ that has led the
profession into a death embrace with educational nonsense.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In fronting all the social justice pieties and
relentless initiatives to ‘enhance standards’, and ‘tackle inequities’,
the GTCS has created a technocratic hellscape that delivers endless
failure at top dollar. And then lies about it through its in-house Pravda, here
called (Ha ha!) <i>Teaching Scotland,</i> but really should be<i> Unteaching
Scotland.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Endless failure at top dollar; <i>Aye, there’s the
rub!</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After the <i>Review of Additional Support for
Learning </i>“raises serious questions” about translating inclusion into
effective practice, Ken is “shocked by the realities of inequity”; likewise, he
is “sickened’ by racism in schools. He is always ‘disappointed at the lack of
progress’ towards that shape-shifting chimera called Excellence; and always
(bravely, naturally) recognises the need for ‘more questions’, ‘more
commitment’, ‘more reviews’ and ‘more resources’. But fortunately, less
teaching seem too dark a profession, he is always encouraged by some new
initiative – especially those involving the GTCS itself laundering the hoovered
up public funds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He is like a cliché machine for the brave new world of
social justice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In over 40 years within teaching apparently he has not
noticed any patterns behind the relentless fakery and deceptions, the
destructive trends and false ideas, the Utopian madness behind all the
failures. Nor noticed the countless billions spent on tomorrow’s garbage,
or that every fix further embeds the problem. What is it with Ken – idiot,
puppet or (borrowing the phrase) willing executioner? Either way, he carries no
shame. He’s our fiddling Nero!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In confronting social reality and human nature, the
hubris behind current teaching practice represents nothing less than an attack
on human consciousness in general and, specifically, psychological warfare
against us natives. <b>No other generation of teachers has had to endure the
infiltration and subversion of their workplace to the extent that ours has.</b> And
no other generation of pupils has had to endure such psychological manipulation
and been the deliberate subject of dark political vision.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">CEO Ken had nothing to say about this! In his
disingenuous calls for scrutiny and accountability he could have started with
himself. But he never once questioned establishment narratives. The
globalist ambition for Scotland carries vast power, but, as it is realised
through subverted bureaucracies, it still needs valets to deliver its messages.
And so, (<i>'atta boy!</i>) enter Ken. And now you know why the ‘honour’. This corporate
tool served his true master well; and all for only £100K + and a stonking
pension.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">One wonders about the spirit motivating such establishment
cogs? His monthly articles displayed such clichéd imbecility, such dissembling
emptiness, that he must have known he was lying. Of course, this ability is why
he was installed (in the manner of a toilet) as CEO. But still one hopes, if
integrity and leadership cannot to be displayed <i>en route </i>to career
security, then one can hope that conscience catches up with ambition upon
retirement. And, at last, free to tell the truth! After all, he’s not tribal or
cabal, and being an old man with his reckoning on the near horizon, why not
clear your conscience before that final classroom door and do his country a
true service by addressing to the public the true reason for the endless school
failures without fear or favour to teachers, parents, bureaucrats, politicians
and pupils. This could be done in a dignified manner, after the fashion of
Solzhenitsyn.<sup>2</sup><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But Ken has nothing to say here! Has he been bought
for the bauble tossed his way?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I used to think that cowardice streaked with shame
explained the silence of such creed as Ken, but now I believe that their
loyalty to the lies that they see destroying their own people was not bought,
it was given. Ken, like his CEO ilk, was born to be a traitor to his own
people. This is basic genetics at play.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I was thinking on approaching this piece of
considering Ken as another destroyer-general, but on reflection this was
honouring his service to our demise too much. Traitor-slave more describes his
role. CBE is his brand of ownership.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What think ye?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">PS. I am using the familiar Ken, but not as a friendly gesture. It seems the least offensive way of indicating my lack of respect.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> NOTES</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">1. General Teaching Council for Scotland. Formerly an
administrative body and now a globalist front and sales agent for digital
solution proffered by our IT overlords.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">2. My fantasy preference would be after the manner of
Dave Moss resigning his employment in the movie, <i>Glengarry Glen Ross</i>.The Mitch and
Murray office should be replaced with the Scottish Parliament – it seems like a fairly good fit. And wee Nic could be
Tony Roma. Actually, she is him in a pantsuit!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><br /><p></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-78547158382505223482021-07-23T10:26:00.003+00:002021-08-31T22:36:01.752+00:00HONOURING OUR ANCESTORS <p> <span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b>Commemorating the Day After.</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Today, the 23<sup>rd</sup> of July, was a day of national reckoning for our ancestors in 1298. For this was the day after Wallace’s Scottish Commons Army* suffered a defeat by their national enemy at the Battle of Falkirk on the 22<sup>nd</sup> July. The English, led by their great king, Edward 1, the ‘Hammer of the Scots’ himself, utilised for the first time the irresistible tactical combination of massed archers (the arrow storm*) followed by an armoured cavalry charge, then infantry to finish off survivors; it was a set-piece battle we had little chance of winning anyway. The scale of this defeat is hard to know, for then, as now, both sides had an interest in spinning the result for advantage, but regardless it was still a solid defeat. Any Scots who did not escape were not offered the option of surrender; no POWs in the 13<sup>th</sup> Century! After the triumph at the Battle of Stirling Bridge the year before, this defeat could have been psychologically crushing and politically breaking.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">But it wasn’t. Our ancestors picked themselves up, dusted themselves down and started all over again. And this is why I am writing commemorating this, rather than the battle, which I am happy for our English cousins to celebrate if they wish.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">Although the examination of this episode makes fascinating history, it is not my intention to do this here, but just to salute the fortitude of our ancestors on this date in holding fast to their identity and independence, as Scots – for this is how they referred to themselves. Without this belief, which they proved to be true in the profoundest sense, I would not have written this, nor you read it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">And I do this too as a reference to the political and cultural chaos that is encroaching ever nearer to our wee corner, with a reminder that we have in our heritage that stuff which will enable us to ride it out and see it off. We need to remind ourselves of this, as no-one else does.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dae richt. Fear nocht. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The commons army, so named because its command and structure was not dependent on the compromised Scotch nobility and their retinues. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In other words, it was the common us!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">* This was no hyperbole. Just doing the simple maths for a comfortable rate of longbow shooting with the probable number of archers could easily yield 100,000 arrows, and it could have been even more! Add the slingshot and crossbow bolts to this banquet of aerial death, and note that most Scotch soldiers were, at best, lightly armoured. The effect of this arrow storm on the packed ranks of Scotch infantry would hardly be less than that of machine guns.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">[My Wallace bio covers this topic should you be interested in exploring it further. ]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px;">This is a repost from last year, given the date and the nature of the topic this seems an apt thing to do.</span></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-55028391323947826952021-07-10T01:09:00.005+00:002021-07-10T19:53:59.228+00:00WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS?<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Children’s University<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Under a teasing sun warming <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">behind the classroom glass<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">the glacier slow drag to term’s end<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">and then, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>just when it seemed that<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">the final day would never arrive,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">it did. Freedom day, best day of the year<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">the start of the summer holidays <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">and naturally children’s thoughts, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">once freed from classwork, turn quickly<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">to lessons, recording attainment <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">and graduating, cap and gown<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>…from university – at 8 years old!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">If a child naively thought that they
could do children’s things in the summer hols, then they should think again.
For here we introduce Children’s University for 5-14 year olds; killing two birds
with the one stone; more pressure on our children to ‘achieve’ and that false
achievement then celebrated.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Actually, this university is a
delusional summer school puffed up by verbiage and an all-smiling, professional
website, as is SOP nowadays for anything connected to education. This done
without (apparently?) considering the pandemic effect on real childhood
experiences and achievements by conflating them with phoney ones, like the C U.
Here, after completing the required number of educational units, which have to
be diligently recorded (at five years old, ha ha!), children even attend a cap
and gown graduation where they get their ‘degree’! No doubt, all this is
Faceborged by proud (and obviously better!) parents. Everybody graduates, of
course, except they don’t really. But the inversion, devaluing and degrading of
language is real, as is the child’s loss of valuable playing time.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Some may say:<i> Now, hold on,
Seneca</i>. <i>This claim hardly does credit to the wisdom you feign in
borrowing the mantle of your illustrious namesake; what’s wrong with someone
putting together some activities and lessons for the summer hols? Kids get
bored sometimes, you know!</i> Stated thusly, the answer is – absolutely
nothing! Doing things, educational or otherwise, with children over the
holidays (and especially, your own children) is natural and right. Organising
at local level, also meets my approval. But the C.U. idea goes beyond this
organically-sized project. And taking the thinking, beyond the simple idea, to
second level and beyond allows us to see danger shaping up.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Firstly, in the obligation on parents
and children to be thinking of lessons and attainment during what is
traditionally a downtime; ignoring that this downtime is central to
consolidation of learning and mental recovery. As if still at school, the
child’s mind never gets into holiday mode, but always has a lesson coming up;
moreover, one which has to be recorded into their uni ‘passport’. I liken this
situation to an adult going on holiday and daily checking their work emails or
updating their professional development folder!</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Secondly, conferring the word
‘university’ on children’s activities contributes to the phenomenon of ‘word
inflation’, whereby the ordinary (or, dare you think it, substandard?) is
redefined in glowing terms; thus to inflate the conceit of the hearer to better
deceive them. By transferring meanings across adult and child domains we
devalue terms and concepts, and confuse the recipients. It is a form
of psychological manipulation, and by this means the disingenuous and downright
lies enter into the things they describe. And thusly, are our schools full of
bullshit. A cornerstone of the revival of our culture has to be an
awareness of how this malefic language degrades us, wedded to a conscious
attempt to restore natural language by rejecting the verbose, the deceitful and
the Orwellian.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Finally, I am concerned at the real
threat that comes with funding and nice websites – that of subversion. Can
anyone doubt now, with White racism and sexism found everywhere, that such a
ready-made platform (tailored to the demographic most desired by our masters)
will soon find itself dancing to their tunes.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Anyway, I don’t believe the claim that
such programmes create a sense of achievement and boost confidence. I think
that, regardless of a child’s real interest in the topic they are studying, it
is seen as just another adult-mediated thing they are forced to do.
And parents are, at best, patronising their children if they buy into this idea
of the Children's University.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I think that parents should be wary of
such programmes. Let your children have real time off. If they get bored, then
that’s their problem to fix.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">There is a time and a place for
everything, but it seems that every time and place is to be seized as an
opportunity to impose ‘good ideas’ on our children. Everything is about
achievement, it seems; it’s as if children are preparing their C.V. at 8 years
old. Maybe they are.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">What think ye?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-44633014707772924672021-06-25T20:00:00.010+00:002021-07-14T11:03:45.604+00:00AGILITY: A CRUCIAL QUALITY<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">The Lovely Trivium of Childhood; Optimism,
Grace, Agility.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I recently
noticed a schoolboy of around ten years old attempting to climb over a fence of
about five feet tall. What a palaver, he had no idea how to do it; finally,
leaving defeated. I was tempted to demonstrate the jump, lean over and flip
that would accomplish this, but desisted on realising that I would likely
complete my explanation of the technique to the sheriff court. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">When I was this
child’s age, such a fence would represent a delay of seconds to me and the
small commandos that made up the schoolboy cohort then. And if I was this child’s
teacher, Monday would be devoted to acquiring this essential skill, disingenuously
disguised as studying angles or a transitioning workshop. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This got me thinking
about agility, and comparing the antique child’s environment which placed a
premium on it, to the now – where it is near non-existent and anyway disapproved of.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Agility is a
quality that if it is not acquired young, is not acquired. It should be a defining
feature of being a child (see, graceful entry), but, except for those children
who are specifically trained for it via an adult-led sport, has been replaced
with digital dexterity. This is a poor swap. And one of great consequence, beyond being able to climb a fence to escape PC. Murdoch! For this loss feeds
into lifestyle and health options, and particularly future ones. The wheezing
stiffy at ten is being trapped into a life of wheezing stiffness. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The school
solution is obvious – running in the corridor and leaping up and down stairs.
Teachers could lead by example, perhaps chasing slow pupils along corridors, or
tigging them at their desks to encourage a counter-tig around the classroom.
The recalcitrant slow should be chastised as necessary: <i>Ha, ha, cannae catch me!<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And: <i>Excuse me, you know the rules. No walking in
the corridor. Now get going – quickly!<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Imagine how cool it would be to have a headteacher that was agile, instead of one that (excuse me, while I select a diplomatic phrase) seemed like the personification of a icing bun.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Classes
could sprint out of the classroom at the playtime and lunch bell (<i>Last out is a silly sausage!</i>), and skip or hop back afterwards. Barriers and water-courses could be introduced
throughout the corridor. Swing bars could be fitted to corridor ceilings to encourage arboreal agility. A large water jump should be placed in front of the
headteacher's office. CRT ‘wokeshops’ could be replaced with Race Theory
workshops, where teachers learn how to lead by example with high hurdles and the
steeplechase. Certain suitable sections of the school building could be
converted to parkour standard with money recovered from the class laptop
budget scam. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Weekly
awards for top traceur in each class. Tig would be a subject studied, hopefully replacing IT lessons. Kids would love it. Younger female teachers would fit
into hot pants again; and what sort of man would object to that!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What think
ye?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">PS. I've just had a flashback from years ago: Once, coming along the school corridor, I passed a wee P1 girl skipping. How wonderful is that? I think this illustrates that lovely trivium I referred to above. Despite being transported with delight at witnessing how a little sprite can make anywhere a forest glade in sunshine, I had the wherewithal to compliment her skipping. The HT in that school would have censured her. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="background: whitesmoke; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-82411907308454066662021-06-09T22:59:00.067+00:002021-07-05T21:38:47.079+00:00SCOTLAND'S SAINT<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Message<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Once
forgetting who he worked for</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Columba
found out the hard way <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">not to
cross his employer’s plans <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">for
Scotland.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He
found out too that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">beautiful
accommodates ruthless<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">the
angel appearing not as<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">the
expected cherub but<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">an SS </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sturmscharführer</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
with Iron Cross <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and
Gold Oak Leaves <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">an
angelic enforcer who lashed <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">the
miscreant saint for three solid days<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">the
brothers could hear the whipping <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and
cries inside the saint’s hut but <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">daren’t
interfere for fear that <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">the
holy hit man might ask:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">D’ye want tae
try some as well, Son?</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And
find themselves going to vespers <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">with
their face in a towel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Columba
bore these scars<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">for
life and carried the <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">experience
into his dealings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">with
recalcitrant Scottish kings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When
asking, <i>Don’t you think <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">that in all the lands of the world, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">God couldn’t find another king <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">for your people?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It was
hardly a question and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">the kings, taking note of the holy man's<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">scarred back, knew </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">this
was a god </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">with a
message they could appreciate;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My way
or the highway!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Perhaps, seeing in the mind’s eye,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">the
downstairs accommodation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and
God’s war band waiting <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">beyond
the palisade<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">with
whips and heated tongs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">they
took the baptism<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">for
Scotland’s sake.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Today, the 9th June, is the day of Columba's earthly death in 597 on Iona, after a long life of converting pagans, curing the sick, banishing demons and other still enjoyed benefits of his blessings. This little poem is written in gratitude for the protection our nation's saint has provided (as promised) to us. It seems to be working – after all, we're still here, while better appointed others have long took the road to oblivion. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The poem is actually from a little book, </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">Epiphany in Azure</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, which you can download free if you click on the Big Ride link.</span></p><br /><p></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-55617861471738712872021-06-03T22:47:00.005+00:002021-07-05T21:50:28.352+00:00HAPPY DEATHDAY, GYORGY<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This week’s
destroyer-general: Georg Lukacs</span><sup>1</sup><span style="font-size: x-large;"> (1885-1971)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Consumed
with hatred for Gentile society, this ugly imp and fraud philosopher used his
birthright pilpul and tribal chutzpah to sell the cultural Marxist ideas that
have led us to our on-going cultural destruction. His stated ambition was to
kill the Western spirit, and for this reason his tribal cohorts ensured that he
was always able to find an audience, sinecure and publisher. His operating
principles are taken from the same Talmudic playbook that has led our art to
embrace garbage (see Sept 2020 entry), our media to be immersed in racism and sex, and our politics
to be about endless wars and intrigue on behalf of…?...</span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">O, yeah, democracy.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Of course,
he was from a family of banking barons (literally), the ‘class enemies’ he
wanted to destroy<sup>2</sup> were, in fact, people like you. The Soviet
experiment, especially in the twenties and thirties, with a Jewish-Bolshevik
elect crushing Mother Russia’s (and especially, Ukrania’s) Orthodox children
like insects, gets near to his idea of Aliyah.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Typically, and
you might have noticed this pattern elsewhere, he was rather too interested in
radical sex education; correctly seeing this as a double lashing of pleasure – destroying
the European ethnic family while (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">O,…wild
guess!</i>) indulging his obsessive dirty mind. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">However, we
must give credit where it is due, and he well deserves it as a major figure in
promoting the academic and political culture that have led us to the abyss.
This is why he headlines this series in a blog on Scottish education, even
though he’s a Hungarian (actually, ‘Hungarian’). We are swirling round the
lavvy pan because of tribal radicals <span style="background-color: white;">l</span>ike him casting a hex over us. And their power is very great in academia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The word
salad gobbledygook of his major works is just misdirection from his real role
as a destroyer-general. His work is not really philosophic, but operative in
intent<sup>3</sup> – leading to the ‘cleansing of false consciousness’. Now
that I know what this actually means and who it references, I feel so foolish
getting taken in by it. O, to have the time returned that was wasted on trying
to make sense of this Gollum. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Yet, you
don’t even need to know him or his work, even by repute, for the miasma to spread
its contagion, for his type are legion and the end result is always the same
for us. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">If only he
was alive, he would love the way things are turning out. He wanted a culture of
pessimism (for Western Christians) and a world abandoned by their God; let us
hope that in the afterlife he is getting these wishes returned. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I recently came across his name again in connection to the fiftieth anniversary of his death. This got me thinking that the source of much of our woes can be traced to miserable sociopaths, like Lucaks, too clever for everybody’s good. It might seem a far stretch, on first meeting the idea, that such obvious dystopian fraudsters, writing nonsense that few even read, could have caused our current madness; but on further reflection, one sees that these intellectual Lucifers planted the poisoned seed in academia which, as we see, is the foundation crop for all the sickly ideas harvested in our schools.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As per Phoenician O.P., this is not his
real name.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Destroy
is not used euphemistically by him. And in case you were wondering: note too,
that it was class enemies that were to be re-educated, mainly by bullets,
so this does not count as a genocide; nor is worthy of memorials, endless
movies or reparations. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By this I mean that he was not primarily motivated
by a spirit of philosophic enquiry, but that his work's true inspiration was to
destroy the Christian West. This makes his work polemical and political, rather
than scholarly. To be fair to him, he hardly hid this desire<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">NB. Three <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">O</i>s in this piece – I surpass myself for…<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">O</i>,…exclamatory excellence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-47992816652620102822021-05-18T13:44:00.002+00:002021-05-19T07:09:27.525+00:00THE KANSAS CITY EXPERIMENT <blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">From fevered veins of angry teacher rads</span><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And such conceits as clownage keeps in
pay</span><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We’ll lead you to the zealous halls of
learning</span><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There to hear our professors of
education indulge</span><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Their fantasy in equal scale and
appetite</span><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-size: 12pt;">To the lofty stash of stolen public
money</span><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There to whip their impatient dream to
shape</span> </blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Or not, as your eyes see it.</span></blockquote></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">A Shining City on the Hill</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">That which cannot be referenced in educational discourse, although it is the endpoint of our hubris. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Imagine all educational fantasists were given a blank cheque
and the instruction to do everything they can to make education work for our
disadvantaged children – as it should. Whatever the complaint or deficiency in
our school system, fix it. Plan it deep, get the best, rack up optimism. Prove
your arguments that disadvantage, and not culture or intelligence, or dare you
think it, race, lies behind historical lack of achievement. At last enlightenment
dreams meet political will: Individual PCs to take home, personal mentors,
limitless resources, after school activities by the bucket-load, free breakfasts,
free this, free that and the next thing, Olympic-size swimming pool? – you got
it. Disadvantaged parents not forgotten either with vouchers galore for everything, excepting alcohol. Every incentive dreamed by man or god made manifest in this one place. Failure was made impossible by this power of righteous imagination married to educational science.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Spent, built, remodelled, recruited, encouraged, provided,
indulged. And the result; a complete failure. A COMPLETE FAILURE by any metric.
Well beyond the bounds of the darkest gainsayers. Indeed, outcomes were
inversely proportional to expenditure. It has to be independently confirmed to be
believed. Do so.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of course, the meeting with reality only slightly set back the
educational fantasists for their faith is made of sterner stuff. Perhaps they a missed heartbeat when faced with the ruin of
their hopes, plans and literally the founding stock of their Utopian future.
The lesson to them; there was no lesson to them! Their Jacobin attentions to
the educational system were doubled down, the inconvenient fact silently, swiftly
transited to the memory hole. Any who dared to mention it were,..well, you know what they were called! Institutional racism was apparently to blame, even for the blue
on blue stabbings. </p><p class="MsoNormal">The lesson to us: our fantasist enemies do not operate in
the rational realm. Their complaints and programmes (and pogroms) are not about fixing
things, but breaking them. And us. And your children, who are not their
children.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">It is these parasite-professors and destroyer-activists and suchlike creatures that stand in the shadows behind too much of our educational ambitions.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You did not read this. You do not know about any such
experiment. Nor do you want to. Is Kansas City even a place?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">PS. And should they be required, apologies to Marlowe. Such thievery has its impulse from deepest admiration.</p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-11174191126888317892021-05-04T17:58:00.007+00:002021-06-28T11:29:23.572+00:00HOMAGE TO CHAUCER<p> </p>
<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 115%;">Whan
that May with his sonne sa bryght<br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Whan
that May with his sonne sa bryght<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Maketh
ye earth warm and setteth alle to ryght<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Then
shal lytel byrdies mak melodye<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">And
giveth preyse to him wha sitteth on hie.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Then
cometh tymme wi langre dais<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">And
man to womman turnes hys gais<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Wi
amorous thochtes of futur blyss<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Yf
onlie she wad chuseth to be hys.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Quod
he, I love thee marvellyss welle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">be
my guidwyf and with mee dwelle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">I am
but a sympell churl, tis treue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">but
seeeth eternitee in a lyf with you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Now womman thinketh to be wyse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Picketh
a mate with lovynge eeyes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">And
thee shal everr blesst be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">By
loveth hym as he loveth thee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Based on The
Canterbury Tales prologue*, I’m <i>hopynge </i>that
this explains itself, and does not seem like a mock of the great
parent of our world-encompassing language. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">With a little effort (and a modern
font) Chaucer’s Middle English comes alive and reads quite easily. It is great
fun all round having children read it out and they can, using rhyming couplets
(as above), reproduce their own homage. The vocabulary and spelling has to be
supported, of course, but the only tricky bit is getting the first line. After
that’s done, it more or less writes itself for the first couple of verses. And then you've done it; your primary pupils have written in Middle English! We did it recently for April (hence the prologue reference) to <i>meikle delyghte and som pryde tae.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">After such a lesson, there's only one direction; onwards and<u> backwards</u> to Beowulf! Kids love this, Beowulf slays Mylie, Nikki, Ariana and all the other swamp-owned succubi.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">*</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote</span></i></p><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">
When April with its sweet-smelling
showers<br />
<i>The droghte of March hath perced to the
roote,<br />
</i> Has
pierced the drought of March to the root,<br />
<i>And bathed every veyne in swich
licour<br />
</i> And bathed
every vein (of the plants) in such liquid<br />
<i>Of which vertu engender<span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">éd</span> is the flour;<br />
</i> By the
power of which the flower is created</span><div><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">...............</span></div><div><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">FYI: There are many youtube examples for how to pronounce this; some are rubbish, but you'll quickly identify them. <br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nay, upon my word such gross
forgetfulness<br />
Betokens deserv’d calamity to this nation.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Just another
dead White man?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Shakespeare's work is a crucial
component of a child’s journey to full literacy, and love of their own
language and culture. Not just for our time, but for all time. And it’s not just me
that’s saying that!*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Properly taught, even young children love Shakespeare. Obviously, they love the tales told. But also, delighting in the parsing of even the most flighty of passages. And too, learning them to confident recital – what a power for a child to have and pride for their parent or teacher! I state this as a fact, directly known.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As part of
the general educational plan for the English speaking West, it is equally
crucial that Shakespeare is kept away from children and that teachers are ignorant, and perhaps even hostile, to our language’s greatest
champion. This has largely been achieved, at least in primary schools. Alas, we lose more than Hamlet when we lose Hamlet. For not only is the delight and beauty, wonder and wisdom lost, but also that connection to the world's greatest wordsmith, which is ours by birthright as native English speakers, and thusly a mighty source of pride of kinship. And by the necessary form of this, strength. This is what they are trying to snuff out, and why.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">'They' are always the same people. I appreciate that perhaps you cannot see them yet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We’ve got a
fight on our hands, ye celebrants of the numinous turned to word: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Once more unto the breach, dear friends.
Once more.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">This learned reference for the delight
of the many Shakespearians among the readers. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">PS. Our many English readers can, of course, have a double celebration as this date is also Saint George's Day. </p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-41459973150528375642021-04-18T19:01:00.005+00:002021-04-22T11:36:05.275+00:00Anonymous Teacher Calls for More Nietzsche in Scottish Primary Schools<p> </p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lighten Up</span></span></b></h4>
<p style="text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nothing succeeds if prankishness has
no part in it.</span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Looking through, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Teaching
Scotland</i>, the GTCS’s professional journal, one is struck by the manic
marriage of its unrelenting moral censure of Scottish culture with imminent rapture. Magazine
after magazine, piling up like pancakes, berates us natives as racial bigots,
while holding out the almost grasped promise of excellence to be at last achieved
by multiculturalism; itself contingent on us natives removing ourselves from
the future. O, and embracing digital solutions, kindly sponsored by the same
global cabal that bring you viruses and vaccines. A small price to pay, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Teaching Scotland </i>implies, for us losing
our patrimony and presence.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All this is very complicated and serious, however. And we
wonder if this focus on social targets and political goals is taking light-heartedness and fun out of teaching, as it most definitely has out of the
magazine? This observation has led an anonymous teacher* to call for more Nietzsche
in Scottish primary schools, apparently as a counter to this seriousness. Despite
that stern moustache, it seems that the German overman was a noted advocate of
prankishness:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">”Maintaining cheerfulness in the midst of a gloomy task,
fraught with immeasurable responsibility, is no small feat; and yet what is
needed more than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds if prankishness has no part in
it.” — Nietzsche. Twilight of the Idols.<o:p></o:p></p>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Noting, not only its role
as a fun increaser and balance to excessive seriousness, but as an intellectual
quality in its own right. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">For it was ever a sign of intelligence and
a lively spirit at work; naturally gathering to itself
wit and ironies, self-depreciation and smiling eyes behind the rebuke. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Good old, Nietzsche, always looking for a
laugh and in it finding a truth presciently apposite to our Scottish school circumstances. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Such prankishness should be encouraged in schools, so naturally it isn’t! </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Perhaps, rather than more
‘conversations’ about the underlying racist and sexist structures of our
schools, we need more prankishness. Especially when such ‘conversations’ begin.<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal">It would be nice to think that Nietzsche would be added to
the German wall in our primary class to keep Arminius, Wagner, von Manstein, Beckenbauer
and Merkel company. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What think ye?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was me (identity withheld to preserve anonymity).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NB. I’ve described <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Teaching
Scotland</i> as the GTCS’s professional journal, but really it is so much more
than that. In fact, mere words cannot convey the vasty extent of my opinion.
Perhaps, in a later post, assuming voluminous requests, I may do so. Consider
me as Macduff, but yet without the sword. <o:p></o:p></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-11781110387302584702021-04-04T23:26:00.003+00:002021-04-10T13:31:09.707+00:00FOURTEEN<p> </p>
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ayont, and quit this
place. </span></span></i></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Without
a high IQ, by 14 years old school education has reached its limit, and at this
age and stage of your life you should be out of school and doing something
useful that earns money. Those that want to can stay on, providing they’ve got
a reason and the cognitive firepower to back it up. However, as the general
level of intelligence declines, we should be adjusting school leaving age
downwards to give the less brainy children an opportunity of usefully employing
ages 14-18. My mum and dad left school at 14 and this did not harm them. Nor
were my grannies rendered deficient by leaving school at 12, indeed, the exact
opposite.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This
strategy is not insulting to the less intelligent, less academically gifted, or
those whose interests lie elsewhere. Such children know themselves well in
advance of leaving age. It does them no good to pretend that they have a
potential for a certain sort of future, when they have not. Indeed, forcing
them (for such it is), to stay on past their threshold of tolerance for
school-life does them harm, and often to others who are forced to accommodate the
disruptive power of unwilling teenagers. This Quit at Fourteen strategy is thus,
realising, not denying, options.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A
very large proportion of jobs, particularly service and support, could easily
be done by 14 year olds – as they were in former times. Indeed, many of those
jobs could be done just as well by even younger children, and to their pleasure
and development. [Perhaps this to be explored another time]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">By
providing employment for our now school-free teens, this would have the added
benefit of reducing the sad need for military-age males from broken countries (perhaps
broken by us while wearing our NATO mask) to come here seeking employment or
welfare or revenge - the first two categories now being filled with our own young people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Middle
primary should be preparing children for this possible meeting with reality,
rather than indulging them in fanciful, if not dishonest, dreams of reaching
for the stars, which too often turn out to be black holes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What think ye?</span></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979704327565306170.post-70836369514965917372021-03-28T16:23:00.000+00:002021-03-28T16:23:41.921+00:00PAVLOVIAN<p></p><h3 style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14.0pt;">Alas, not the dessert.</span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14.0pt;">Regarding the recent necessity of transferring the entire
school curriculum online, I have heard numerous contradictory reports; running
the gamut from high praise to complete waste of time. One can easily imagine the
various factors attendant on the various opinions held. And all are probably
true, with the consensus averaging into the middle range. This concurs with my
opinion; this process has been fairly successful, in that the averagely
diligent pupil and parents, combined with the averagely diligent teacher, has
produced an averagely successful outcome – within the limits imposed. Whatever
damage has been done to pupils by the lockdown and the necessary online classroom
they have been attending for the last year is trivial, at least as far as their
learning is concerned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14.0pt;">Regardless of the various personal outcomes, though, one
would be correct and fair in claiming that, from a strictly operational viewpoint,
this has been well-handled by schools. And so, I nod an approval to the IT
monkeys behind it all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14.0pt;">However, that small blessing of my endorsement dispensed
with, I now wear my worried face. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14.0pt;">And this is because now that this trial run of remote, screen
learning has been proven, both in the operational sense and in the apparent
wide parent acceptance (admittedly, with no choice!), we can expect more of the
same. More of the same means even more time spent looking at screens, and at an
ever younger age. And when the new upgraded virus revisits its old haunts in
its 2021-2022 Tour – and we have been promised this by the philanthropist king
of the vaccines and his CDC courtiers – everything will be already in place for
the stay-safer option of a more permanent remote learning ‘experience’. Of
course, children already spend too much time in class looking at screens anyway,
but at least this 2D experience is somewhat mediated by the 4D presence of classmates
in meatspace. This new learning will do away with this distraction, and the
need for the teacher-avatar to get changed out of their pyjama bottoms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14.0pt;">My worry is that these developments further legitimise the life
online, from being an adjunct of teaching and learning, to being the main means.
As I see it, the most important second order effect of this is to embed deeper
in the child’s mind all the techniques and gimmicks, from garbage-level
computer artwork to the lab rat level electronic feedback, of laboratory-style animal
training as the default form of human learning. And to make the teacher rely on
pre-made resources to facilitate this – such resources often made by the same
interests that own and promote the online learning platforms! Thusly, making these
geegaws and symbols the same foundation for our children’s school learning as
they are in our adult world. i.e., the principal means of informing our
distorted world-view and training our responses to this. Everything on-screen
and everything controlled by those who own it. Their ambition for our future 4D
world curated through their control of our children’s 2D world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14.0pt;">Online learning is ultimately an enemy of our children.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14.0pt;">In short, this is programming in the manner of Pavlov. I
would remind you that his famous experiments were with dogs. Alas, the powers
that direct this coming mind experiment consider us and our children as an
animal much further down the phylogenetic scale.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 14.0pt;">What think ye?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Seneca Caledoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00623836669602829009noreply@blogger.com0