You Couldn't Make It Up

 Received from Yvonne Larg 20th March 2009

 Trago/WMN/Challice 

A primery scool in Glostershire has recently axed spelling tests for its pupils because getting the words rong can leave them feeling like failures.  Children at Whitmister Church of England Primary will no longer have to lern lists of words such as Stopping, Between, Planned, Involved, or Smoothly.

The headmistress, Debbie Marklove, explained things in a letter to the parents: “We have taken the decision to stop spelling as homework as it is felt that although children may learn them perfectly at home, they are often unable to use them in their written work.  Also many children find this activity unnecessarily distressing.”

As one correspondent from New Zealand observed: “If you have any more Nu-Labour governments like the present one, you are going to need all the cannon fodder you can get.  Make sure your children get an education so they can apply for a passport and escape.”

Adding fuel to the fire is the Oxford University Press which has just culled hundreds of words from its Junior Dictionary, replacing them with entries better reflecting Britain as modern, multicultural and multi-faith. Tradition, religion and the countryside are the worst casualties.  Gone are words like Bishop, Chapel, Carol, Devil, Duchess, Emperor, Kingfisher, Lark, Poodle, Raven, Stork, Weasel, and Wren….

Incoming words are: MP3 player, Bullet-point, EU, Bungee jumping, Allergic, Emotion, Dyslexic, Euro, and Food Chain…

All I can say is that we will roo the day we surrended our education system to these politically correct spin-meisters.

David Challice

UK Independence Party

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