Careless Tories!

[ramAnag]

I thought it was because you had a cold RA lol .
For us thickos who aren't teachers or who don't have kids in school... What are the 3 Rs?
I'm guessing that respect isn't one of them

Top of my list, RS...but it has to be earned.
Not sure where this teacher stuff comes from...or why you imply that those who aren’t teachers are ‘thickos’. Certainly not something I’ve ever suggested or thought.
The 3R’s? A term stemming from Dickensian times I believe and the bedrock of education in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s...Reading, (W)riting and (A)rithmetic.
I know...tenuous at best but don’t blame me. Before my time. Crucially important of course but probably best referred to nowadays as ‘literacy’ and ‘numeracy’.
My only point earlier was that, as far as I know, MA and I are the only forum members to have actually taught and we both appear to agree on the need for schools to place more value on ‘real life’ skills.
I’d go further and suggest that there’s a system of knowledge and control in this country which places high value/esteem on academic knowledge and places much lower status on more practical skills/knowledge. Probably suited both MA and I as we both went to Grammar School back in the day...but it needs addressing imo...anyway, you’re probably bored by now.

P.S. Curiously in view of your initial comment, I believe there are a newer 3 R’s these days...’Respect, Responsibility and Relationships’. Make of that what you will.

[Ramshank72]

Just humour at my own expense, maybe humility would be a good addition to the 3 Rs you suggest in your final comment. I never did pay too much attention to traditional literature, probably at my own loss, hence why it went over my head.

[ramAnag]

Just humour at my own expense, maybe humility would be a good addition to the 3 Rs you suggest in your final comment.

Yes, I agree. Returning back to the original topic it’s something the Tory MP - and minister for school standards - Jonathan Gullis might be reminded of given his appalling comments in Westminster this week.

When debating the ‘disappearance’ of about 200 asylum seeking children from a hotel in Brighton he heckled the speaker by saying, ‘they shouldn’t have come here if they didn’t want to be kidnapped and trafficked’. Unbelievable!

In the meantime...there are now 24 complaints of bullying against the Justice Minister...one Dominic Raab.

It seems this modern Tory Party is increasingly ‘careless’ where humility is concerned too.