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(not satire – it’s Boris Johnson!)
The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has announced plans to set up a dedicated unit at city hall to encourage a lot more “free schools” in London.
But maybe we should remind ourselves what exactly is so free about ‘free schools’?
Let’s see what Johnson’s mate, true blue Tory Toby Young, who was one of the first to help set up a “free school” in London, thinks free schools are free from.
According to Toby, one of the biggest advantages of ‘free schools’ is that they are free to ignore what he calls the ‘ghastly’ need to be inclusive – specifically that they are free from the need to have things such as ‘wheelchair ramps’ installed.
Don’t believe me that Toby thinks disabled children should be excluded from his free schools?
Well, take a look at one of his articles in the Spectator – in which he really does say that wheelchair ramps in schools are an example of ‘ghastly, politically correct’ inclusiveness.
But there’s something else free schools are free to do. According to Jamie Oliver, they are free to sell as much junk food as they want to their pupils – food which is banned in schools run by local education authorities.
So now we know the real story.
Boris Johnson has announced plans to set up a dedicated unit at city hall to encourage a lot more schools in London to be able to exclude disabled pupils from education and sell junk food to our children.
Call me old-fashioned, but that’s not good, is it?
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Related articles by Tom Pride on this subject:
Toby Young – disabled children should be excluded from schools
Public displays of poverty and disability to be banned
Scientists Confirm Deniers Were Right – Global Disability Is A Hoax!
‘Tory’ Syndrome – symptoms include knee-jerk reactions and offensive outbursts
Boris Johnson can’t distance himself from Cameron. He’s family.
London’s fire engines are now owned by one man – an old Etonian
The government has finally done something so outrageous even I can’t be bothered to satirise it
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hindle-a said:
I remember Toby Young’s article well,and his attempts to protest that he was misintepreted,only to further reveal his prejudice,I must be oldfasioned as well
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Drew said:
if schools are to be funded by KFC, Coke and Mac Donalds in partnership with proctor and gamble, Monsanto and Unum, what do we expect? You don’t need wheelchair ramps for morally corrupt, emotional cripples of the future do you?
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barbara1926 said:
Toby Young wrote ‘How To Lose Friends & Alienate People’ – shouldn’t Boris Johnson have written a foreword?
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jaynel62 said:
I suppose the only UP side of this is at least disabled children, deemed “unsuitable” by the Free Schools, will benefit from attending a State School where they will not be forced to be taught dead languages by untrained staff, fed crap and subjected to the prejudices of Privilege!
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Tom Pride said:
Might start to be a problem though if all schools are converted to Free Schools as Gove has said he wants.
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warriet said:
Would have been bigger news had Cameron not been so particularly incompetent the last couple of weeks; perhaps this is the beginning of the putsch to replace Cameron with a genuine toff?
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