Schoolboys Encouraged To Get Back To Nature
“SOMETHING is not right when a boy can’t sit down and watch a nature documentary on TV because he is to busy doing maths.”
Or doing Countdown, as it is known in the parlance of the modern school.
Gary James, deputy head of the Tiffin boys school, puts into words what millions of us have long thought.
Year 7 is a haven for boys aged between 11 and 12, and if they can’t watch two dung beatles copulating on a pile of donkey excreta, then what is education all about?
The Evening Standard also hears from one Martin Johnson, deputy general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers.
Says he:
“All too often homework tasks are mechanistic and repetitive.”
So more, er, nature documentaries at tiffin it is…
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September 23rd, 2008 at 12:22 am
Not a closet, no, chenier - actually an odd re-enactment of ‘The Hat Club’ that I go through each year to remember someone with whom I sat in a cupboard under the stairs many times, wearing her uncle’s discarded crash helmets while laughing like bloody idiots. We were also gazelles, she and I - but that’s for another day; another reminiscence.
Though at the end of the world I will likely go with a whimper; so perhaps my manly credentials are not as strong as they ought to be.
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:01 am
Tomorrow we will have to organise a ’spring magnetite from the cupboard’ squad; I’ll need your confirmation that it isn’t a closet, obviously, but otherwise I’m sure we will be good to go.
It has to be tomorrow because I promised myself that I would actually log out of anorak before midnight, so I can be up bright and early in the morning to see whether the pillars of civilisation are still vertical. It would be a shame to sleep in and miss the end of the world as we know it…
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:43 pm
These days boys don’t have to watch a documentary to see two creatures f**king on a pile of sh*t. Big Brother provides that for them. More hard maths, night-time boxing gloves and cold showers. It never did me any harm, and if I ever come out from the cupboard under the stairs, I’ll prove that statement.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:00 pm
I sometimes wonder if Kenneth has been incarnated again; another poster often has to go and look at the drainage in the lower fields…
September 22nd, 2008 at 8:49 pm
In the words of the late and great Kenneth Williams-
“The answer lies in the soil”.
September 22nd, 2008 at 8:39 pm
That would be the Tiffin Boy’s school that the Times League Table ranked as the 2nd best boys’ state school in the country, right?
Somehow, I suspect that dung beetles don’t feature much on the documentary menu…