Educational Matters

I have passed my Childcare NVQ, I am informed today. Ironically enough just a fortnight after giving up part-time Nursery work to fulltime homeschool my ten-year-old.

The daughter is on a bit of a roll this week - yes we've had the rellies down from the land of Mills and whippets which disrupted work in the beginning part of the week, but on the other hand she has produced a stunning piece of work on American Isolationism in WW2 this morning after watching the World At War episode on that subject yesterday. Lindbergh, Willkie, Roosevelt - all the major personalities are there, with a damn accurate timeline of events as well. She is now upstairs reading about the Battle of Midway, the first naval battle in history which exclusively consisted of air-ship combat.

She worked late today to finish a piece on Mummification (our current Religious Studies/History area is Ancient Egypt). That's a work ethic you dont find either encouraged or present at school - she went some twenty minutes over time but got a 10/10 for Content which is almost unheard of from me in the ten weeks or so we've been doing this, fascist taskmaster that I am.

We have our first 'inspection' tomorrow morning. The LEA (which wouldntbe there under a UKIP Government, maybe best not to mention that) likes to make six-monthly checks to see what resources/methods are being used and to check progress, apparently. Some of the more militant homeschooling parents of our acquaintance have advised us not to let anyone into our home, which true enough we dont have to do. However we are quite confident that a ten-year old who spends two hours looking at Wikipedia records of US Presidential Elections and asking questions about the personalities involved isnt going to be deemed not to be fulfilling her potential...

Its scary how fast she is coming along at home. Last week she scored 80% on a Maths paper intended for children 18 months further along, and Maths is her poorest subject! Huge improvements in handwriting, grammar, and general presentation. This in ten weeks. Is this a compliment to our teaching methods? Not especially I suspect. Its much more an indictment of the first degree murder of British Education in the last thirty years of Politically Correct Leftist lunacy.

The fear? Not that we aren't doing a good enough job educating her at home, but that she will be so far ahead of the curve when she goes back for High School that she gets bored.

What a country.

Britain 2006 - He Who Mugs The Piper Calls The Tune

The response to explaining to the teacher (who the day before had a ten-year old throw his schoolbag at her and hurl abuse after her in front of his classmates and just walked away) that the same ten-year old has been making threats against my daughter and also explaining to er how his father (who is actually a drug-dealing scumbag of a step-father) is going to come and beat me up.

"Well I'm afraid the Government is dragging its feet on giving us the funds so we can give him the support he needs."

The support he needs. That's Britain 2006.

In conversation with a 'small businesswoman' of my acquaintance this morning:

"Well you know I'm from Milton Keynes. When my kids were at school we had a huge problem with gypsies. Every so often there'd be a huge influx, they were violent, wrecked wherever they parked their caravans, and then there kids would come into the school, they were so badly-behaved, violent as well. And the school would find the funds and draft in extra staff to teach those kids for a few months and our kids' education would suffer accordingly."

Now thats about three-four years ago. Anyone think Milton Keynes isnt still laying out the welcome mat for those colourful gypsy folk with their colourful habit of turning pleasant green land into rubbish-choked wasteland? They come to Kings Park in Boscombe every year now, because Dorset County Council laid out the welcome mat a few years back and explained how it wanted to spend our money on 'reaching out' to these kings of the road. So now every year the community wearily awaits the few weeks when most of the park becomes a no-go area, when the grass which has just recovered from the previous year's depredations will be blackened and churned into mud again, when bouncers outside Bournemouth's clubs try to make sure they are on duty in another county in case the charming gypsy chappies start another round of drive-by shootings directed at the staff of whichever club they were turned away from the night before.

All at our expense. That's Britain 2006. Whoever makes the most noise and the most mess gets the resources.

When will the rest of us learn to start breaking things and shouting? It's the only form of communication that this or any future Government seems to understand.

News Roundup - Dhimmis, Babies and Cartoon Conspiracies

A quick news roundup of the things interesting DSD this week before preparations for my darling future PM's 10th Birthday Party begin in earnest, in no particular order...

Has the teeniest, tiniest fightback against Dhimmitude begun in the unlikely white fascist elite stronghold (not) of Kirklees? A Muslim English teacher has been suspended for refusing to stop wearing her veil during her classes on the not unreasonable grounds that her pupils cannot see her lips moving and get the full enunciation and has I'm told made the hallowed grounds of Radio 1 News according to the future Mrs Right-Wing Zionist Conspirator.

She herself was very impressed the other day when one of her colleagues (who had just told her he was a Muslim - but not 'one of those nutters who thinks all Jews should be killed' as he put it) had it pointed out to him by another colleague that the Koran does actually contain choice lines such as the one about the talking tree with the Jew hiding behind it, so how did he square that? Seems even the hardworking secular world of retail is able to find time to do its research...

However of course we have to have balance, dont we? So to tip the scales back, we have possibly the most shocking one I've heard for, oooh at least a week. Yes, its the Thought Police in our schools at their very worst, those pointless, useless bastards we laughably call 'teachers', showing their utter inability to allow any member of the white race actually born in this country to have even the most basic educational rights, such as being able to actually understand the people she is forced to sit with in class.

“She said I had to sit there with five Asian pupils,” said Codie yesterday. “Only one could speak English, so she had to tell that one what to do so she could explain in their language. Then she sat me with them and said ‘Discuss’.”

According to Codie, the five - four boys and a girl - then began talking in a language she didn’t understand, thought to be Urdu, so she went to speak to the teacher.

“I said ‘I’m not being funny, but can I change groups because I can’t understand them?’ But she started shouting and screaming, saying ‘It’s racist, you’re going to get done by the police’.”

Just for the record, I hope the teacher in question and the PC PC who took the subsequent decision to arrest her both die horribly as a result of being mugged by Somalian Asylum-Seekers and then being unable to communicate with their Pakistani paramedic crew that they are allergic to morphine. Or something like that.

See, now there's a family who will now all almost certainly go and vote BNP en masse along with their neighbours, friends and cousins. And under the circumstances who could really protest that decision?

Flipping topics to something less controversial (yeah right like I'd ever do that hehehe) we have an interesting chappie to alternately boo or hiss or cheer at in the shape of one Dick Devos, Michigan gubernatorial candidate. Dick takes the precise same position as do I on that thorniest of topics, abortion.

"As soon as Roe v. Wade is overturned, which I think we all pray that it will be ... we will revert back to Michigan law," DeVos said Thursday in an interview with Al Kresta, host of the syndicated Catholic talk show "Kresta in the Afternoon" on Ave Maria Radio. "We would go back to that standard, and I would be thrilled about it."

Michigan Law states, as does British Law if only our bastard politicians and doctors would ever stick to it, that abortions should only be performed if their is a demonstrable threat to the health of the mother. Not if, you know, you just got pissed and shagged some complete stranger without a condom.

But Dick, like myself isnt some maddened religious fanatic denouncing abortion with foam-flecked lips. No, he actually takes what would in any sane society be regarded as the middle view.

...he opposed an effort by the anti-abortion organization Michigan Chooses Life to get a measure on the 2006 ballot that would change the state constitution to legally define a person as existing at the moment of conception.

Good for him. I dont buy into that kind of religious nonsense - I take the simple view that once the foetus is sentient enough to properly react to pain stimuli, it is a life that should remain untouchable unless the conditions mentioned above are fulfilled, but not before.

I wasnt aware there was any move to overturn Roe vs Wade in the States. As there apparently is, I wholeheartedly welcome it too along with Mr DeVos.

In Entertainment news, did I mention how much I love South Park? I remember fondly reading this Frontpage Magazine article on the 'Culture War' in praise of the show's irreverent mocking of EVERY Political form, containing the money quote from co-creator Matt Stone:

“I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals.”

Now you see South Park has really got the Liberals pissed at them - because they have produced a show debunking the 'Truthers', the 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists who believe that, well, it was all just a hoax and the US blew up the Towers. Oh, and of course there were no Jews in the buildings at the time because those crafty evil Zionists were in on it as well. Or did it. Or something. A Blogger named Wuzzadem has tracked the 'Truthers' reactions and it makes for truly hilarious reading...

Here's undoubtedly my favourite quote:

"That would be super-great if the characters in the show actually realize that 9/11 was the work of the Zionist NWO! I think it will cause people to research it for themselves. Is this Cartman character pretty well respected among his friends?"

It must be quite frustrating to be Osama bin Laden sometimes. Not in the sense of failing miserably to establish the global caliphate and having to live in a cave with nothing but a few teenage goatherds for comfort, though I'm sure that's a constant niggle for old Osama. I'm talking about in the sense of meticulously planning, leading and carrying out the most large-scale terrorist atrocity in the past half-century, proudly claiming responsibility for it via your pals in Al-Jazeera and then having half the Muslim world and all your supporters out in the US decide the Jews and the Great Satan must have pulled it off instead!

Man, if he isnt dead in a ditch somewhere that man must be really, really pissed.