Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Extra-Curricular Activities To Cry For

Regular readers may remember this snippet of state primary education from February.

No such nonsense from the girl Puddlecote's school. They had a Big Green Tidy Up today ... or litter-picking, to you and me.

I think the caretaker had a day off.
Well, it appears he's still not back as they traipsed around for an hour picking up rubbish again yesterday.

It's all part of 'Community Week', you see, and the educational delights don't end there. Tomorrow, she will be off on an exciting school trip - to Sainsbury's where they will be spending two hours packing customers' bags before lunch.

And today? Probably the most revealing day of the week as far as school aspirations are concerned. They were seconded to the senior part of the school to help with the bigger girls' studies ... by having their nails done.

Again, I'm seriously not making this up.

Thankfully, there are no activities planned for Friday. Because they all have the day off while the staff are trained how to teach this shit.

Just to remind you again. The cost to the taxpayer of 'educating' each primary school kid in England is £3,780 per year.