The Philistines Are Not Just At The Gates ...

[sunny-dave]

... they are running education.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-27563466


So out go two of the greatest books ever written - 'To Kill a Mocking Bird' and 'Of Mice and Men' - and in come Russell Brand and Dizzee Rascal.


Jesus wept.

[humbersloop]

Full marks for consistency though, isn't this a rerun of what he did with the history curriculum?

Factor, while not Gove's suggestion, I think there's every chance he knows who Dizzee Rascal is

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/michael-gove-raps-wham-to-school-children-9219910.html

[mikey4444]

Rap is just pop music, no more and no less. It will pass over someday and the media will be banging on about something else, just as soon as the pop industry has invented something new. Pop music is essentially transitory. Even the Beatles are being forgotten. Both of my nieces, who are in their mid to late teens professed never to have heard of them at Xmas, when the subject came up.

We will still be reading Steinbeck a 100 years from now...does anybody think that this Rascal chap will be given the same honour ?

[Peter Pedant]

For chrissakes boys and gurlz we arent banning American Lit,
but saying that classroom study should initially be English Lit.

and the Diary of Anne Frank - that goes out as well.....
oh and Voltaire....
Three musketeers....

oh and Robbery under Arms - ralf boldwood - pity one of my relations was the basis for Frank Morringer....

Cry the beloved country....

and agree Jim - whose formative reading was done in the classroom ?

[yansee]

Talking to friends who are teachers and they are sick to death of the constant interfering by politicians and are thinking of moving abroad to teach or leave the profession altogether,MPs must stay out of education.