It was a nice ploy by Adam, what with the pond in crisis mode, the Oreo cupboard bare, the thin-skinned Major locked away ... what a sensitive wuss he is ...
Why not try to attract the pond's attention by attacking wretched lawyers?
... though it seems there might be job openings abroad ...
Bee's wax?
How now! Who's there? Well it's certainly not Adam, because when confronted with a crisis in education, the pond always turns to dashing Donners ...
And luckily he was on hand in the lizard Oz this day to save the pond's bacon, though they'd tucked him away, as if slightly ashamed or perhaps fearful of the impact on Donners if he was allowed, blinking, out into the light to shout at clouds ...
The good old "nature v. nurture" debate ... with Greg Hunters scurrying off here, but with devotees content to know that dashing Donners has it all in hand ...
Before getting on with Donners, the pond should acknowledge the admirable response of all the top private schools the moment they read Donners' screed.
They've started handing back all the cash they score, and have begun downgrading facilities to the basic level of a state school out in Woop Woop, telling agitated and anxious parents, "look, there's nothing we can do with your wretched spawn, it's all in the genes you know, and truth to tell, your genes are fucking hopeless and pathetic, and there's an end of it."
Tell 'em Donners, you tell 'em ...and please, remember to mention how tremendous the Catholic school system is ...
How now, saucy varlet, you cheeky rogue?
Oh come sir, that entirely ignores the genes, and the sordid in-breeding of the upper class.
Sic 'em dashing Donners, go get 'em ...
Well there's always a point to dashing Donners, and there it came, with the hint that private education funding might be under threat ...
Won't someone think of the Catholics? Remember, every sperm is sacred ...
Whatever you do, don't take away the funding, the Ponzi scheme is under enough stress at it is ... and remember the ACU is on the job, always making a case for the ACU!
It's all in the genes, even if that makes the entire matter of education an irrelevant, spurious exercise, because once the genes have spoken, what's the point? Better to toss hands in air and walk away, muttering "it was the genes wot did it" ...
Indeed, indeed, and at last the pond has come to understand why the Donald is now the President of the United States.
It had nothing to do with his daddy's money, it was the genes wot did it ... and perhaps a dash of the redemptive power of decent Xian thinking ... which, it has to be noted, has nothing to do with grasping covetously for taxpayer cash in the paw ...
Hmm, now let me see: in reference to his great mastery of Latin, Dr Samuel Johnson averred that "Sir, my master whipped me very well, without that I should have done nothing".
ReplyDeleteSo, Donners, it's really all down to just how sadistic your 'Master' is. No wonder you are full of praise for your beloved Catholic schools.
As to the rest of it, well yes, Broady Boy, I think we can all appreciate that 'inherent ability' might just have some relevance in determining academic achievement at primary and secondary school level.
But just a couple of things, matey:
1. How about the considerable inhibitory effect that the wrong socioeconomic and/or cultural backgound can have. Like, say, kids who live in the 20+% of Australian homes where English is not spoken who then have to sit a test in their comprehension of English ? Does that problem apply in many other places ? Other than the USA, anyway.
2. The pupils who graduate from schools in your favourite places - Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong and Korea (what no Finland ?) - how well do they do after they get their uni degrees ? Are the graduates who come from those places noticeably better at getting PhDs ? At winning Nobel Prizes ? At making very important new discoveries ? Or does it all just settle back into a more or less homogenous outcome ? You haven't said a single thing about that 'outcomes versus outputs' analysis, Donners: is it because you're too slow to think about it, or is it because it really does all turn out much of a muchness ?