A new £4.7m primary school in Sheffield is facing criticism for dropping the word “school” from its title after governors decided the term had “negative connotations”.
The headteacher of Sheffield’s Watercliffe Meadow, Linda Kingdon, said the south Yorkshire school, which is due to open on Monday, will instead be called a “place for learning”.
“We decided from an early stage we didn’t want to use the word ‘school’,” she told local newspaper the Sheffield Star.
“This is Watercliffe Meadow, a place for learning. One reason was many of the parents of the children here had very negative connotations of school.
If you drink too much Earl Grey tea your brain goes soft.
Don’t make it better, just change the name.
Without the links, I’d swear you were making this stuff up.
Why does being PC always require more words?
I guess that’s better than ‘torture palace’
Cripes! Talk about negative connotations! How about ‘headteacher’. What’s this lady teaching anyways…
So those who seek knowledge from professional teachers or from books (students) now go to a place for learning?
RBG
Of course they can always call it an “Elementary University”.
I wonder if their head would explode if someone said that their school was founded as the King’s College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, or decided to remember the difference between apostrophes: The Queen’s College of St Margaret and St Bernard, commonly called Queens’ College, in the University of Cambridge.
“If you drink too much Earl Grey tea your brain goes soft.” – Dvorak you need to understand that this is too politically incorrect as people from foreign cultures could be offended. 7up is what British people drink now.
They are performing a David Copperfield and will slip in the word Madrassa when no one is looking.
It’s all done with mirrors.
#10, ‘dro,
STFU, you’re irrelevant and, as usual, don’t know what you are talking about.
Earl Grey, Eideard? Does all your knowledge of the UK come from Marx Brothers movies…?
#12 – Mr. Fusion
Hey! That’s my line!
““If you drink too much Earl Grey tea your brain goes soft.” – Dvorak you need to understand that this is too politically incorrect as people from foreign cultures could be offended. 7up is what British people drink now.”
Two points: a) Dvorak didn’t submit this post, and didn’t say that, and b) If I remember a past No Agenda episode, he’s becoming quite a tea connoisseur, at last partly thanks to Adam.
Besides, Earl Grey is quite a serious tea, which is why Twinings formulated Lady Grey for those who can’t hack the real deal. 8)