I refer you to my blurb, in my defence.

WAV - it's your blurb that's at fault; seriously. By all means set it down as a polemical blog, but to assume any of this carries any objective currency is just ridiculous. On the contrary, it just underlines how little you know & understand of any of the subjects you pontificate on. I note that you appear to have deleted your earlier published comments on the perils of same-sex parenting; if I were you, I'd follow suit with the rest of it.

Personally, I would seriously worry if I thought any kids had to learn at school from a book of English folk songs, especially English kids, but that's just me. It would be as ultimately pointless teaching them about railway modelling or bird watching; just another minority hobbyist irrelevance to the mainstream entirety. God knows kids have got enough to deal with at school as it is without filling their heads with that shit as well. In my day singing folk songs was considered subversive; I nearly got expelled for singing Lucy Wan in the playground once because it freaked out some fourth years...