Sigh.......

My children wear clothes, yes. But they don't live their life to the Corporate Boxes...and Education has become just another Corporate Industry, which was born with the birth of the National Curriculum. The NC has been screwing up children and teachers alike, ever since its birth, together with producing a multi-million dollar industry of 'How To Get Your Child Through School Exams', which now line the entire walls of many of our bookshops.

It also gave birth to the Parental Worry Situation...

This of course, has been exacerbated by the Decimation of Motherhood, where mothers, riddled with worry and guilt over leaving Little Junior at the Breakfast Club, because they no longer have the time to feed their own children, can now declare, with pride and certainty that "My Little Junior is doing SO well at school! He's studying for 37 GCSEs...and after that he's going for 11 AS Levels, 52 A Levels AND a BSc degree in Football! We are just SO damned proud of him!"

Of course, Little Junior is really down in Wetherspoons, watching the Hen Night Girlies drink their cocktails through penis shaped straws (I kid you not!)....whilst he thinks "Is this shit REALLY what my life is all about? Is this REALLY *why* I was born?"

But, it takes away the anxiety of the over-stressed, over-anxious working parent, who knows in their heart that actually something is Megaenormously WRONG with the way kids are these days, but hasn't a clue how to live with it...

"And they're all made out of tickytacky and they all look just the same.."

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