Joy Adamson, wow, not thought of her in a very long time. Nope, my words on FREE didn't come from Elsa, or Elsie...and it's strange, that if you know Roald Dahl so well you would even consider that Miss Sweetheart was me.

As for jade, yes, Miss Sweetheart IS a Sweetheart, that's the whole point. Because she cares for her children, respects them and sees them as whole people rather than means to fill the tick boxes in Examland, her pupils think the world of her. And she saw the truth in Jimmy James. Miss B saw only what she wanted to see and that was darkness and suspicion.

Clutterbuck was a name that just whizzed into my head, actually. I've never heard of that slang meaning. Mine came from the clutter on my desk, surrounding the screen here. I simply think of things on the spur of the moment, Emma. Surely you must appreciate that my Simple Mind does not contain the capacity to be so devious as you make out? You can't have it both ways.

Poxicat, a very wise and wonderful teacher once said to me that Education starts AFTER students have finally been able to walk away from school, not whilst they're tied into it.

Look up John Gatto and read what he says about education, another teacher of over 30 years standing, an award winning teacher too.

A child can learn far more on a holiday than sat on a chair having to study something they have absolutely no interest in.


If Hate Registers are brought in, then it will be the end of the Education system as we know it, because the whole idea is so utterly sick that it proves what kind of weird individuals are in charge of the nation's children.

Would I EVER let my kids go to be around anyone who had a Hate Register to hand, who recorded what 5 year olds were saying, then kept those words for reference for the next 13 years, to harp back to?   Are you MAD????? Of course I bloody wouldn't! And I'd hope that you wouldn't either, because YOUR children are just as capable of coming out with the new buzz word or summat they heard on TV last night, as anyone else's.

We truly have now reach Orwell's 1984, yet you folks seem happy with that situation.

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And then, of course, there was The Disappearance Register:

"People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 1


Miss B's favourite quote was this....

"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 3

...because she knew, that with her Hate Register held firmly in her hand, she controlled not only Jimmy James past, but also his future..


Big Brother is watching not just you, but your children.

Be afraid.
Be very afraid.

Then..send them off to school with their little lunch boxes and pray they don't say anything they shouldn't.