The Metropolis

Michael Heseltine knows why our schools are failing: hiring girls as teachers

Darren Atwater | Tuesday 9 November, 2010 14:15

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House of Lords guy Michael Heseltine has sympathy for failing schools, he does. And he is so appreciative of the ‘young girls’ who are trying to teach but they are, in reality, presiding over District 13.* That’s why he suggests the only feasible plan: send in retired army offices to maintain discipline.

* That French movie that was kind of a rip-off of Escape From New York? The one where Arrondissement 13 is a lawless enclave that lives by their own codes, untrammelled by civil society. They told me no one would get the reference.
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