to ban Christmas plays, time for making decorations and story time at primary school?

[HollyMiamiFLA]

Because it's wasting valuable learning time. All that time spent rehearsing for a 15 minute play. Preparing decorations for the classroom which then got removed. Sitting on a carpet listening to a story. It's all learning time that they are wasting.

From Michael Gove

There's an awful lot of astroturfing about Gove on MN.

Some people need a sense of humour

Did you think it was real? Just goes to show it is hard to distinguish between real Gove thoughts and made up ones.

Holly have you ever heard of libel?

I heard that he was going to allow Christmas plays so long as they were in Latin...

Now that would be a good thread. Which quotes are real and which are made up.

Easy, Holly, the least credible will be the real ones.

I think libel is the least of what Gove has to worry about

No Holly he doesn't have to worry about libel he has never said anything defamatory about you

I've just learned that he was adopted. That means he has two sets of parents who are shaking their heads is disbelief at what they have done.

Am I the first person to defame Gove?

Too funny that people are up in arms over joke OP rather than up in arms about Gove's policies.
Get a sense of humour.
Then, worry that actually, this man has a huge influence over your child's future.

FFS what is wrong with MN these days?

A good little jokey satirical jibe at Gove pissed all over by people with no humour bleating on about libel.

Back to OP - what about all that time children waste gestating?
Surely there must be a way to get in utero and get them working earlier?

actually Pipbin I am totally PO about making quips relating to folk being adopted.

[lemon lips]

OP v funny, I sighed in recognition of the MO; even if he's not done it yet it's amazingly plausible

I don't think Pipbin's comment was meant to offend.

Some schools have stopped story time as it interferes with learning.
ERIC (everyone reading in class) after lunch has gone in some schools - it's a good way to get everyone calm. Now there's learning activities to do instead. Must keep busy at all times.

I would not want to be a child in Gove's world of education.

What a shame that storytime has been stopped in some schools.

I apologise for offence caused, it was not what I intended at all.

We can get the kids to do this test instead of story time:

www.quiz.biz/quizz-669855.html

Can you guess which quotes are from Michael Gove and which are from Dolores Umbridge?

7/12 accuracy

I got 8, all based on guesswork

I have been told that silent reading isn't interactive enough so it is a waste of time. I am also told to improve literacy. Finding it hard to obey both instructions.

10/12!

'I have been told that silent reading isn't interactive enough so it is a waste of time.'

Since when has exposing children to expansive vocabulary been a waste of time? You are a tit Mr Gove.