To think that calling a pupil referral unit the "Phoenix Centre" is someone having a larf?

[LittleBella]

Doesn't it imply that all the attendees are arsonists? And doesn't it invite them to revel in their incendiary status? And if they're not arsonists, doesn't it invite them to become one?

erm, no

rising reborn and renewed from the ashes of their old selves

ackserley !

That did cross my mind, but I thought it was slightly unfortunate. Couldn't they have found another renewal/ re-birth analogy?

I just LOLed when I saw it. Had visions of loads of kids with boxes of matches in their pockets going in every day.

all i can see is peter kay in his motorised wheelchair giving the pupils there what for..........

Are you talking about the one in Bromley? It's a name that's always made me laugh.

I know the centre. The name never made me laugh. Always thought the name had far more to do with the "phoenix from the flames" than anything else.

Well I'm sure it does, the phoenix from the flames stuff, indeed. That's what made me larf. I suppose I'm concentrating on the flames, rather than the rising from.

Is there one in Bromley? I came across one in somewhere like Longfield or Longbourne or somewhere, in Kent.

does jerry st clair work there?????? i bet spencer is the receptionist

yeah - i bet the teachers start off lessons with "Can y'eer me now?"