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Cult of farking celebrity

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gherkinwithapurplemerkin · 15/01/2010 17:40

My dd1 is year 2 at school. They have been doing Famous People this week - literacy, history etc.

She has come home sounding interesting and well-informed about Grace Darling, Florence Nightingale, Eliz the first. Great thought I, interesting subjects and all women too.

Thursday. She comes out. "We did Cheryl Cole in famous people today".

Grrrrr. FGS. And WTF?

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Georgimama · 15/01/2010 20:42

If ever I wonder if private education really is going to be worth the money, I shall glance at this thread.

pointysaysrelax · 15/01/2010 20:51

cheryl cole is a famous person and many children are utterly obsessed by her. The kids probably said they wanted to find out more about her.

More depressing is the fact that this week several adults who I work with, were happy to chat about her and say how much they like her. I was pretty stony at that.

Boys2mam · 15/01/2010 20:53

Why pointy? Why are you stone faced about their discussing her?

JamesandHisFlamingSword · 15/01/2010 20:54

Yes, She IS famous - and maybe one of the other children brought her name up.

So not necessarily signalling the demise of state education.

Possibly the discussion was part of the P4S programme (philosophy for schools) which is happening in our school....

pointysaysrelax · 15/01/2010 21:10

When adults who are normally sensible and sharp talk about how cole is such a lovely person and how much they like it, I feel stony. Wouldn't that be any normla person's response? Maybe I'm just a crazy cat.

Boys2mam · 15/01/2010 21:24

Stony how? I could understand you not liking her for a specific reason but stony (to me) means a strong dislike and I don't understand that?

tispity · 15/01/2010 21:46

i don't like her either; she reminds me of my aunt (dumb as a bag of hammers, smiley, softly spoken, pretty (though never clasically beautiful) - indeed, children do tend to love those types (we did too before we saw her for the sociopath she really was - our poor mother had been ripping her (own) hair out trying to convince us of this, though we refused to believe it for years.

tispity · 15/01/2010 21:46

classically sp

GhoulsAreLoud · 15/01/2010 21:56

Biased about what?

Teachers? Nope, no feelings on teachers.

Cheryl Cole? Well, I can't stand the woman, if that helps?

FrauKoch · 15/01/2010 22:02

erm, are you absolutely certain that she didn\t mean Mary Seacole??

Monty100 · 15/01/2010 22:08

OP - lighten up?

secretgardin · 15/01/2010 22:13

amazing how she is a role model after attacking some woman a while back. short memories what about all the great sports women, journalists and politicians out there?

Miggsie · 15/01/2010 22:14

Grace Darling was working class...she rowed a boat out in a storm into the sea and saved 15 sailors whose ship was wrecked. They would have drowned if she had not one this. She risked her own life to save them.

Cheryl Cole is not fit to kiss Grace's soaking wet boots.

Boys2mam · 15/01/2010 22:22

I'm not arguing that they are known for better/different reasons, but how many recent figures have had to reach that achievement to be noticed?

Sally Gunnel's notoriety for relieving herself in the street?

JamesandHisFlamingSword · 15/01/2010 22:26

I thought the lesson was about famous people. She is famous. The OP also said the class had talked about Florence Nightingale etc.

I expect one of the other children brought her name up.

bridewolf · 16/01/2010 12:09

couldnt they have chosen some one who eats?

someone who doenst look like a hairy lollypop?

starving yourself makes you really misrable and aggressive, hence the assault charge......

Nancy66 · 16/01/2010 12:19

it was paula radcliffe that shat in the street not Sally Gunnell - Gunnell only ran 400m would be a bit much if she couldn't hold one in for 50 seconds

lolapoppins · 16/01/2010 12:23

This is the kind of thing that makes home ed so easy for me.

I'll just hand my ds the latest copy of Heat. Job done.

chippychippybangbang · 16/01/2010 13:45

I think she's worth it...

pointysaysrelax · 16/01/2010 14:27

No, I do not mean stony as in I have a strong dislike of cole.

I mean stony as in listening to a bunch of adults talking about how lovely someone is, someone who they know nothing about other than how she is carefully marketed in the media by people being paid a lot of money for their phony marketing knowledge, leaves me cold. The adults sound daft.

pointysaysrelax · 16/01/2010 14:29

or you could use it as an example to teach some critical literacy, lola. After all, people will be bombarded with these PR messages all their lives. Nothing wrong with critically studying something like heat. Making a decision that your child will never have a discussion about cole as it isn't good for their education, well, that's not very educational at all.

EvilHRLady · 16/01/2010 17:38

Ghouls - sorry, thought your nickname was a play on Girls Aloud...was trying to be amusing, obviously I was thinking too much about it
I'll get my coat...

MsMaryWollstonecraft · 16/01/2010 17:51

You're right OP- it's fucking shocking

(ere, did I tell you I saw Julian Barratt in John Lewis on Thursday?? Julian Barratt eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee)

MumsieNonna · 16/01/2010 18:00

Who's Cheryl Cole? Is she on the telly?

GhoulsAreLoud · 16/01/2010 22:23

Oops Evil, you're right, this is my haloween name which I haven't been arsed to change back but it was GirlsAreLoud

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