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Gove. When will he go?

154 replies

stillenacht1 · 08/06/2014 20:48

Things are unravelling for our Michael. What do you think will become of him? If he goes I will hold a partySmile

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LuluJakey1 · 08/06/2014 20:50

Can I come to your party? I can think of nothing I would like to celebrate more. I have lots of friends who would come too- probably at least 200. #GoveMustGO

CharlesRyder · 08/06/2014 20:53

I will come, also with 200 friends. Get a big venue. Maybe hire a National Park.

clam · 08/06/2014 20:55

Things are unravelling for him? Really?
You promise?????

Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin

stillenacht1 · 08/06/2014 21:04

Everyone is invitedSmile

Maybe wishful thinking but dear God he HAS to shove off soon please!

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picnicbasketcase · 08/06/2014 21:05

I wish he'd just fuck off. Every new thing he comes out with is more deranged and puts even more stress on already overworked teachers. He hasn't a clue. And I'm not even a teacher.

poorbuthappy · 08/06/2014 21:08

We are on the list please.
We are in Wakes but dh teaches in England so I feel we have a vested interest.
There will be a massive party at ours when he goes. GrinGrin

poorbuthappy · 08/06/2014 21:09

Wakes!????? Wales obviously.

Justtoobad · 08/06/2014 21:11

Should we send out the invites now, first one addressed Dear Mr Gove, exciting news.....

stillenacht1 · 08/06/2014 21:13

Sounds good to me but he is definitely not invited!

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LuluJakey1 · 08/06/2014 21:26

Please God let him go soon- for the sake of a whole generation of children whose education he is screwing about with Sad Angry

motherinferior · 08/06/2014 21:27

There will be dancing in the streets.

OhMyActualDays · 08/06/2014 21:27

Surely he is an election liability, he must be costing them votes!

chart53 · 08/06/2014 22:05

I am sure UKIP would have him ... surely that is where the mad and the bad go these days.

HeleneCixous · 08/06/2014 23:15

Not soon enough, that's for sure

gertiegusset · 08/06/2014 23:17

I know, I know...

But he is so blimmin' fugly too.

edamsavestheday · 08/06/2014 23:20

I love Gove being taken to the head and made to say sorry. Grin

lecherrs · 08/06/2014 23:33

Please let it be soon. His latest reforms to A levels and the scrapping of the 30 A levels and GCSEs is, I fear letting down students.

We can only hope he goes before he gets chance to implement these policies.

In 16 years of teaching, I've never hated an education secretary. I loathe this man.

LuluJakey1 · 09/06/2014 06:18

Look at this morning's news on Birmingham Schools. This is a direct outcome of Gove's policies.
Academies and Free schools do not answer to the Local Education Authority, they answer to central government and can do almost as they please.
Gove has pushed academisation of schools and introduced Free Schools. They can teach what they like and anyone can teach in them. So of course you get nutters involved in them, of course standards are low.
How many academies, academy chains and Free Schools now have been in trouble because they are failing schools? Many just in the last few months.

Gove Must Go!

stillenacht1 · 09/06/2014 07:11

Totally agree LuluJakey.

Gove out!!!!

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stillenacht1 · 09/06/2014 07:13

Agree lecherrs in 20 years of teaching I have never felt such a loathing for an Ed Sec.

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meditrina · 09/06/2014 07:18

They don't see him as a liability.

They're not his personal policies. They are Coalition policies.

He just gets them through (a good quality from the Westminster POV, especially as it is rare to achieve that in this particular Ministry).

PickledPorcupine · 09/06/2014 07:19

He's ruined my career, no other way of putting it! Going to have a baby and then leave teaching Sad.

noblegiraffe · 09/06/2014 07:20

Where will he go? Leader of the Conservatives probably.

SpottieDottie · 09/06/2014 07:21

I think there should be street parties up and down the country when he goes!

My youngest starts a new school in September, by my reckoning they have done at least 15 tests since the Easter holidays. Any system which demands so much testing needs to be massively overhauled. The latest one was a maths test which included stuff that they have never been taught, no idea what level it was but if the top set maths set haven't been taught it then what is the point?

Similarly, they did the level 5 literacy paper and some did the level 6 paper. The whole class, including those who were told they had got level 5 or 6 had to do the level 4 paper. Home education suddenly seems like a good idea.....

SpottieDottie · 09/06/2014 07:23

I think he should be invited to a traditional British school fayre style celebration as they always have somebody in the stocks to be the recipient of wet sponges.