Gove: Does he make everyone want to vomit?

[orangeandlemons]

That man. Ugh! He makes me feel sick. The trout pout, the hair, the smarm, th fucking zealot madman policies.

Words cannot express

Obviously just me then

No - you are certainly not alone. ewwww...skin crawly

I'm a teacher. OF COURSE he makes me want to vomit. And throw things at him.

What Coops said.

Just graduated as a teacher - I'll repeat what I said on an earlier thread:

He is an Utter Cunt.

But what is it that is so unutterably vile? He makes my flesh crawl. Has he got a lisp? I wish Spitting Image could have done a version of him. Just 2 huge lips. Ugh

No you are not alone, Gove is a vomit-inducing lizard.

Ten reasons why I can't stand Gove : eoin-clarke.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/forget-yachts-bibles-10-things-michael.html

The Gove reforms are the single best thing to happen in this government. He is a superb ambassador for education.

And personally, he strikes me as rather urbane and witty.

I work on the principle that if I ignore him long enough, eventually he'll go away.

Not sure if we ever got our bible, although even the Head agreed that when we did he'd be removing the vanity publishing foreword, punching a hole through the relevant pages, & hanging them up in the staff toilet for us to peruse at our leisure.

Gove for me is a good example of a negative consequences of private school system as ruling elites factory. Shallow recruitment pool forces system to pick up astonishing idiots for the positions they would never ever ever get if they did not have the wonderful vowels and ballooning self-confidence.

Sometimes I have the same feeling when I read major newspapers or watch BBC programmes: how this idiot finagled into this job? For some reason, such a feeling rarely kicks in among IT and finance professionals. Just saying.

No, OP, you're not alone.

Funny, I always thought longfingernails was a genuine right-winger with rather strong views. At last I've twigged, he/she must have been teasing all along. I mean, the Gove creature "urbane and witty", or a good ambassador for anything? My irony detector went off like the Five Minute Warning.

Gove is a... a... a THING. And I'm not even a teacher.

I stomped up to a colleague's desk on Friday for a good anti-Grove vom-fest. (We're not teachers.)

does the pope shit in the woods?

I fully support Sir Michael Wilshaw as head of OFSTED too.

Yes.

That's lovely LFN, I'd hate to think he didn't have any friends.

The teachers who are whining are becoming caricatures of themselves - they are so far to the left that even Dave/Davina Spart would say steady on...

Those who actually relish competition with other schools, those who want their individual talents for inspiring children rewarded and their useless (invariably socialist) colleagues kicked out, those who believe exams have been dumbed down beyond recognition, those who want a return to discipline in schools - those teachers will all be fine, and indeed, they will thrive.

The Gove free schools and academies will forced bog standard local comprehensives to either improve or shut. Fewer children will be forced to make do with a crap education as envisaged by the left/the teaching unions. More snap inspections by OFSTED will certainly help the cause too.

If Christine Blower is bleating, then it is strong evidence that Gove and Wilshaw are on the right path. And the more Christine Blower bleats, the happier that those of us who truly care about quality of education (as opposed to the Labour policy of pandering to producer interests in the teaching profession) become.

Ms Average, are you sure Gove actually went to private school? I thought he was state educated? (not that I 'm accusing you of prejudice)

Oooooh, useless and socialist! Lol!

Gove is a reptile. He makes my skin crawl.

Gove is the best minister that this government has. Ever since I was in secondary school (way back when Mrs. T and Johnny Major were PM's) there hasn't been a single Education Secretary who has convinced me that they actually give a flying fuck about educating children from poor backgrounds. What we have developed is a rotten system of debased qualifications with schools that concentrate all of their efforts in getting below average students up to an average standard and beggar the brightest. The curriculum has been dumbed down over the last 25 years or so (try getting even the brightest maths A* GCSE candidate to do calculus - many A level courses don't even cover it these days yet it used to be standard fare at O level). Many employers now make new job seekers sit a test to figure out what level their knowledge is at - if there were a clearer signal that the wider world doesn't trust exam results, what would it be?

That the very professionals, the teachers, who have presided over this slip in standards, protected and abetted by their over-unionised colleagues, are feeling threatened by the promise of reform is very telling.

BTW, for those indulging in the usual leftie game of playing the man and not the ball, try learning a bit about Michael Gove and his background - a man definitely not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Your prejudice blinds you and shows your tribal loyalties, and stupidity, for what it is.