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79 But some people just never want to know ….
…. Even when it stares them in the face
It ain’t necessarily so
It ain’t necessarily so
The t’ings dat yo’ li’ble
To read in de Bible,
It ain’t necessarily so.
I am sorry if the lyric from Porgy & Bess offends you if you believe otherwise. I am not actually writing here about the Bible. I am making a general point. There are lots of places where things that yo’ li’ble to read ain’t necessarily so.
I had an unexpected illustration of this when I met up with Peter Batty, he slightly older than me, but the age differential relevant when we were pupils at Bede Grammar School in Sunderland before finding our way to Oxford. I knew his name. I didn’t know him. There were still plenty of things to talk about when we providentially met on holiday in the Balkans.
I had just visited Tito’s Mausoleum in Belgrade that confirmed to me that Tito and his partisans had served the Allies well in World War II, had stood out against Stalin and kept Yugoslavia one country during his lifetime. Wikipedia elaborates this at length.
Well, it ain’t necessarily so, and students of politics should buy Peter Batty’s recently published book Hoodwinking Churchill – Tito’s Great Confidence Trick, a good read and very well researched while he was producing and writing episodes in the internationally -praised TV series The World at War. This is truly a tragic horror story of duplicity and inhumanity, compounded by the naivete of the liberal “left” as well as by the cynicism of the reactionary “right”, invariably a toxic mix.
The comparison between Wikipedia and Peter’s book is not so much a lesson in living as a lesson in learning.
There is so much disinformation about and it can cast a long shadow. Here disinformation about Tito’s role in World War II and afterwards colours what we read today. It is not necessarily telling porkies. It is encapsulated in the Latin tag – suppressio veri, suggestio falsi. I am sure you do not need me to translate that.
I had another illustration of that just last week, another small sin of omission.
Special Educational Needs – Hiding the Truth
Figures released for the first time showed that three-quarters of pupils who make a slow start in the three-Rs fail to catch up in the last four years of primary school – leaving them poorly equipped for the demands of secondary education.
All sorts of reasons were given for this – socio-economic backgrounds, targeting, teachers concentrating on middle-ability pupils &c. Some said these facts didn’t matter anyway.
Nowhere did I see any suggestion that this could be part of the price of “Inclusion”, including most children with special needs in mainstream primary schools, in many cases to their disadvantage .Yes, they can survive there, but will they thrive there in the hands of classroom assistants instead of highly trained, dedicated teachers giving them all the time that they need? Does one size fit all? No-one wants to ask that.
Official league tables also showed four-in-10 pupils seen as high-fliers at the age of seven are struggling to reach their potential by the time they sit end-of-school tests at 11.
This is another consequence of the same policy, the Holy Grail of Equality and Inclusion, the “Wouldn’t-it-be-nice-if-land” that ideologues of the Left find so appealing.I call it “Never-never-land”. For me, in a global very diverse world, the Holy Grail is Fair Play. Very different, much better, and much more realistic. Read ispy.
Chris McGovern, a former headmaster and chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, describes the present situation: “It is a disastrous state of affairs and a terrible waste of talent.”
Of course if you are one of those who believe in Equality this will cause you no great concern. If you believe in Opportunity, on the other hand, it should worry you a lot. Are we doing our very best to help the future “winners” in our world succeed? No-one wants to ask that either.
If you are fighting to get a good special education for your child, not just the run of the mill stuff, Notes & Quotes in this website will give you more facts for your fight, facts you might not otherwise come across if you depend on the media to supply them. Some people, you see, never want to know.
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