Well, I have, Max, tanks.
And, whatever one thinks of Duffy & her poetry, I think we'd agree
with this:
So when AQA presents its decision as responsible, the opposite is
true. It is motivated by abdication of responsibility, by indifference
to the literary merits of the poems it chooses and by a readiness to
abandon what should be its duty to promote: the study of literature.
Doug
On 12-Dec-09, at 1:13 AM, Max Richards wrote:
> I admit I haven't read this article through, but it gets me onside
> quickly.
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> Spiked generally runs refreshingly contrarian columns
> eg, against the push for climate change action...
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> Banning ‘dangerous’ poems in British schools
> by Michele Ledda
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> An examination board’s ban on Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Education for
> Leisure’ is
> a stab in the back for liberal education.
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> http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7818/
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