Thirteen o’clock again already?
Via Matt, with have this edifying tale from the Times Educational Supplement:
Pupils as young as 10 are being asked personal questions, including how often they get drunk and whether their parents have paid jobs, in an Ofsted survey.
The education watchdog has told teachers they do not need parental permission before children complete the online questionnaire because it is anonymous.
But pupils are being asked for their full home postcode.
The information is being collated for - yep, you guessed it - ‘a national database’. Like a few drinks at the weekend? Got rumbled by your kids (as I did the other night) having a crafty fag? Then watch out. Ofsted aren’t now just interested in the quality of your children’s schools, they want to know about your quality of life as well.
Insert your favourite Nineteen Eighty-Four reference here. I refuse to acknowledge that they are overdone or cliched. On this occasion, I’ll go for the passage beginning ‘Nearly all children nowadays were horrible…’
Posted on June 1st, 2007 at 2:38 pm
| See also • Closing time • Thin Gruel • PFI Schools: Serving only the best chicken guts |
Permalink • Trackback • Subscribe By Email • Print This Post • • • |
|
Filed under Civil liberties, Evil of banality |
Unfortunately the building of the Stazi databases that will rule our lives for generations to come is becoming more and more intrusive, and to pick on the young and defenceless to gather the major part of their information databases is immoral and gut wrenchingly disgusting.
Ofsted is extending its remit, I dont know whether under their own steam or by design from central government, but their Strategic document is viewable here.
http://tinyurl.com/2ulqkv