Because they're so BRIGHT
Sandi Toksvig: Six years I've sat in this chair - I've never bloody won. Jeremy, who says children are better off with a little buddha discipline?
Jeremy Hardy: The leader of the ATL which is the Assocation of Teachers and Lectur-Lecherers, which is randy teachers, says that Middle Class children are "pampered little buddhas". Was the buddha pampered? I thought he was quite asthetic; I thought he mooned around saying "oh, no more for me thanks, I'm The Buddha."
We know that MC parents indulge their children 'cause they all think, "My children are so bright. They're very very bright! That's why they're doing so badly at school! Because they're so bright. The teachers don't understand their answers, you see. I think the reason they misbehave is they're bored in the class, because they're so bright. They're not being stretched. Hermione's so bright, and that's why she misbehaves. I think she's so much brighter than the other children. And that's why she sets fire to them, I think."
...Because everyone concentrates on the children of the poor. "Oh these terrible chav children! Oh it's awful, they're all gypsies and they're terrible! And they park their caravans in the classroom with their illegal violent dogs and they're all footpads and highwaymen and it's terrible! And these days your child daren't go to a state school because they'll be instantly impregnated by some awful beastly costamonger's child! It's terrible!"
Actually, it turns out that the worst, most badly-behaved, lazy and indulged children are the children of the MC in schools, and it's the industrious hard-working children, barefoot children, from those parts of the country where the old fish mines have closed, who are much maligned; they're the salt of the earth, and it's all those children with stupid made-up names like Hosepipe and Ottawa.
And so they put their children in private schools - the ones who can afford it put them in private schools - where they make them wear preposterous uniforms. You think, don't make them.. that's a stone magnet, is that blazer! Just turned your child... By making them wear that vermillion trouser suit, y'know and a sort of Norman-French falcon's gauntlet, you've made them into a pebble target-
ST: Jeremy you have to stop because I'm going to die!
- "News Quiz Bright Children"
Jeremy Hardy: The leader of the ATL which is the Assocation of Teachers and Lectur-Lecherers, which is randy teachers, says that Middle Class children are "pampered little buddhas". Was the buddha pampered? I thought he was quite asthetic; I thought he mooned around saying "oh, no more for me thanks, I'm The Buddha."
We know that MC parents indulge their children 'cause they all think, "My children are so bright. They're very very bright! That's why they're doing so badly at school! Because they're so bright. The teachers don't understand their answers, you see. I think the reason they misbehave is they're bored in the class, because they're so bright. They're not being stretched. Hermione's so bright, and that's why she misbehaves. I think she's so much brighter than the other children. And that's why she sets fire to them, I think."
...Because everyone concentrates on the children of the poor. "Oh these terrible chav children! Oh it's awful, they're all gypsies and they're terrible! And they park their caravans in the classroom with their illegal violent dogs and they're all footpads and highwaymen and it's terrible! And these days your child daren't go to a state school because they'll be instantly impregnated by some awful beastly costamonger's child! It's terrible!"
Actually, it turns out that the worst, most badly-behaved, lazy and indulged children are the children of the MC in schools, and it's the industrious hard-working children, barefoot children, from those parts of the country where the old fish mines have closed, who are much maligned; they're the salt of the earth, and it's all those children with stupid made-up names like Hosepipe and Ottawa.
And so they put their children in private schools - the ones who can afford it put them in private schools - where they make them wear preposterous uniforms. You think, don't make them.. that's a stone magnet, is that blazer! Just turned your child... By making them wear that vermillion trouser suit, y'know and a sort of Norman-French falcon's gauntlet, you've made them into a pebble target-
ST: Jeremy you have to stop because I'm going to die!
- "News Quiz Bright Children"