Frost

Heavy frost, frost like snow, and across the road, the early morning location manager shivering in the school car park. Later we find out that the School District had said yes to the filming against the wishes of the Headteacher. What does that tell me, that maybe the school itself doesn't even get the money?
And the episode being filmed is the last one, the writers' strike has stopped all that.

Yesterday I got one of those e-mails and one that I have had before, that you are supposed to send on to let the world know.......something that isn't true. Last time I did nothing, and to do nothing is to acquiesce and to acquiesce is to perpetuate the lie.
The e-mail in question states that teaching about the Holocaust has been dropped from the British National Curriculum so as not to offend Muslims who deny that the Holocaust happened.
And THAT is not true. From the BBC website, which felt it necessary to respond to the circulating e-mail,

"But he added: "Teaching of the Holocaust is already compulsory in schools at Key Stage 3 [age 11-14].

"It will remain so in the new Key Stage 3 curriculum from September 2008.

"As Alan Johnson made clear in January there are certain subjects which will be protected in the new curriculum and that includes the Holocaust." "

And from the Holocaust Educational Trust website,

"We want to make it clear that our understanding is the Holocaust is and will continue to be on the National Curriculum and therefore continue to be taught in all UK schools."

Furthermore, it is not true that British Muslims pretend it never occurred. There may be some individuals who do so, but this claim is frankly insulting to the vast majority of British Muslims who are just normal Brits, because that claim is straightforward nuttiness.

And so this time I replied to the sender with all those links and all that information.

But there is something else about the e-mail that bugged me, it seemed to me that this crap had arisen because someone didn't listen properly, and the whole people not listening properly thing has been bugging me a lot lately. Like when someone will listen for one sentence and then either get stuck on that like an old record player needle, or construct the rest in their own head.

Those kind of people are fools, but they are annoying, dangerous fools.