{"id":26,"date":"2008-01-21T11:57:38","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T10:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=26"},"modified":"2008-01-24T22:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T21:27:00","slug":"is-this-what-they-mean-by-a-private-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Is this what they mean by a private education? Or just unfair?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pupils at private school discover their teacher in \u2018shocking soft-porn\u2019 advert on YouTube, Daily Mail<\/em> reports<\/p>\n

\u2018Is this what all English teachers get up to?\u2019 said a friend to me yesterday. It seems his son\u2019s English teacher is the latest to be snared by the ghost of follies past because of the Internet. I must say that his cheerful reaction seemed rather unwarranted in the circumstances. Not that the comments in the paper read much better. \u2018It is absolutely awful, morally,\u2019 the Mail <\/em>quoted one parent as saying, \u2018especially given the type of school she teaches in.\u2019 (Had this been a bog-standard comprehensive, it was implied, such conduct would have been acceptable.) \u2018Headteacher Andrew Chicken said the school was looking into the case,\u2019 the paper reports. Mr Chicken was pictured in his academic robes and grinning far too broadly in view of the gravity of the situation (nay, he almost seems to be smirking). Headmaster, please <\/em>don\u2019t look any more closely – avert your eyes! The students also appear to be treating this with unseemly levity; one is quoted as leaving a message for the unfortunate teacher on YouTube: \u2018Perhaps you could sign autographs at the bag racks.\u2019<\/p>\n

Still, let\u2019s look at the advantages. As the Mail<\/em>\u2019s report says in its opening sentence, \u2018When pupils at a private school found their English teacher starring in a raunchy video on the Internet, they paid attention like never before.\u2019 Reading the Daily Mail<\/em> site is never good for those of a liberal disposition, however; the right hand side of the web page carrying this article is headed Femail<\/em>; on the day I visited the page, the first article said: \u2018Is it breasts, height, amount of body hair? A new book reveals the secrets of attraction …\u2019 (Clearly the answer is no – it\u2019s being an English teacher that counts for most.) <\/p>\n

I shall refrain from linking to the news article: find the Daily Mail<\/em> for 16 January 2008 for yourselves if you must. <\/p>\n

Latest news<\/strong>: ‘Mum defends teacher’, the Manchester Evening News<\/em> reports on 19 January – and quite right too, especially when it seems the film may have been edited after shooting to change the emphasis. After all, this could happen to anyone, couldn’t it, your Majesty? <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the Sun<\/em>, that defender of freedom, has also reported the case (it’s now a ‘sex film’ – note the inverted commas, boys and girls). The comments posted by readers appear to support the teacher and at least show some erudition: ‘I suppose if she had played the lead in Romeo an Juliet<\/em> (with the nude scene as written in by W Shakespeare) she would have been OK,’ says ‘jimboman’. Funny, I don’t remember that in the Folio, Jim: have you been watching too many videos yourself? With friends from the Sun<\/em>…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pupils at private school discover their teacher in \u2018shocking soft-porn\u2019 advert on YouTube, Daily Mail reports – and the teacher disputes it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}