{"id":5208,"date":"2011-03-02T22:45:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T22:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2011-03-02T22:45:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T22:45:26","slug":"jamies-dream-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5208","title":{"rendered":"Jamie&#8217;s Dream School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5209 lazyload\" title=\"Jamie's Dream School\" alt=\"Jamie's Dream School\" width=\"179\" height=\"101\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/dream_school.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 179px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 179\/101;\" \/>I just caught the tail end of this new Channel 4 series &#8211; <span style=\"color: #800000\">you can watch it on 4oD.<\/p>\n<p>The series synopsis is as follows: Jamie Oliver brings together some of Britain&#8217;s most inspirational individuals to see if they can persuade 20 young people who&#8217;ve left school with little to show for the experience to give education a second chance.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t actually say much about the &#8220;young people&#8221; involved. After seeing this first episode, it hammered home to me why I decided that a career in teaching was not for me! These &#8220;young people&#8221; were the reason.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, they know they&#8217;re on TV and it&#8217;s probably the most exciting thing that has happened &#8211; or ever will happen &#8211; in their lives. So they&#8217;re most likely behaving even more brattishly than they did when they were at school the first time. They all talk at the same time in squealy chav voices, and won&#8217;t shut up.<\/p>\n<p>One of the specialist teachers (David Starkey, a renowned historian) was slated by the &#8220;headmaster&#8221; for trying to deal with the little hooligans head on. It seems the only acceptable way to teach them is to give them lots of expensive treats and lavish lessons &#8211; how many schools can afford to ship in mediaeval jousting shows, and whole dead pigs for biology classes? Why waste the money on these useless morons?&#160;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/tv-and-radio\/2011\/mar\/02\/tv-review-jamies-dream-school\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">The Guardian&#8217;s review is typically right-on<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep an eye on this one. Looks interesting. Next week, Simon Callow appears to lose his temper with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just caught the tail end of this new Channel 4 series &#8211; you can watch it on 4oD. The series synopsis is as follows: Jamie Oliver brings together some of Britain&#8217;s most inspirational individuals to see if they can persuade 20 young people who&#8217;ve left school with little to show for the experience to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-tv-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}