Having
utterly failed to do the homework which she was set last time she went begging
to Brussels for a short extension to the deadline, the Prime Minister returned
this week to face the music. She made
the absurd claim that the failure wasn’t her fault because she’d outsourced the
work to an essay-writing factory which had let her down by failing to deliver
the work on time. Despite being firmly
of the opinion, which she had expressed forcefully on many occasions, that the
essay-writing factory was run by an utterly untrustworthy cove who should never
be allowed anywhere near any reputable institution of government, she still
swore that she had total faith that he would deliver the required essay within
a few days.
The
headteacher and assembled staff listened carefully to what she had to say but found
the excuses far from convincing. They
didn’t really believe that the outsourced essay was ever going to be delivered,
and even if it was it was probably going to be on a different topic anyway. But they were feeling in kindly mode; it was
clear that the pupil had a range of additional needs, and rather than mark her
as a failure they decided that it would be better to make ‘reasonable
adjustments’ – in this case to ignore the admission of attempted plagiarism and
allow a lengthy second extension to the submission date.
Whether
she heard the rider about getting on with the work and not wasting the time
again is doubtful, because she dashed straight back to her own classroom and
announced that she and parliament could celebrate by taking a holiday for the
next two weeks. With any luck, the headteacher
and staff wouldn’t even notice their absence, let alone think that she might
just be extracting the Michael…
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