{"id":408,"date":"2011-01-14T13:25:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T12:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=408"},"modified":"2011-01-14T13:25:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T12:25:51","slug":"the-soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/01\/14\/the-soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"The soft bigotry of low expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This, rather un-Gove, phrase stood out me as I read his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.gov.uk\/inthenews\/speeches\/a0072274\/michael-gove-to-the-education-world-forum\">speech<\/a> at the Education World Forum last week in London. \u00a0Mr Gove did not attribute it, but as it seems firmly associated with one of George Bush Jnr's <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.newsmax.com\/archives\/articles\/2004\/1\/9\/110923.shtml\">speechwriters<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2006\/jun\/15\/usa.oliverburkeman\">Michael Gerson<\/a>), that is understandable. \u00a0An informative speech, all in all, about the government's position and policy, the English Baccalaureat, and its determination to address and undo the bigotry (as I see it of parents \/ teachers \/ governors \/ unions \u2013 and probably caretakers and cleaners as well). \u00a0But it was all very dull. \u00a0A pity, then, about all the cuts, as, otherwise, Gerson might be on the team full time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, rather un-Gove, phrase stood out me as I read his\u00a0speech at the Education World Forum last week in London. \u00a0Mr Gove did not attribute it, but as it seems firmly associated with one of George Bush Jnr's speechwriters (Michael...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}