Not their finest hour

Studying Winston Churchill has been dropped from the compulsory English school curriculum. As the Daily Express puts it:

THE MADNESS OF BROWN

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More, from The Sun:

FURY erupted last night after Sir Winston Churchill was axed from school history lessons.

Britain’s cigar-chomping World War Two PM — famed for his two-finger victory salute — was removed from a list of figures secondary school children must learn about.

Instead they will be taught about “relevant” issues such as global warming and drug dangers. Churchill’s grandson, Tory MP Nicholas Soames, branded the move “total madness.”

The decision to axe Churchill is part of a major shake-up aimed at dragging the national curriculum into the 21st century, it was claimed last night.

But the plan — hatched by advisers — angered schools secretary Ed Balls, who vowed to probe ALL the changes to the curriculum.

The proposals will see traditional timetables torn up, with pupils focusing on modern “relevant” topics such as drug and booze abuse, climate change and GM foods.

Churchill — voted the greatest ever Briton — goes off the required lessons list, along with Hitler, Gandhi, Stalin and Martin Luther King.

There will also be no need to mention the Wars of the Roses, Elizabeth I or Henry VIII...

Looks like they're trying to Canadianize their teaching of history.

Mark C.

Damian adds: take a pill, Mark. I wasn't taught anything about Winston Churchill in school, but I still know he invented the electric light bulb.

Posted by markc at July 13, 2007 04:47 PM