Albert and Sir Peter Vardy...

By the way, this is a little comic I used to work on.. I called it "The wonderful (Mis)adventures of Albert Morvay".

It would always revolve around my good friend Albert meeting his horrific end in each comic, often in front of scarred school children. It makes it funnier, eh?

Anyway, I noticed a little more activity about the Sir Peter Vardy's Emmanuel Schools Foundation going around than usual. For those who dont know about this, the Sir Peter Vardy's Emmanuel Schools Foundation consists of three different schools set up in Doncaster, Gateshead and Middlesbrough, started up by the millionaire car dealer Sir Peter Vardy, a devote evangellical Christian.

It has been in the media quite a few times, often for negative reasons. Parents who have had children go to the schools had noticed that the school had an exclusion rate ten times the national average. Theres also been rumours of the schools doing this mainly to get rid of the "slower" students. If you look at the school's GCSE results, and the fact that Emmanuel College has had 97% of pupils gain five GCSEs at A*-C, it does seem a little fishy.

Children at these schools often get in trouble for minor things, say, not having a Bible in their bag (I've heard at one point it was two), smoking (One boy was expelled for smoking), getting a kiss from your "other half", walking down the wrong corridor (You cant make this stuff up, oh wait, suppose you can) and, well, Rampaging red hot homosexual love.

I've visited the schoo'ls website, seems pretty obnoxious. They've launched a minor assault on a Channel 4 documentry involving them, saying that the presenter was twisting facts to come to his own conclusions... Actually, if you watched it, you would have seen two hundred parents complaining why their children are getting so screwed at school.

I could go on more, but I need to get back to work. The links at the bottom should give you more information, but for now, toodle oooo...

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/publicservices/story/0,,1785743,00.html- The full story.

http://www.emmanuel-schools.org.uk/index.htm- The school (Man, those girls look hot).

Oh, and a very suspiciously similar school/story:
http://www.secularism.org.uk/studentsrevoltassixthformcollege.html

Is there any way I can get this blog noticed? Maybe by doing something shocking, I dont know...

Anyway, toodles...