A Rose By Any Other Name...

... is still a rose. But in a toe-stubbing piece of PC-stupidity, a new school in Sheffield is to be known as a "place of learning."

Head Teacher of Watercliffe Meadow, Linda Kingdon, reportedly said the word "school" had been removed from the title as a new approach to learning.

Costing a staggering £4.7m Watercliffe Meadow opened in September 2007, replacing Shirecliffe Juniors, Watermead Nursery Infants and Busk Meadow Nursery and Infants.

Councillor Andrew Sangar, aid: "It's a school, we consider it a school and that's how we refer to it. How a school chooses to manage and refer to itself is a matter for the board of governors and the community it serves and we're relaxed about that."

Ms. Kingdon said: 'We decided from an early stage we didn't want to use the word "school",' she told The Mail, 'This is Watercliffe Meadow, a place for learning. One reason was many of the parents of the children here had very negative connotations of school."

The Campaign for Plain English was less relaxed with "spokesperson" Marie Clair calling the decision, "laughable".

Laughable it is. A spade is still a spade, even if you call it "A multi-purpose manual gardening implement for the turning of soil. " Likewise, a school is still a school and bullshit still stinks.

What's shit got to do with this, you demand to know? If someone stood up to the PC bullshit these idiots came up with and made them spend a bit more time teaching the 3Rs, we might be better placed in the world's standing. No wonder children enter secondary schools barely able to read and write when the loonies are running the primaries.

I despair, I really do.