Hands Off Poetry!
HANDS OFF POETRY!We strongly oppose the censoring of Carol Ann Duffy's poem Education for Leisure by the examination board AQA, which has removed it from its anthology because it deals with the conten... continue reading »
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"Poems such as this give young people space to think about, discuss and at times make sense of worrisome and difficult social concerns. I am surprised that AQA, which has encouraged speaking and listening development within the English curriculum should ta"
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"I studied this poem for my GCSEs four years ago, and completely back that it should be put back on the syllabus"
"one of AQA's 3 main AO's is about personal interpretation of poems-many students interpret this poem with a very positive outlook - how is banning something encouraging personal responses in our children?"
"A stupid decision which should have been retracted swiftly to avoid this (entirely justified) reaction."
"Whatever happened to freedom of speech? If 'I'm the Kind of the Castle' can be on a syllabus, this can."
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"This is an appalling decision. It suggests that those making it actually have no understanding of the curriculum they are constructing, and therefore suggests that the principles on which the AQA quals are built are suspect, and possibly a different quali"
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"Did not Frankenstein once seem too awful?...."
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