Following a bad inspection report an English school goes on a witch hunt
You want to hear a funny story about witch hunts? Here goes:
A village school is to scrap its historic witch logo because of fears that it drives away pupils and teachers. Warboys Community Primary School has used the emblem of a witch riding a broomstick on its uniforms for more than 60 years. The unusual badge, which also adorns the clocktower and kits of sports teams, marks the fact that the Cambridgeshire village was the last place in England to hang witches.
But the school’s governing body wants to get rid of the logo as part of measures to give it a “fresh start” after suffering poor inspection reports.
Warboys is the last recorded place in England where witches were hanged. Alice Samuels, in her late 70s, her husband John and her daughter Agnes were executed in 1593 after being accused by a 10-year-old girl, her four sisters and servants of causing them to have fits.
Such a cool story, really. The school gets a bad inspection report – meaning that its teaching was below par and to fix this problem they’re going to change the school logo…
What makes this truly funny is that this type of mythical (and plain hypocritical) thinking comes as close to the original idea of a witch hunt as the hairs on the wart of a witch’s nose.
Your cow gets sick? Blame the witch!
Your teachers are incompetent ninnies? Burn the witch logo!
Makes a lot of sense, don’t you think?
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August 30th, 2008 at 02:27
There is always so much information here in your blog, thank you!
August 30th, 2008 at 22:57
Thank you!
We aim to please - or, at least, to have fun…
J.