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At the chalkface: Some good frontier gibberish

I tether my horse in the bike shed, mosey into the fancy foyer, check my holster, check my gun, lower my Stetson, kick in classroom door and stand alone, like Gary Cooper in High Noon

Summer term limps to a close. Are you a wreck? Tending to burn out? Tending to the neurasthenic. Are you sick and tired of being a sensitive wuss in a world of brute thugs, idiot parents and crazed management? Have you got empathy fatigue? Have you had a mental blip that humanity isn’t so wonderful, that maybe Hobbes, Machiavelli or the Beano were on to something? That what you need is a more robust pedagogy. “Some good frontier gibberish,” as the old timer has it in Blazing Saddles.

Well, help might finally be at hand from Trump’s America, from small-town Colorado. A new gun law is in place. Teachers keen on extreme violence can now take a course in shooting people, being an “armed first responder”.

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