I was going to let the onslaught on the piss poor management at St Bede’s College in Manchester have a rest for the summer and let old DK and Florid have some breathing space to think up some more hare-brained schemes to make us despair even further during the forthcoming Christmas Term starting in September but Sean Carr’s comment today in my posting of 25th June 2013 entitled Comment From A Bedian Parent intrigued me.
Sean tells us that there are a recalcitrant bunch of parents who have come together. Parents who are not at all happy with the way things are going, not at all happy with the quality they are getting for the hard earned fees they have to cough up every term. These parents it seems are demanding something better than what Kearney and Florid are willing to give them, although all they are asking for is what it says on the packet.
Kearney seems to be ignoring them and calling them a bunch of ingrates. Surely he, it would appear, is best suited to know what quality and type of education to give to the children of these renegades. What do they know, after all, they are only parents, as thick as pig shit most of them and I, Mr Daniel Kearney, Headmaster of St Bede’s College in Manchester, am the professional with God and might on my side. But we will see, because Danny, these parents are the people who pay you, the piper, to play their tune.
Now it seems that these disaffected parents are determined but are meeting complete disdain from the management and I am suggesting and it is only a suggestion, that they widen their scope and use this forum as a means of advertising their cause. For it is better to let all parents understand the arguments and points of view that you pioneers are putting forward. There are many disaffected fee payers out there with no apparent ear to listen to their worries and fears and it just might help everyone, if you brave people who at this moment are doing all the running, open up, advertise your cause and let others in to help, because very shortly you few could well become many.
Without meaning to blow any trumpets, it is this medium and as far as I can gather nobody or nothing else has brought the atrocious management of the College to everyone’s eyes and ears. It is this medium which has been shouting for months for parent power to come to the fore, I doubted whether it was possible, I doubted whether anybody had the spunk to stand up to these destroyers of history and quality but I am bloody glad that a few of you had the bravery and determination to stand up to the plate when it mattered. So it would be appropriate for you small bunch of pathfinders to come on board and make Kearney et al realise you absolutely mean business. This blog, I understand, is DK’s favoured matinal devourment even before he starts the crossword in the Opus Dei Chronicle. He prefers to get most of the bad news over with first.
So please you pioneers of parent action, tell me your aims, publicise your reasons for disaffection. Get it all out in the open. Behind closed doors and non-transparency are the tools of the Church, the Diocese and the Governors, they should not be your tools. You can contact me privately on malpas46@eircom.net or comment publicly on the blog if you wish.
And before I go, I would just like to comment on Sean Carr’s other point in his comment this morning about Mr Berry’s and Mr Loader’s leaving mass last Friday evening in the College and the obvious absence of DK and Florid from same. Excuses will not do for their non-appearance. It was a flagrant lack of respect to two men who had given the greater part of their lives to the College and who had carried out their duties and care with aplomb. No matter how much the florid cleric and the miserable headmaster might have thought of their two underlings, last Friday evening was building bridges time. They failed in this simple task, just as they have failed in every task put tothem in the last few years.
One reader of this blog has recently commented why on earth would a headmaster be put in charge of a school to run it into the ground, it does not make sense. Well here is your answer dear reader, DK and Quinlan are slowly edging the College along the road to perdition. Beware Mr Kearney you are at the gates of hell there is no going back for you I’m afraid.