This particular posting is more a news item than anything, at least news to me and vindication of my blog Les Disparus of 10th October 2011 when I said Mr Mike Barber’s star was still twinkling. For all new parents, those who have only known the despot Kearney, Mike Barber was the very able, approachable and decent man who was the headmaster of St Bede’s College prior to Kearney and his mate Father Ted, Tim Hopkins, the florid Quinlan’s hit man, organised the putsch that saw Barber leave in June 2011 fed up with the constant politicking of the two sidewinders.
Mr Barber is now the Deputy Head of St Edmond’s, Ware in Hertfordshire, the oldest Catholic school in the country and one that for performance and prestige knocks Bede’s into a cocked hat. It has more saints in its alumni than Bede’s has rock and roll musicians and BBC men in its list. So the florid Quinlan’s letter to parents on 10th June 2011 saying that Mr Barber wanted to get back to classroom teaching as soon as possible does not now seem to ring true. Not that, of course, you would expect the florid Quinlan to tell the truth in these matters; after all he is a monsignor of all that is good and holy. So fair play to Mr Barber for rising above the turgid nonsense that ejects itself from the mouths of this vicious, vindictive trio of Quinkearnhop and their selected nodders on the Board of Governors. It does not seem to me that Mr Barber wants to remove himself from management at all.
On another note Mr Kearney so I have been informed, fed up with my sniping, is out to get me. I understand that he called the staff together the other day and told the assembled not to worry because he was getting the strong arm of the law onto me and he has forbidden the reading of my blog by all the staff and pupils. I presume he has done this from an educationalist’s point of view because there are so many spelling mistakes and poor syntax in my text that make my stories poor bedroom reading material for his swots at Maine Road or should I say Eastlands now.
Well best of luck with your efforts Danny and many more happy years of teaching Slovakian centre halves.