Well it has all been happening rather fast on the Bedian front since I wrote my last posting on 17th January 2014 entitled Even More On St Bede’s College In Manchester. That same day the Senior Deputy Headteacher as she now calls herself, the honourable and elegant, Sandra Pike, wrote the above letter to parents enclosing the ISI report and saying how pleased she was with the report without mentioning the fact that the teaching was only rated good (ISI speak for not bad) and the leadership was piss poor. She bluffs her way through the real problem of safeguarding; it is as though she was speaking to a class of kids and not real people with real money.
She asks for a meeting of parents to discuss any problems from the report, for an hour on the 27th January, (I hope it went well) and for an hour on 6th February. I do wonder whether these problems that the school faces can be discussed openly and adequately in an hour but it is certainly an altogether different approach to that yawning, eyes rolling, arse scratching, paternalistic approach of Quinlan and Kearney last summer to a group of concerned and agitated parents. I would ask any parent who attended the meeting on the 27th January or is going to attend the one on 6th February to contact me so that I can fully understand the feelings aroused.
In neither letter as she mentioned the whereabouts of one, Daniel Kearney, who seems to be hanging on to his job of Senior but Absent Headteacher by the tip of his foreskin. Behind the scenes of this and the following letter, chaos reigns, with no captain on the bridge, the ship is heading for the rocks. Then in the last few days the BBC must have alerted the school to the report that is appended below and which I explained in a previous blog was being filmed on the 14th January. So the fragrant Pike went to paper again and sent this load of shite out to all parents
Old Pikey says that Modern Bede’s exists in a very different society today than 50 or 60 years ago but the honest truth is that The College to a large extent remains anchored in the past and has the same arrogant approach as regards Safeguarding of Children as it did in Duggan’s day. The school does not give a toss for parents and kids are just a currency while the leadership of the school just sail blindly on. Nero, fiddles and Rome come to mind. Read both letters again and tell me whether she cares, she has not addressed one problem that the ISI Report high-lighted. I do not really blame her, she is just biding time, her end is nigh or definitely should be. The canker in the school should be eradicated, all senior management including Quinlan has to be removed for a new and fresh start to be made by a new bishop, Brain wants out, he thinks all these problems are not his and why should he suffer. Again his lethargy is not apparent to himself but if he had acted correctly some years ago, today’s problems could have been alleviated considerably.
Then a kind of bombshell dropped, the BBC, those of Savile fame released the following item on Friday 31st January. I say a kind of a bombshell in that it reported things already reported in the Sunday Times of 12th January and which the BBC recorded on 14th January. I thought I’d missed it but here it is full of daft questions and inuendo, another piece of shit on a real live problem, but at least it put it out for the numb-skulls who cannot think beyond the first full stop.
This from the BBC on 31/1/14:
Here’s the news report:
And if that gets taken down for any reason, here’s the link on the BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25987513
The lad featured in that film I have known on and off for 56 years, he was treated abominably by Duggan and two other priests, Hamilton and Mulholland, raped repeatedly and for him to come out publicly was an unbelievable piece of bravery. He told me this morning that he cannot bring himself to look at the film. If you could read his sworn testimony you would cry, he has lived with that memory, as have all the victims, for all that time. Their lives have been one long car crash. I can only say that for three years now I have been alternating between tears and massive determination to get these lads stories heard and up come the BBC with trumps of a nature. I cannot thank that dogshite corporation for anything.