This has been opened up by a Tweet. This is what KT Hopkins actually said on Twitter.
Mums hearts are broken by school bullies. Yet schools continue to support these animals and ignore those keen to learn. Let me at them.
The Telegraph had said:
Michael Gove: teachers should punish children with litter duty, lines and more.
I don’t know what planet either of them are on, but I did take some satisfaction out of the video doing the rounds on Twitter of Michael Gove falling on his jacksy.
I could whack myself with a long wooden stick, or sit with my mouth open in horror at how I think the things that come out of these two people’s mouths really need to be projectily vomited in the general direction of the nearest waste paper bin. What bothers me about the self imposed upper echelons of our society, who clearly think the rest of us are the dirt under their fingernails, isn’t what they say so much, as how it makes me FEEL.
- I FEEL angry that Katie Hopkins is so nasty about almost everyone apart from herself.
- I FEEL angry for all the struggling kids at school whose behaviour escalates as they are unsupported, but who will get more lines instead of help, or even worse, be humiliated by picking up their classmakes litter. How to trash a child’s self-esteem is more what I’d call the sanctions mooted.
- I FEEL sad for Katie Hopkins family. How awful to have a mother who thinks the rest of us are so crap at everything.
- I FEEL incredulous that Katie Hopkins can find it in herself to be so nasty about children.
I want to take Katie’s statement and break it down:
Mums hearts are broken by school bullies. Yet schools continue to support these animals and ignore those keen to learn. Let me at them.
- Mums hearts are broken by school bullies. How does that happen then? Who cares what mums hearts are? It’s the kids that count.
- Schools continue to support. Well, yes, that is their job. Each child is a living, breathing thing that deserves a chance.
- Animals – well, all I can say about that one from Katie, is “what you say is what you are.”
- Let me at them. Please, please do go and take some classes in inner city schools, try to teach the children who’ve heard you call them animals, and see how well you sort them out.
I have three children who all struggle at school.
Between them, Gove and Hopkins would technically call them animals that need to pick up litter as punishment and write copious lines while other kids learn.
I just call them kids who deserve the same future as any other kid. It’s not the kids fault that schools do not have the funding to support them properly.
Instead of targeting the kids, why don’t they do something novel and find the ways to help all kids meet their potential instead of blaming them.