OBON shite supported by UK Govt
https://twitter.com/educationgovuk/status/1406990765906145281?s=19
The link starts off with a post from the UK government Department of Education, which is of course the education department for England & Wales, since education in Scotland is devolved to Holyrood, which opens with "
We're encouraging schools across the UK to celebrate One Britain One Nation Day on 25 June". Which won't work where I live (East Dunbartonshire) because schools here (and in several other areas of Scotland) break up for the summer holidays at 1pm on the 24th, and in most other areas of Scotland they break up around lunchtime on the 25th - and many secondary school kids just skip the last half-day anyway.
The irony here is that these 'One Britain One Nation' proponents presumably forgot to check with the Scottish Government that schools across this mythical 'One Britain One Nation' would all be open for business on their preferred date - and this information is easy to find on-line, in just the same way that I have just discovered that schools close for summer in England & Wales at the end of July: a full month later than schools here in Scotland close for the summer holidays.
So a UK Government supported ''One Britain One Nation' initiative involving "
schools across the UK" fails to take into account that school holidays in Scotland have always started a month earlier than in England & Wales: it would be funny if it wasn't so fucking pathetic - another illustration of why some of us here in Scotland have contempt for the UK, and we want out.
