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2018, 5*, blue, cleaning, ducks-in-a-circle, investment, management, managerialism, performance management, public service, quiet, reform, results-led education, silence, speech, teacher, teaching, vacuum-cleaner
one day
some poor bastard
got handed a broom
and was told to
clean the place up
but I’m a teacher
he said no you’re
a janitor but we’ll
pay you well if you
keep it clean and quiet
so he pushed some dust
around and lo when
he turned round it was
there behind him
so he invested in a
state-of-some-bastard-
industry vacuum-cleaner
sucked up everything
that wasn’t bolted
down, whirling around
in the drum all in the
same direction and then
switched the power
off; everything was
quiet and squeaky clean
and all the right colours
and he wondered at the
eiree silence but not
for long as he drove about
in his new blue porsche
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
blue wormhole: I don’t need to go out / onto the balcony to see behind me / to know what’s going on
management & performance management & teaching wormhole: someone’s got to do it
managerialism wormhole: I turn to wake up
results-led education wormhole: what wounds have you got?
silence wormhole: fifty-eight // and silent prayers
speech wormhole: presence
mlewisredford 