Woodard Corporation: Mainly Christian Ethos?

Pinched from a correspondent on the TES website:

I've seen that bit in the Bible saying a man shouldn't lie with another man and many people have quoted it like it is the be all and end all of morality. Gay people don't choose to be gay, but damn it they shouldn't be made to feel lower than anyone else about something they have no control over.

If I'm going to hell, who's coming with me? Do these holy words apply to anyone?

DEUTERONOMY 22:13-21
If it is discovered that a bride is not a virgin, the Bible demands that she be executed by stoning immediately.
DEUTERONOMY 22:22
If a married person has sex with someone else's husband or wife, the Bible commands that both adulterers be stoned to death.
MARK 10:1-12
Divorce is strictly forbidden in both Testaments, as is remarriage of anyone who has been divorced.
LEVITICUS 18:19
The Bible forbids a married couple from having sexual intercourse during a woman's period. If they disobey, both shall be executed.
MARK 12:18-27
If a man dies childless, his widow is ordered by biblical law to have intercourse with each of his brothers in turn until she bears her deceased husband a male heir.
DEUTERONOMY 25:11-12
If a man gets into a fight with another man and his wife seeks to rescue her husband by grabbing the enemy's genitals, her hand shall be cut off and no pity shall be shown her.

Quite a few people going to Hell then, or shall we just disregard the whole thing as a bunch of rules written 2000 years ago?

McDonalds A levels

From the WSTA weblog
We have news that McDonalds are introducing their own A levels and we have an exclusive preview of the paper:

Is McDonalds?

a) a vicious anti-union low wage employer?
b) a fast track to a heart attack?
c) fun in a bun?
d) animal cruelty incarnate

If your answer was (c) congratulations you now have a Mc A
level.

(before the Millionaire McLawyers get on the McPhone this is
a joke of course)

Woodard Corporation wages class War in Sussex

Teachers are up in arms about the proposal for the unelected Woodard Corporation to take over three schools in West Sussex.

The stated aim of the Woodard Corporation is Class War. Its founder Nathaniel Woodard explicitly sought to educate the middle classes to keep the working classes in their place

'... till the Church educates and trains up the middle classes, she can never effectually educate the poor'

One hesitates to think what sort of admission policy these far-right Christians might have. Teaching on controversial issues like gay marriage, abortion or God forbid women priests would be a nightmare.

However they are not having it all their own way. The following press statement from the West Sussex Teachers Association suggests opposition is growing:

Teachers in West Sussex are planning a campaign against proposals to turn three of the County's secondary schools into Academies, starting with a Public Meeting on Thursday 7 February at 7.30pm in the Assembly Rooms, Worthing. Dave Thomas, local Secretary for the National Union of Teachers, said:
We are opposed to Academies in West Sussex because:
they undermine democratically controlled Local Authorities,
they put schools in the hands of unaccountable sponsors,
they threaten teachers' pay and working conditions,
they will introduce three more schools of a faith character, with minimal consultation and a reduction in parents' choice.
At a meeting of West Sussex NUT held on Wed 16th Jan, the following motion was passed unanimously:
'WSTA is opposed to the establishment of Academies in West Sussex. It further deplores the lack of consultation by the Woodard Corporation and WSCC with the staff and their representatives in the schools concerned, namely, Boundstone CC, Kings Manor CC and Littlehampton CC.'
The meeting was attended by NUT members from all three schools and from other schools throughout West Sussex.
The public meeting is open to parents, teachers, support staff and others with an interest in state education to allow them an opportunity to air their concerns.