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Ofsted is run by aliens
09/05/2008 by April First.
Ms Handright emailed in sick, having come out in spots. Janice put the word around that it probably had nothing to do with the package Ms Handright had brought into the office. I nurtured Ziggy all day in case he/she had caught anything from Ms Handright.
Meanwhile parents were on the phone within seconds demanding knowledge of the plague which had hit the school. After a brief consultation we decided to offer them the chance to trade their child’s place at the school for a place in any other school. We agreed there should be no fee for this service, save the normal £100 facilitation charge. One parent asked if it were true that the next series of Torchwood would be filmed at the school, and if so how he could arrange for his daughter to be in the series. Apparently she can sing and dance.
In the interest of efficiency we measured the number of teaching staff who dropped in for a chat during the course of the day: 17.
A committee of parents has, apparently, raised £25 towards finding Bertram a new home. We thanked them but told them there was a legend dating back to the foundation of the school which has it that if the school frog should ever leave, the school’s hot water system would fail, so we really couldn’t let him go.
Ziggy seems to be quite tame and enjoying his (or her) regular round of lettuce.
At 4pm the BBC phoned asking if they could film several episodes of the next series of Torchwood in the school – to which we agreed, stating that the head’s study would be an ideal place for the dare-devil team’s office and headquarters. They also asked if they could buy the rights to have the Softorque software in the show. Patiently I explained that anyone could go out and buy Softorque, it was advertised on the internet, but that it didn’t destroy aliens, it simply helped the school keep all its school policies up to date, and thus get better Ofsted grades.
“And this ‘Ofsted’ said the BBC woman. That’s run by aliens right?”
I agreed that this was exactly the case.
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