This just surfaced on an fb primary school page
I’ve not seen it before,1973,the year we won the cup at Gunnersbury park.
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No it’s not me in the suit
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Did you take the photo?
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That football looks like your old lump though
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Really ? My word.
Very weird,could work well for Saturday entertainment at lopwell whilst waiting for for the pizzas to be made though.
Lots of practise then; we’ll be workd champs by Saturday afternoon! 
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Thought the Vikings were coming through Hascosay Sound 
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They saw the toad in the hole, you’re feck’d
Dont know how that headline leader got past the editor… you have to open the link.
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I have mentioned this before, but I was taught how to read/write for a while in the early to mid 70’s using ITA and it somehow has messed up my spelling for life. I think not assisted by a year or two later changing schools and finding they were doing joined up writing when it was a brand new concept to me. Which means I am shit at spelling and my hand writing was always rubbish. I think most peoples is to be fair these days. The ITA was in a Oldham Council School and joined up writing (fountain pen) in a Rochdale School.
Anyway good article on it in the Grauniad.
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My wife, Gill, also went through this experiment in Glossop (Derbyshire) and still curses it for her sometimes wayward spelling. I wonder how it was decided where it was rolled out and which schools took part. It wasn’t a thing, as far as I recall, where I grew up in Solihull.
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I went through this too, again in Oldham, and when I moved to Widnes aged about 6, the teachers there had no idea about ITA and thought I had some kind of learning disability.
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Bob Hickman. Can’t even begin to describe how off his noodle this naughty little elf man truly is.
Well worth checking out his channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@God-has-entered-into-my-body
Another victim (and I don’t use this word lightly), of this stupid failed experiment here.
It was especially difficult for me because my mum had already taught me to read by age 4 - well enough that I could read Enid Blyton “Adventure” series unillustrated paperbacks alone before I started school.
This was arrogantly ignored by the teaching-cretins at Primary, and this childish gibberish forced upon me. Knowing it was wrong, and being an awkward cunt even at that tender age, I refused to cooperate, and so was branded ‘backward’ and ‘retarded’ (both words I heard used about me).
The effect on my language skills was very limited, but the effect on my entire school career was devastating. From 1968 I was streamed into the most backward classes, permanently earmarked as ‘backwards’ in ALL fields, meaning I went to the worst schools and got the most useless teachers, when what I needed was the exact opposite.
ITA blighted my whole life, and I’m confident I’m not alone.
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Shows it was fairly well spread, got the same feeling from reading through some of the comments to the article. Although he was a cunt and a bully in many ways, my step dad did help make a difference to my education and I did OK in the end. Although I didn’t complete my A Levels/go to Uni as I left home because of him. However nearly 42 years later still one of my better decision in life.
Mum and step dad are still with us, although he is still self centred. I hope I don’t become the same in the next 25 years, but suspect I might.
If you haven’t by now, you won’t.
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