Just in case anyone's interested in some balance:
http://news.becta.org.uk/display.cfm...658&catID=1633
which doesn't mention pigs, Asians or Muslims at all, unsurprisingly.
Now for some investigation. It is just possible that, given that they were shortlisting four out of goodness knows how many products that the whole thing is a PR blitz by Shoo-fly designed to use the magic words 'Muslims' and 'political correctness' to cover up for noses being out of joint at not being shortlisted by BECTA. Notably, close reading of the story reveals that the whole thing derives from feedback from BECTA to Shoo-fly, which was in turn revealed to the BBC by Merlin John of, er,
http://www.merlinjohnonline.net who got it from, er, Shoo-fly. Good publicity for Mr. John here, who has previous in being critical of BECTA and has recently struck out on his own, which doubtless had no bearing on his decision to stick an attention-grabbing story on his own blog.
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The Three Little Cowboy Builders, a highly entertaining and funny digital 3D pop-up book that had already been voted Best Primary Resource and Innovation in Education by headteachers in the Education Resources Awards was denounced in over-the-top "politically correct" terms by the Becta judges.
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So much for blaming teachers, they gave it an award. Ho hum. Does anyone else think Mr. John's article reads like an advert? Cynical old me.
Without access to the *full* original feedback we have no way of knowing what weight was given to the pig or builder aspects of the story, so we're in some way flying a bit blind here (and the BBC is being rubbish at reporting it in a balanced way, by the way, they shouldn't allow themselves to be used as a one-sided mouthpiece).
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im used to having what I say re written in current affairs I just speak my mind
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Yes, sorry, I did correct the spelling and punctuation. The meaning, however, I left intact. I applaud your good sense in throwing in the towel before stepping into Xac and my carefully constructed Bigot Traps, though.