The race for the Christmas number one is in the final stages with a pop number from Girls Aloud battling it out with a Christmas advert theme from Gabrielle Aplin and the Hillsborough charity single from the Justice Collective. But here at the Guardian Teacher Network we have a late entry to the race - a recently penned lament dedicated to Mr Gove from history and politics teacher (and NUT member) Debbie Bogard. Now all we need is a collection of celeb former teachers to get together to perform it Band Aid style - Sting on vocals, Stephen Fry on drums and maybe a little bit of Greg Davies on bass. All we need is Gary or Louis to coach them...
Imagine Debbie's lyrics below sung to the tune of Beauty School Dropout.
Michael Gove - drop out, that's what we're asking you to do
Michael Gove - drop out, and take your pedagogical-bashing with you
We've had enough of your posturing, the rhetoric of getting tougher
Pumping money into pet projects, leaving the rest of us to suffer
Govey get moving, and take your free schools with you
What are you proving? Take the ebacc and academies too
Well, it's time to write you out of this predictably sad story
And protect the next generation from the ideological whims of a tory
Govey don't sweat it, you're just not cut out for this job
Better forget it, who wants their curriculum shaped by a snob?
Well clear your desk, we'll clean up the mess, this will come as little shock
Why don't you pack it in and go back to Murdoch?
Govey don't blow it, don't put our good advice to shame
Mikey you know it, even the NASUWT would say the same
It's time to leave, no time to grieve, we're giving you the sack
Time to pack your bags and go back to being a hack
Michael Gove – drop out, go back to Murdoch
(to fade)
Debbie Bogard teaches history and politics at City and Islington Sixth Form College in London.
