FASCINATING AIDA : very funny OFSTED song for teachers

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FASCINATING AIDA are: Dillie Keane in the blue. Adele Anderson in red. And, in yellow, the glorious Liza Pulman. ...

[@dianeweaver3928]

As a retired teacher from the US, I loved this video. I retired early because of similar issues. I didn't know my sisters and brothers across the pond were suffering in similar fashion. So sorry for all of us. Great, great, great performance.

[@sinephase]

Bureaucracy in a nutshell, I guess. It doesn't leave any room for the professional judgement of individuals and becomes authoritarian.

[@martinidry6300]

I don't know of ANY teachers who haven't taken early retirement here "across the pond". They are almost entirely WORTHLESS, UNSAKEABLE & over stocked with women. In short, they're in it for a soft life, salary, too many holidays, abysmal standards, Left wing everything, discrimination of boys, course work over exams, entitlement & arrogance. My grandfather, born in 1903, was born in grinding poverty in Mayo, Ireland. A candlelit cottage and exacting discipline got him a Headmastership there. He spent 4 hours per weekday night marking exercise books, 8 hours on the weekend. He was a teacher for idealism, duty, unbending standards and honour. He would be destroyed today for this. Teachers have produced the generations that are destroying the West from within. Your surprise that Europe/UuGreat Britain the Disunited Queendom has replicated America's terminally diseased outlook on education is typical of unaware Yanks. You Yanks infect and corrode EVERYTHING. PS: The Internet is being used here. It's a British invention.

[@iainsar66]

We're seeing them later this month, and I've just shared this with my wife as she's a teacher and it sums up how precisely how the staff room feels!

[@WolfyGreen]

This has brightened my day, Far more than I can say, I'm sad to make confession, That my former, dear profession, Is crucified in each and every way.

[@susanjeffay3851]

Growing up on Gilbert and Sullivan I can appreciate the rhyme- plus as a retired teacher, enjoyed it the most!

[@henryroscoe2464]

That’s the best definition of OFSTED I’ve heard in a very long time!

[@finlaygordonmccusker2855]

Being a Spanish teacher, I feel their pain. I'm so glad they cleared out Ofsted's meaning for me.

[@dirkbrad]

Spot on! Reminds me of the old teacher joke...."What's the difference between a cosmetic surgeon and an OFSTED inspector? One tucks up features,the other....."

[@mr.summerset8054]

Ian Purdham Fucks up futures ? Is that it, dying to know

[@232nightowl]

@@mr.summerset8054 no fucks up teachers

[@MiniTheVinx]

@@mr.summerset8054 It's a Spoonerism.

[@dianaroberts3740]

Absolutely fabulous-so very true. The delivery is fantastic. I've been laughing my socks off. Retired after teaching for 39 years. Struggling to share it on FB though.

[@oliver123452]

I absolutely love this video. It came after a very hard week of a pre OFSTED OFSTED which had the staff in tears and not of laughter either! However, this has brought tears of joy. Thank you.

[@christinesinkins2862]

Love Fascinating Aida. First heard 'Cheap Flights' - inspired, and then 'Dogging' and OFTSED. Just brilliant. Would love to go to a gig whilst they're on tour. Magic.

[@jonmapp6944]

They're touring at the moment. Wen't to see them yesterday, amazing stuff.

[@christinesinkins2862]

Jon Mapp Glad you enjoyed it John. Noticed they will be in the Nantwich area early next year. I'll be certain to catch them.

[@PeterGarnett007]

They are brilliant live. I had the privilege of catch one of their dates in Cape Town a few years back. Also got to chat a bit after the show and get my "Cheap Flights" souvenir DVD autographed. I play it regularly. It's a hoot every time

[@castlering]

In light of the tragic death of a headteacher recently, this song screams so much truth about how it is like for teachers and what they have to put up with. Hopefully, there is change as a result, but it shouldn't have been allowed to get to that position in the first place. First and foremost teachers - and pupils/students - are people, not robots with input and output. That just part of the problems due to OFSTED. Bravo to FA for this ditty.

[@ronandavid]

I was sent this song a few days ago and as a teacher I have to admit AND confess that this funny song hilariously conceals the true side of the teacher's profession! It's even worse nowadays!

[@ronandavid]

What was your question again? @@author7027

[@paullacey748]

These Ladies are Unique. Clever, Clever and Clever

[@gailbirchall2163]

Amazing voice, amazing lyrics and can see that these professionals love to take the rise out of the establishment, are not sour faced, serious establishment droids

[@pmadamson]

What a great song and so true. I am also retired after 35 years and my decision to finish 18 months early had nothing to do with children who were great for the full time I taught. Many teachers are getting out at the first opportunity and are a big loss to our children's future. What I don't understand is why the government don't seem to spot these problems

[@rollosinternet1853]

They do. They don't give sh*t, though.

[@joesprinks4215]

Absolutely Pricerless well done had me in stitches !

[@83BallroomBlitz]

What is the difference between an OFSTED inspector and a plastic surgeon? The surgeon tucks up features, whereas...

[@AngelaH2222]

should be recommended viewing for all aspiring teachers... so true to life..

[@sallymilkshake]

This brightened up a truly stressed out teacher's week! Thank you awesome ladies x

[@TheChipmunk2008]

This is so appropriate... RIP Ruth Perry

[@mikontisott]

So great to see the ladies still going strong, brilliant night out

[@caruuso]

That was a hell of a bass E♭ from the singer to the right.

[@G6JPG]

I believe Adele was at one time male, which probably helps with the base notes!

[@AECEntertainment]

@@G6JPG seriously?

[@G6JPG]

@@AECEntertainment Yes - see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%C3%A8le_Anderson; I presume she doesn't want to make anything of it, so I don't mention it unless, as here, it's relevant.

[@Hieronymous69]

Look up 'Prisoner of Gender'

[@R.a.t.t.y]

@@G6JPG I am male but once stood too close to the lift doors as they were closing - which helps me with the high notes.

[@timmeh1507]

Shame on Gove and Wilshaw for disliking this video! Brilliant stuff - shared with my colleagues who have been through the ordeal recently...

[@quietman482]

Just having been Ofsteded, this has really cheered me up!

[@SmR8008]

No change there in 9 years!

[@DerryPope]

Well, they have a death on their hands now.

[@paulflood9826]

I’m sending this to my deputy head tomorrow! I’m working in a ‘Requires Improvement’ school but thanks to this coronavirus shit, we’re going to miss our monitoring visit. At least something positive has come out of this!

[@SueMarilynLyle]

Absolutely brilliant as well as accurate. Full marks! Outstanding!

[@malcolmmaclenan8356]

After an OFSTED inspection, a staff member did an arrangement for the staff of, 'There's only one F in OFSTED' to the tune of the football chant!!

[@64offsuiter]

I've judged Mr Gove and decided that he requires improvement. It took me less than 20 minutes to realise this too!!! Maybe I should become an inspector.

[@downsman1]

This has proved, yet again, that the very best comedy is based on truth.

[@Orwic1]

As someone who taught at universities for decades, and had to lead preparations for the university versions of these inspections, I fully identify with these sentiments! (Even if we came out OK!)

[@marksims3904]

More relevant now than ever..........LOVE THIS XXX

[@101mosioatunya]

Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! I am so glad that I now know what OFSTED stands for :-))

[@PinkyOnTheGString]

I laughed and cried in equal measures at this. We've just been Ofshafted and this is so, so true. More power to your elbows, fair maids

[@wallydeschamps8664]

This is SO awesome, and SO spot on!!!

[@catherineh.832]

Superb! Saw you in concert last night. Absolutely WONDERFUL!

[@dunruden9720]

I'm a retired teacher. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

[@q.e.d.9112]

Retired Kiwi teacher here. For us this whole micro-management of teachers and bureaucratic notions of “teaching excellence” started in 1989 and has been going on ever since. I gave it away in 1995 when, frankly, they’d taken the joy out of teaching, were assessing kids to death, demanding ever more paperwork and endless after school meetings. They had also put a sinking lid on school budgets and staffing ratios. When I first started teaching, secondary schools were collegial places. There was hierarchy, of course, but you were treated as a professional partner in a joint enterprise. These days teachers are trusted by management about as much as a Walmart check out operator is trusted with their cash box.

[@trueaussie9230]

When the bean counters are running the show creativity is killed.

[@benking5488]

I love you, Fascinating Aida. Saw you in Coventry.... Suddenly New Zealand doesn't seem so boring.

[@01Epona]

Don't worry, we have ERO, I'm sharing this with family members who are teachers, and primary or secondary, they could easily relate

[@chloedodds8161]

I saw this last night, an absolutely amazing show!!

[@kingcurry6594]

I am a retired teacher (Physics, 32 years). This brilliant song is absolutely true. Wilshaw is out of touch and out of his depth; he should not be in charge of a major government body. He taught in the classroom for a minimal amount of time many years ago before going into management, thus having no idea whatsoever of the current challenges facing classroom teachers. His idea of an outstanding lesson is not mine. OFSTED needs abolishing with immediate effect - it is unfit for purpose.

[@toyotaprius79]

Spill. More. Tea

[@sandrabarrie7401]

Oh, so brilliant! Anybody got Adele's monologue on Academies which precedes this song in the current show? Again, very perceptive and so true.

[@leakycheese]

Brilliant!! I've always said Gove is a cupid stunt, but Jeremy Hunt works also :)

[@06kohlert]

Its a reference to Jeremy Hunt MP

[@G6JPG]

@@06kohlert Who was at one point culture secretary - and on one memorable morning, the inevitable Spoonerism was committed by not one but two well-known radio voices!

[@captlarry-3525]

This resonates all the way over here in California...

[@elizabethowens8548]

My sister in law is being slammed with work here in the upper midwest as well as managing elderly parents. Her phone is constantly buzzing. We'll be relieved when she retires because we don't want this stress to effect her health. Thank God she's sharp as a tack and can maneuver quickly

[@chrislom5288]

The writing is just sterling--all their stuff. Fantastic showpersonship

[@michaelgraziano4203]

Good to see the US isn't alone in this ridiculous "educational reform" situation.

[@annbeirne9583]

BRILLIANT I loved all of it but especially what OFSTED stood for and what to stickup his bum 🤣🤣

[@G6JPG]

I don't think I've ever heard as clear a diction as this - clearer even than Julie Andrews: there is absolutely no need for the captions! And in a patter song too.

[@trueaussie9230]

Just a thought. Maybe the 'captions' are to assist people for whom English is not their 1st language. Or possibly for the hearing impaired. It must be wonderful to live in your world, where anyone who is not exactly like you has no reason to exist. FYI - diction is not countable, ergo one cannot hear "such A clear diction". One simply hears 'such clear diction' - or enunciation.

[@karenpackham7920]

Just back from the Infants school where I'm a governor and which is undergoing the second day of an Ofsted inspection. God forbid that any governor - a voluntary role, Mr Gove, by the way - should have a paying job and a life which might prevent them from knowing and understanding every single aspect of the school! So thank you FA for cheering me up.

[@maninthemachine]

That 1st "HAPPY ONE" killed me 🤣

[@notgoingout2234]

Gorgeous dresses!

[@suzannesadiiqa]

My sister has just retired from being a special needs teacher, her weekends and holidays were almost wholly taken up with weekly/monthly reports for idiots who would never read them and couldn't understand them if they did! Get rid of these PC tossers and let our teachers get back to doing what they trained for which isn't justifying someones' cushy billet in central government.

[@bighands69]

Sue Harvey I am sorry but the people want socialism and this is what they get in return they cannot complain. What did they think was going to happen when new labour came to power. And then new conservatives.

[@jamesofarcadia]

you realise that the opitome of these values are in the privately sponsored Academies. So stupid linking bureaucracy and politics to a populist socialism that doesn't exist.

[@tspencer62]

I have a special needs son and so I love all special needs teachers. Your sister has done something really worth while. Be proud that she was there on the front line, where it counts. But I agree with your sentiment.

[@WCSann]

This is totally wonderful! Loved it!

[@dodajohn-baptist3558]

Hysterical and ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh how it all hits a nerve. I'm sure we could all add a stanza or two! Keep up the good work! We all are!

[@suzanneedwards7085]

Amazing and so true - - the 'Gove' should be sent this

[@Fledhyris]

Very funny! My son's school is just having an inspection and my mother is a retired teacher so I can see things from two points of view. Probably nobody except the government can ever see things from Ofsted's pov!

[@JAY-lo3sx]

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC 👏👏

[@tobyrose6906]

Brilliant. ..wonder where they are now ..

[@fp4man542]

They will be starting their 40th anniversary tour later this year.

[@SafeTrucking]

Brilliant. Come to Australia, ladies!

[@peterpryor3217]

very entertaining and I think that Teachers around the world can relate to this as they are not sufficiently supported by the decision makers.

[@robbiedixon2833]

Saw in concert last night & can highly recommend

[@TCSC47]

Spot on and brilliant!

[@rw8733]

Absolutely magnificent 😅

[@carolinedownes7407]

Absolutely brill. I have a cousin who would be shouting from the rooftops at this. Keep up the good work !

[@ScunneredMan]

BRILLIANT. What more can you say.

[@valshield670]

This is brilliant and is right on the money!

[@frankmazacs495]

Brilliant and amazingly accurate

[@trevorlong3003]

Very good indeed!

[@jameslynch5716]

Its the same in Canada.

[@benjaminenglish4625]

I saw these at a gig a few days ago. If you want a bloody good laugh please go to one of their gigs. They're quite mad you know. Brilliant night out

[@andysongs9485]

What an amazing voice. Great song too. 🙂

[@paullannon8280]

If you look up "Posh Totty" in the dictionary you should see a picture of Liza Pulman. The woman is stunning.

[@potdog1000]

love it, really love e it

[@grahamlait1969]

The difficulty with teaching as a profession is that politicians who want to make a name for themselves love becoming Education Minister, because they can shuffle everything about, faff about with the curriculum, re-stack the furniture, bring in a new examination system, make everybody jump through new and bigger hoops, achieve precisely sod all and still move up their own particular greasy parliamentary pole.

[@sadoldgit313]

Nothing changes in 2021!

[@michaelflinn7784]

Love them

[@marykarnstedt3024]

O_M_G_! It's the same in the US! Is there no hope for the children of the world?

[@thexalon]

Well, it's a bit different: Instead of OFSTED, we have the DOE, or Damned Official Excrement!

[@madgeordie4469]

@@thexalon Different letters, same intention - to destroy the teaching profession and utterly eradicate any joy in learning.

[@williamthurl2607]

As one who has been shafted by an Ofsted inspection and a dishonest unfeeling Headmaster I endorse the feelings expressed here 200% !

[@catkin3]

Just brilliant 👏 👌 😀 👍

[@feraltimberwolf550]

Very clever ladies! Lol.

[@trevorlong3003]

It’s good!

[@roblloyd1879]

Brilliant!

[@stevewaters449]

Sadly this is VERY RELEVANT this year, following the death of a head teacher who took her own life following an inspection 😢

[@CountryBoy749]

Was slightly disappointed they didn't do this one at Tunbridge Wells on Saturday night.

[@liamkennedy299]

Brilliant!!!

[@veganviewer49]

Brilliant work ladies!

[@LizLascelles55]

Absolutely brilliant and oh so true!

[@riverreasteve]

Brilliant

[@jeanhawken4482]

Love it

[@nazirkhalifa5377]

Bravo, Outstanding ❤

[@mikegrigg11]

Brill !!

[@AnneEBury]

had a Fabulous evening watching the new show last night - go, if you can... can't wait for the new DVD and to see more clips here. Got to see "We're next", "Boomerang kids" and a fantastic take on today's youth, amongst many other wonderful new ones. And 3 new beautifully touching wistful songs that brought tears to my eyes. Thanks FA - a wonderful evening! :-D

[@xaxa10100]

Saw them tonight . Just Brilliant!!

[@DeirdreCatherineDoyle]

Got to know my students in new school. Was told had to sit with them in total silence in 'detention'. Did Spike Milligan (Feck that) and we did more work in detention than in the class! Give kids a chance for the Love of God and teachers? Very Much So. All my 'bunked off' students passed every exam ... well done them.

[@opheliaismyname9180]

This is about right. The primary I attended is in special measures and OFSTED visited recently. They started gushing about the sports clubs. Which the head cancelled months ago

[@saltspringrailway3683]

Very early on in my teaching career a respected teacher took me to the huge waste bins outside and showed me what we did with the reams of notes the poor sods in the elementary school had passed on to us.

[@user-hs6px3wl4l]

This is so funny 😂 can’t wait to see them

[@infinitysearcher8858]

Brilliant without reservation.

[@EyesofAsgaard]

Impressive E2 from the contralto!

[@rentonpamela]

+EyesofAsgaard she was born a man then transitioned to a woman after puberty so her voice had dropped into a traditional male range though in other songs shows she sings pretty high so her range must be at least two octaves.

[@EyesofAsgaard]

+pamelala Jane Ah, impressive nonetheless.

[@hugolindum7728]

“She” is genetically a man. What is more impressive is the upper range.

[@alexandrapedersen829]

@@hugolindum7728 She has most likely taken hormones, which alter the voice.

[@Biowoman.]

We watched this in lectures at University xD

[@NROS2012]

No. Probably because it's actually not a send-up or exaggeration, but in fact, completely true.

[@Biowoman.]

+NROS2012 sorry but what? I only said we watched this as Uni...Just be confused why you said 'no'

[@michaelking5934]

I detest political incorrectess.........so this is brilliant and so refreshing........I am 78 yrs young.......lgo girls, go 😂