One man’s jihad is just another man’s phonics

17th June 2011, 1:00am

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One man’s jihad is just another man’s phonics

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Following their specialist training (“Inspectors will be trained to spot classroom extremists”, 10 June), will inspectors be able to distinguish between would-be jihadi teachers promoting terrorism and wide-eyed extremist teachers promoting synthetic phonics?

Once spotted by a vigilant Ofsted team, will both Ayman al-Zawahiri and Nick Gibb be banned from English classrooms?

Professor Colin Richards, Spark Bridge, Cumbria.

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