Comic story in The Times about Watercliffe Meadow Primary in Sheffield. Apparently the word "school" has far too many negative connotations for pupils and parents, so the received wisdom is that it should now be referred to as "a place for learning."Read about it here.
The Times also has the following list of alternative job titles:
Waste removal engineer Dustman
Domestic engineer Housewife
Knowledge navigator Teacher
Stock replenishment adviser Shelf stacker
Dispatch services facilitator Postman
Leisure services administrator Masseuse/masseur
Flueologist Chimney sweep
Head of verbal communications Receptionist/secretary
Environment improvement technician Cleaner
Education centre nourishment production assistant Dinner lady
4 comments:
You laugh, but when I worked for Sainsbury's, ooh, seven or eight years ago, I wasn't a shelf-stacker, I was a stock replenishment something-or-other. Assistant, possibly.
Classy. My first job was as a kebab chef, or "head of elephant leg distribution."
Surely, a school is able to educate their pupils to understand the true meaning of the word... for now they've got "place of learning" but that's probably got negative connotations too, you'd think...
Some cleaners in France are known as techniciens de surfaces, surface technicians, and I am NOT kidding.
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