Not Their Finest Hour By Lisa Fabrizio

"Sir Winston Churchill once said, 'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.' Although he did indeed write, as well as make, much history, it will be of no avail to him personally now that he has been dropped from the official list of persons required for study by English school students from the ages of 11 to 14.

In an effort to improve the minds of their youth, in lieu of studying the man who was dubbed 'The Greatest Briton of Them All' in a 2002 BBC poll, they will instead concentrate on 'debt management, the environment and healthy eating.' That's right. One of the men most responsible for English still being spoken in England is to be shunted into the dustbin of schoolroom history in favor of more time to teach the kiddies about the evils of global warming and red meat. "

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