Ah, a story for our times. And I think you know how it’s going to go. There was this junior school in Yorkshire which had houses named after various figures in English history; Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, Lord Nelson. And then? You can take it from here.
Some very agitated pupils got together and sent round a petition which frightened the headteacher so much that he renamed the houses?
Well, you’d be right except for one thing.
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