The AQA, quoted in this morning's Guardian, appear to have backed down form their instruction to schools to destroy copies of an anthology containing Carol Ann Duffy's Education for Leisure. I went to check and the AQA's advice has been amended to read as follows:
'As candidates are half way through their GCSE course, Education For Leisure remains a key poem for this cohort as it would be unfair to remove it at this point. However, teachers are advised that the poem will not be a named poem in summer 09 examinations. This means that any centres who are concerned about the subject matter of the poem need not teach it. Centres will receive clean copies of the anthology for candidates to use in the examination. This anthology will contain Education for Leisure without the accompanying illustration.'
What, I wonder, was the 'accompanying illustration'?
