Gary Glitter school scandal
p2pnet news view Music:- GCSE is short for General Certificate of Secondary Education and it’s an academic qualification awarded in a specified subject, “generally taken in a number of subjects by students aged 14-16 in secondary education in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland,” says the Wikipedia.
In other words, it’s an important exam and Gary Glitter hit I’m The Leader Of The Gang was included in GCSE coursework.
But ‘was’ is the operative word because, “Child abuse campaigners, teaching groups and parents reacted with fury – concerned Glitter would earn royalties as pupils bought the record,” says The Sun.
The chant from Gary Glitter’s hit Rock and Roll (Part II) is heard at sports stadiums around the world, but especially in the US, said p2pnet in 2005, continuing:
“Now Glitter, 61, who’s real name is Paul Gadd, faces death from a firing squad, “or decades in a squalid jail if he is found guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl in Vietnam,” says the Times Online.
“He’s already been jailed in Britain after admitting downloading more than 4,000 images of children, some as young as two, on his laptop computer, says the story. ‘The pictures showed boys and girls being sexually abused, tortured, bound, gagged and blindfolded’.”
The questionable Glitter question has been dropped but, “there’s a problem,” says The Guardian.
“The papers have already been sent out. The kids have already got them. They’re probably all – God help us – listening to Gary Glitter as I type. The AQA [Assessment and Qualifications Alliance] says they are reissuing the papers with Giltter taken off. But I know that the first thing I’d have done as a student faced with a teacher suggesting gently that I shouldn’t listen to a particular pop song is go immediately and find it.
p2pnet – Gary Glitter faces death squad, November 23, 2005
The Sun - Glitter hit cut from GCSEs, November 11, 2008
Times Online – Gary Glitter could face a firing squad, November 22, 2005
The Guardian – Gary Glitter singalong at schools, November 10, 2008
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November 11th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
So?… LET Glitter’s music be sold. HOWEVER, do NOT send the royalties to him. INSTEAD use those royalties to help *truly* abused children around the world. Say, X amount of revenue in country A is raised then that X amount can used in that country for its *truly* abused children. Y amount in country B to be used to help children in that country and so on. Turn the negative into a positive instead of just allowing the negative to stay that way!