Lipstick on a Pig

I was looking at school websites tonight trying to find some information I needed and I stumbled across a school that I won’t name, but on the front page of their website they had these two rather ironic images on display in a slider…

I’m fairly sure that neither of these images qualifies for the claim they make of “Best Practices in Education” or “Advanced Learning Environment”.

Is it that schools simply don’t get what those terms mean? Or are they just marketing to parents who don’t understand what those terms mean? I’m not sure, but I do know that images like these completely devalue any real sense of best practise or advanced learning environments because the school clearly doesn’t know what those terms actually mean.

A school is not innovative or modern or advanced or “best practice” because it says so in their marketing brochures. It needs to actually BE those things it claims to be.

Adding phrases like that to images like this is simply just putting lipstick on a pig.

CC BY 4.0 Lipstick on a Pig by Chris Betcher is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

2 Replies to “Lipstick on a Pig”

  1. So true. Recently it seems like knowing all the right buzzwords leads many to think that they’re actually doing what they say they are. Differentiated Instruction is another high-powered phrase that gets a lot more usage than does the actual practice it describes.

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