The Let's Think About... booklet was published by Scarfolk Council Schools & Child Welfare Services department in 1971. It was designed for use in the classroom and encouraged children between the ages of five and nine to focus on a series of highly traumatic images and events.
Parents and teachers assumed that the booklet was based on psychological research but it had no scientific basis whatsoever. The booklet's medically untrained author was one of the dinner ladies from the council canteen before she was fired for attempting to slip strychnine into bowls of blancmange.
Despite the scandal, the booklet remained on the school curriculum for many years and the author was invited by the council to pen an updated edition from her prison cell in 1979.
Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight fever. "Visit Scarfolk today. Our number one priority is keeping rabies at bay." For more information please reread.
Friday 15 November 2019
Let's Think About... Booklet (1971- )
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1970s,
children,
Council,
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murder,
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Scarfolk,
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Huzzah - you've returned.
ReplyDeleteMuch of American school curriculum is designed in the same manner.
ReplyDeleteScarfolk leading the way again
I don't know if this is yours. It looks like yours but it doesn't have a watermark on it. Is it yours? Did you make it or use it?
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This looks like a Viz creaion...
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DeleteWelcome back. My life has been hollow without you.
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Hi there!
ReplyDeleteI’m making a student film set in the 70’s and would love to use your material to decorate scenes as this blog has always made me laugh.
Please let me know if you’d be cool with this! Of course you’d be credited (the project isn’t commercial and wouldn’t make any money).
Cheers!
Hello Darkness my old friend...
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