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The Somerset schools named âOutstandingâ by Ofsted
An Outstanding school rating means they provide âthe highest quality education and care for their childrenâ
Students during an English Literature class (Image: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)
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Ofsted has announced that their full programme of graded school inspections will resume this autumn.
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When you think about activities commonly seen at a preschool, things like naps, games, and Play-Doh sculptures probably come to mind. One thing that definitely would not is boiling and eating babies at least, not unless you grew up in the 1980s, when reports of daycare centers engaging in satanic rituals were widely circulated and readily believed.
Satanic panic was a phenomenon that swept North America, and at the height of the craze, you basically couldn’t open up the newspaper or turn on the news without hearing about subliminal messages hidden in rock music, pagan symbols in cartoons, or criminal trials involving teachers engaging in human sacrifice. People went to jail for years based on little more than a widespread rumor that the devil’s minions were corrupting and sometimes devouring children. The mass hysteria grew to include Oprah, the Smurfs, and even McDonald’s.