How about teaching kids not to use such stupid phrases as ‘blended learning’?

The term “Blended Learning” has recently emerged from the mayhem Covid-19 has inflicted upon our educational system, and the schooling of our young people in particular

This is yet another example of the misuse of words/phrases, apparently intended to obscure, misrepresent or put a gloss on things, and which have the unintended (or perhaps intended) consequence of confusing and infuriating those of us who are a little more advanced in years than we would like to be.

My dislike of this practice has its roots in a visit to my GP when he referred to a consultant at the hospital as a “good clinician”. What is a clinician I mused, until Google explained that it is a “hands-on medical doctor”. So why not simply a “good doctor” or a “good consultant” – and anyway, is a nurse running a clinic not also entitled to be called a clinician, good or otherwise.to avoid further mental contortions I placed “clinician in the unnecessary cabinet in my mental furniture and tried to forget it

More recently, “Stakeholder” has tried my patience as every time I hear it I get a mental picture of someone, arms aloft, endeavouring to dispatch a vampire.

Also, students attending schools are, I fear, at an unnecessary advantage over pupils at the school, as the students are obviously already embarked on a university education

Young goats instead of children now appear to make up a substantial part of the human race, and there are a host of other words and phrases which grate and exasperate in equal measure

Would it be too much to ask the author of Blended Learning to think again and give due consideration to those who treasure accuracy and simplicity in language? In essence, reserve the word “blended “to describe whisky and cookery, where it properly resides