And There's More... On Mr McQuoid

Somehow Mr McQuoid squared the removal of Mr Blackledge from the Emmanuel schools foundation with his strict devotion to the biblical view of the world. I don't quite understand how he was able to pull this off but it was clear he did.

Did he see his 'posting' to help the ailing and badly thought out Richard Rose Academy as a message from his god?
Did he then find out about the 'un-fillable' Barrow Academy principals post and see that as an example of god's bounty?

For someone so devout there has to be a reason for everything and that reason is that persons god. It doesn't matter which religion or which god devout people can see their god's hand everywhere they look.

Mr McQuoid also 'sells' his religion to anyone who will listen. By 'selling' I mean put forwards his point of view on his god at at every opportunity he can especially when he perceives that there are other human beings that need saving or educating.
He appears in print, at meetings, goes on TV and speaks on radio with considerable authority always giving the same message of evangelism that can save you... from all manner of what Mr McQuoid perceives to be 'ills'.

What is odd that in the whole of t'internet I have only found one picture of this man and that was on the BBC web site. Strange that given his affection for using every media to evangelise.

To get a real flavour of how this man thinks and more importantly to him how he sees himself in a world full of sin and depravity, which it probably is just as it was at any point in 'civilised history', read this article below written in 2005 but before you do lets come back to Douglas Blackledge.

This man committed adultery with another man's wife. She too committed adultery with another woman's husband. Mr McQuoid's bible tells him how to deal the situation. It is a tad ambiguous but basically there is NO ROOM for adultery in the good book. It has to be dealt with severely.

However the good book also preaches forgiveness and salvation.
Mr McQuoid probably forgave Mr Blackledge & Mrs Aveyard as his book says he should but adulterers have no place in his schools so he seems to have given Mr Blackledge a short time to apply for jobs all over the land to get him out of Trinity with as minimum a fuss as possible. It goes without saying that Mr Blackledge's 'credentials' on any reference from Emmanuel Schools Foundation would be excellent if not impeccable because if the truth came out no school would employ this man given his behaviour with another teacher's wife!

When Mr McQuoid landed his extremely short Carlisle posting he seems to have found what  was to him a perfect solution and a possible 'gift from his god', Barrow's planned Academy.

A quiet word or two in the right ears and a glowing reference which was carefully crafted to hide the truth about why Douglas Blackledge was available and all it needed was a gullible or desperate interview panel and bingo Doug has gone, Trinity is better off, there is no fuss and no stigma for the Emmanuel Schools Foundation or it's millionaire Evangelical Christian founders to ward off.

A win win as far as Mr McQuoid is concerned. He even gets to help Doug see the 'error of his ways' as he helps him get a job with over twice the salary of his Trinity post either covertly or overtly.

Barrow gets well and truly shafted AGAIN!

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Darwinians dislike him - but Ofsted thinks he's divine. Now creationist head Nigel McQuoid is to run an empire of academies with an unashamedly Christian ethos. Michael Shaw meets him.

He has led two of the most controversial schools in Britain and been criticised by scientists for permitting the teaching of biblical creationism.
But inspectors have described Nigel McQuoid's leadership of the King's academy in Middlesbrough as "inspirational". And his work at his previous school, Emmanuel college in Gateshead, has been praised by figures from Sir Cyril Taylor, chairman of the Specialist Schools Trust, to Tony Blair.
Both King's and Emmanuel are sponsored by the multi-millonaire car dealer Sir Peter Vardy, who will promote Mr McQuoid in September to become director of all his schools.

Sir Peter's third school, the Trinity academy, is due to open in Doncaster, south Yorkshire, in September and he hopes to open a further four.
Mr McQuoid has faced criticism since it emerged in 2002 that Emmanuel college taught creationism alongside evolution - a move that led the progressive Bishop of Oxford to describe him as "deeply misguided".
The 45-year-old was also criticised by parents from Conisbrough in Doncaster, who met him before they campaigned, successfully, to block a Vardy-sponsored school.

Bev Wilkes, one of the Conisbrough parents, said: "He was eloquent, but it was like listening to a car salesman."
You don't have to think too hard to imagine Doug's 'glowing reference' contents do you?

Mr McQuoid is open about his faith. "I see a Christ who was determined, courageous, battling for the under-dog, unshakeable from his sense of mission, but was humble," he said. "My aim in life is to get as close to those values as possible."
Although Mr McQuoid believes that the Vardy schools' Christian ethos is crucial, he was attracted to work at them because they are open to pupils of all religions.
He is passionately opposed to single-faith schools. They remind him of the sectarianism that has wrecked his native Ireland and led to the murder of his uncle, who was shot dead by the IRA in 1975.

Although he has an Irish accent, he moved with his parents from Belfast to Chester when he was just 11 months old. When he was 10 his family moved again to Glasgow, where he was severely bullied at his high school.
Mr McQuoid said his face had regularly been shoved in the toilet and that older pupils soaked him with urine-filled balloons.

"I was 10, with an English accent then, and the name Nigel," he said. "When they found out I was Irish they persecuted me for that as well."
Mr McQuoid said that his Christian faith had been another reason why he had been bullied and that it continued to draw attention when he was moved up a year and went to Glasgow university aged 16.

He hated his first job as a chartered accountant, resigning after a year to train as an English teacher. Yet his business knowledge has proved useful as a headteacher, as well as skills he picked up as chief executive of a YMCA hostel in a deprived area of Dublin.
The creationism row began two years after he became principal of Emmanuel college. He insists that his pupils are not forced to share his scepticism of evolutionary theory.

"But to think that we just evolved from a bang, that we used to be monkeys, that seems unbelievable when you look at the complexity of the human body."
he said. "If you tell children there is no purpose to their life - that they are just a chemical mutation - that doesn't build self-esteem."

Mr McQuoid faced further controversy when he became principal of the new King's academy and expelled 28 pupils in its first year. He said that, although the expulsions led to accusations he was un-Christian, they were necessary to let troublemakers know they could not break the rules.
Surprisingly, he hopes that the Vardy schools will remain controversial.
"Some of the controversies about what we are trying to do have raised debates, and we are already seeing approaches that we took the initial heat on appear in different parts of the country," he said.
As an example, he cites King's strict tariff of punishments for misdemeanours, which includes final warnings for bullying and for verbally abusing staff.

Mr McQuoid believes that the clear guidelines, and an expectation that all staff set a strong example, are responsible for creating the "inclusive, harmonious and orderly community" which inspectors described at King's.
The Vardy schools' buildings also give them an advantage.

Several other academies - including the failing Unity, not far from King's in Middlesbrough - have been hampered by bold but impractical buildings which opened years after the schools gained their new status. In contrast, the Vardy schools' modern and office-like buildings are comparatively simple and have all been completed on time.

Disgruntled former staff have referred to Mr McQuoid as a "puppet-master" who keeps an extremely close watch on his teachers.
Some of King's pupils also complain that they find the academy far stricter than their previous schools.
But not all the King's students see Mr McQuoid as a disciplinarian, with many describing him as funny and approachable. Simon Williams, aged 17, said the principal never needed to shout at pupils. "He's more subtle than that," he said.