No sooner had we reported on the grave error the Ham&High had made in last week's issue of leaving no mention at all of Hampstead and its A-Level students - instead favouring the private and independent schools in the area - that the latest edition of their paper came out, this time with a 'GCSE Special'. Special treatment, more like.
Whilst hacks from the local publication were happy to devote column after column to William Ellis students as their journalists doggedly followed around mildly famous Council Leader (and one time Hampstead award giver) Georgia Gould, who was visiting students that day, they were too distracted to focus on much else. As with last time, the majority of photos were of private and independent school students, with not a single cameraman bothering to go to Hampstead.
Whilst in the A-Level coverage Hampstead wasn't even mentioned by the paper, Hampstead students did get a mention this time. However, whilst many schools got their own articles attributed to them, Hampstead school had to settle for the last three paragraphs (21-23) of an article that spent the rest of the time talking about Camden's darling schools William Ellis and Camden School for Girls. This mention had all the journalistic integrity of a strawberry lace as it was copied nearly word-for-word from the press release the school had put out last week.
NOTE: Since the publication of this article, the latest edition of the other local paper - the Camden New Journal - has been released, which features a picture of high-achieving Hampstead GCSE students with their results. Et tu, Ham&High?
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