Germanopoly

My school is due an OFSTED inspection sometime within the next year. As a consequence the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) have gone crazy on the new OFSTED teaching criteria and brought in a series of highly paid consultants to talk to us all and 'help' us. It was my turn today and it was the usual mix of ' reach for the sky style' platitudes and ideas to engage the students that didn't involve them actually having to read or think. My favourite was the suggestion that I play a game called 'Germanopoly' from the best selling German A level textbook (Weimar and Nazi Germany, Hite and Hinton if you're interested). This is a game to help the students 'understand' the Nazi economy, it is unbelievable simple, fatuous and in bad taste - but it's fun! and that's what counts for our education watchdog.