Blue Peter

Blue Peter
   British
   (of education)
   undisciplined or ineffective
   The derivation is from a television programme for children in which, among other activities, they were shown how to construct models out of waste materials. The use is derogatory of primary education where formal instruction in the 'three Rs' may be neglected in favour of letting the children express their personalities through unstructured activities:
    ... marginalised and often trivialised into the so-called Blue Peter technology and cardboard engineering. {Daily Telegraph, 7 September 1995)

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