A place where I'll post up some thoughts and ideas - especially on literature in education, children's literature in general, poetry, reading, writing, teaching and thoughts on current affairs.
Saturday, 16 April 2016
Dear union leaders, your predecessors, education, how the Tories are stealing it
Dear union leaders,Your predecessors demanded a democratic education for all, owned by all. The Tories are stealing it from us.
The Tories' model of education is based on a pre-1870 system plus diktats based on ministers' memories of their private education.
Remnants of an education system based on egalitarian principles is being dismantled, to be replaced by competition: = selection is back.
Will forced academisation enable govt to make big cuts in education whilst saying it's academies doing the cuts?
In a few years the situation will revert to a cash-starved Academy sector and 'those who can pay, should pay' so end up going private.