Dear Ms. Benn,
Your recent Guardian column is headlined: “A covert war on schools.
Behind Gove’s new agenda, the state school system is being persistently undermined”
Yes, this is the fucking point of it all.
yours etc.
Tim Worstall
An open letter to Melissa Benn
November 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments
Tags: Education
3 responses so far ↓
1 dearieme // Nov 2, 2010 at 11:25 am
“the state school system is being persistently undermined”: yes, by the Forces of Progress – and yet they seem to take little satisfaction in their handiwork, the greatest act of philistinism in British history. It’s now so crap that we’d be better off abolishing it.
2 JuliaM // Nov 2, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Clean slate and start again. What would it look like, I wonder?
3 Marksany // Nov 2, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Local Education Authorities are being eliminated, with all secondaries due to be come acadamies, many with a clutch of primary schools under their wings.
Academies are directly monitored by Whitehall, unlike Community and Foundation schools which are monitored by LEAs.
Is the system being undermined? That depend how much lighter a hand Whitehall has than LEAs.
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