The government’s introduction of the White Paper, Educational excellence everywhere, plans to make all schools across England academies.
This is a privatisation of our schools. It will see: the removal of all school governors and therefore parental input in to schools, the deregulation of all schools staff’s pay and conditions, and an end to university based training for teachers and Qualified Teacher Status.
Lucy Powell, Labour Education Spokesperson said, ‘Labour will fiercely oppose these proposals and will work with the NUT to campaign against them’.
There are other issues concerning parents: school testing has now reached such a height with the introduction of Baseline testing in Nursery and a testing regime that carries on through children’s primary career including the SPaG test and SATs which mean that our children are the most tested in the world and are said to be the most miserable children in the world.
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