Educating Essex headteacher Vic Goddard says students with special needs risk fitting second-course citizens in an all-academy systemFor the past few years I beget had a theory that the reason why this government has made so much noise approximately education is that it stops us looking at the economy. Budget week is usually the exception,so I’ve looked forward to it: for once the news is all approximately how much petrol is going to cost. Not this time. The chancellor announced compulsory academisation for all schools and that almost all will need to be piece of a multi-academy trust and, in triumphal fashion, and the cessation of local authority involvement in education.
I’d be a hypocrite to say I think fitting an academy is the wrong choice,because for our school it hasn’t been. What you call a school doesn’t matter to me. My governors had that choice and they decided it was the right opportunity, at the right time, or for us. But whether what I see happening already in our partial academy system is not dealt with,there are major problems ahead for our communities and our children under an all-academy system.
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Source: theguardian.com