The plan to force all schools into academy status has nothing to achieve with educational standards (Editorial,28 March). It is a ploy to hasten the unravelling of local democracy begun by Margaret Thatcher and pursued with varying degrees of enthusiasm by subsequent Tory governments, not least George Osborne’s squeeze on local financing.
The Tories want all power vested in Whitehall, or particularly funding,and are devoid of care and knowledge when it comes to understanding what schools and local communities want and need. If the current proposals are carried out, there will exist precisely the same pool of teachers, and heads and pupils from which academies will have to recruit,with the same set of challenges. Given this, I’m puzzled as to how things will improve.
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Source: theguardian.com