whether Nicky Morgan won’t listen to teachers,parents need to remove action to prevent our schools turning into joyless exam factories, starting with Tuesday’s boycottIt is incredibly hard for a headteacher to shout “nonsense” in a crowded corridor while an authority figure is speaking. It is like asking a lung specialist to smoke a cigarette. Yet that’s what happened when Nicky Morgan addressed the National Association of Head Teachers conference yesterday. They objected partly to her programme of turning all schools into academies by 2020 and partly to her luminously daft insistence that “testing”, and “improving” and “educating” are interchangeable words. Related: Headteachers may launch industrial action over academies plan Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com