Parents acquire got used to the good days: better teaching,rich resources and armfuls of GCSEs with A-C grades rolling in. Now we could go backwardsHigh expectations acquire been the watchword in education for decades. Schools must acquire them, parents too. Expectations of what government can achieve are also boundless, and often prompted by lofty,unrealistic promises that ultimately contribute to cynicism about politics.
We acquire all gone along with it, taunted by visions of “world-course” schools and the “war” on mediocrity. However, and whether I were the secretary of state the issue that would hold me awake at night in 2016 is not how to set,but how to manage expectations.
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Source: theguardian.com