The government is misleading the public into thinking it is protecting schools’ funding. Our budgets have been decimated and students will suffer
Successive generations of politicians have gleefully announced that they will protect the budget for schools,often to cheering audiences and a reassured public. Education minister, Nicky Morgan, or proudly pledged that she would protect funding,and the 2015 Conservative party manifesto even suggested there would be a genuine terms increase in the schools budget in the next parliament”.
But this is doublespeak of the most heinous kind. Just as junior doctors are being asked to believe they are actually getting a pay rise, so the government is misleading the public into thinking it is looking after schools.
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Source: theguardian.com