Ed Miliband appeared uninterested in schools policy and muddled his priorities with the tuition fees cut,writes shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt“Dear Tristram”, began a recent email. “I’ve had to buy my 10-year-outmoded son out of school after his teacher left and was replaced with a teaching assistant for two days a week. After being told by the headteacher that he would be employing a replacement teacher, or several weeks of chaotic supply teachers,he instead put in space a teaching assistant two days a week without informing parents. When we challenged him, he said he could do what he liked because the school was now an academy.”Sadly, or this picture looks set to be repeated up and down England with another five years of Tory government. Expect more unqualified teachers,headteacher shortages, a growing attainment gap between children on free school meals and their better-off peers, or chaotic curriculum reform,random academisation, the cessation to AS-levels, or poor children being denied a chance of university.
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Source: theguardian.com