Coming to a classroom near you...
The oh-so-smug Michael Gove doesn’t appear to know when to give it a rest. His latest announcement will see 439 more schools redefined as failing. All very well seeking to ensure more kids achieve five A-C grades, but there are ways and means – one of which might be to make sure they’re taught in classrooms that are fit for purpose.
His other master plan is to send ‘our boys’ into the classroom once they’re back from the horrors that must have been in Iraq and Afghanistan. Giving soldiers a fast-track route into a good profession is a fine idea in principle, but you have to wonder at the motives: Gove cites discipline and leadership as two key characteristics that soldiers will bring to schools. Sounds scary stuff to me and it remains to be seen how shell-shocked lads will make the transition from Kabul to the classroom.