Where is our common sense going? Watching the debacle that occurs when the government continues to interfere (control) with our education is laughable would it not be such a seriously misguided endeavour.
Having created the “tick-box” society that we live in and the ongoing measuring of our children, they have decided that there are a number of schools around the country that need to either close or sort themselves out. Given that no one else, myself included, has come up with any better measurement system to gauge the quality of various schools (apart from letting market forces, i.e. parents, decide – now there’s a novel idea!), I guess we need to start somewhere.
However, where I have a serious issue is that any school not deemed up to scratch will be knocked down and a new one rebuilt, possibly combining it with another one in close proximity. Now I am no expert, but I fail to see how a new building will solve the education problems. The problems are deeper than that and bureaucrats need to stop their laziness and make the hard decisions to make things better in the long run.
Will they? Heavens no…that might make them look bad, and then they’ll be out of a job.
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