I wrote my first column for SecEd in 2004 and this is to be my last. As I embark upon retirement this summer, I am leaving behind most of my “old life”. I am really grateful to editor Pete Henshaw and the team at SecEd for giving me the opportunity for the past decade to express my views about education and the folly of bureaucrats and politicians, and to highlight the many excellent things that go on in our schools.
It was in many ways a different world when I began my teaching career in a grammar school in the Midlands in 1974, but some themes have remained constant throughout my teaching career: notably, obsessions by government with changes to school structures and to school examinations.
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