Two items of recent news are profoundly dispiriting. One, 37,500 teachers are on long-term sick leave with “an epidemic of stress”. And two, OffHead has suggested compulsory baseline tests for literacy and numeracy for Reception class tots – and probably embryos for all we know. They “need to be pushed harder”. Jesus.
I can’t help feeling the two are somehow connected. How can teachers be treated so badly? Can it get any worse? It doesn’t have to be like this. It wasn’t always like this. A school needs a great head, fiercely independent teachers, and a flexible, bespoke curriculum, just like I had.
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