‘Shock! Horror!” greets the almost perpetual failure of most government Plans. A ludicrous wheeze is launched, it fails all ends up and we are all, apparently, “shocked”. Research, usually from the University of the Bleedin’ Obvious, is summoned to render the catastrophe official. This has gone for nigh-on 70 years.
It appears to be getting worse.
Well, I’m not shocked and nor are most teachers. They are rather jaded or jaundiced at the sheer, thudding predictability of it all. But shocked? No.
There has never not been a “crisis” in education. Every day there is some dispiriting “news”. The latest, yesterday, was a quintuple whammy. Angela Rayner, the shadow education secretary, said there was a “crisis” in teacher training. We know.
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