The NUT has a proud tradition of developing positive proposals aimed at improving and enhancing children’s life-chances. We know that what teachers most enjoy about their jobs is seeing young people develop, progress and achieve.
However there are many issues that get in the way of this. Excessive testing, targets, over-prescription and ministerial diktat are stifling our education system. This top-down culture is cheating children and young people of the stimulating experience that school should be and creating, as one respondent in a recent NUT survey said, “soulless drones” of teachers who are weighed down with unnecessary paperwork and constantly changing initiatives.
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