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Schools Crisis.

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I know this isn’t the topic in the title, Buce, but it is relevant when I highlight the absurd notion that the Tories want to turn all schools into academies as well as remove public accountability for schools in the removal of parent governors for “people with the right skills” (ie. People who can make a chunk out of the privatisation). This has gone well under the radar in the wake of IDSgate but there is now an open door for private financial firms, IT and HR companies and administrators to sink their claws into the education system in the latest Tory scheme to sell off any public sector responsibility the community and country at large has.

 

As for the teaching crisis, Tories will say there is now record numbers of teachers in training, which is true but the issue is the experienced members of staff are leaving the profession in record numbers. My experience of the inexperienced teachers when I was doing GCSE/A-Levels is that they know how to get through the curriculum and how to create a Powerpoint presentation but can’t expand on points off curriculum and have no idea how to drum exam technique into students.

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Plans to turn every state school in England into an academy have been criticised by Conservative councillors.


Several have called for the policy to be reversed, including the councillor responsible for education in David Cameron's Oxfordshire constituency.


Melinda Tilley warned small village schools could be at risk if academy chains decided they were unviable.


The government said it plans to ensure every English school is committed to becoming an academy by 2022.


Chancellor George Osborne made the announcement during the Budget but after being forced to abandon his plans for disability cuts because of Conservative opposition, he now faces pressure over another key feature of his speech.


Ms Tilley told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I'm fed up with diktats from above saying you will do this and you won't do that. This is not why I became a Conservative."


One normally loyal MP said: "When you have a decent local authority and broadly speaking have good schools and good leadership why on earth would you force people down this route?"


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Plans to turn every state school in England into an academy have been criticised by Conservative councillors.

Several have called for the policy to be reversed, including the councillor responsible for education in David Cameron's Oxfordshire constituency.

Melinda Tilley warned small village schools could be at risk if academy chains decided they were unviable.

The government said it plans to ensure every English school is committed to becoming an academy by 2022.

Chancellor George Osborne made the announcement during the Budget but after being forced to abandon his plans for disability cuts because of Conservative opposition, he now faces pressure over another key feature of his speech.

Ms Tilley told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I'm fed up with diktats from above saying you will do this and you won't do that. This is not why I became a Conservative."

One normally loyal MP said: "When you have a decent local authority and broadly speaking have good schools and good leadership why on earth would you force people down this route?"

 

I must admit I can't see the point of this. I've nothing against academies but making every school 1 seems excessive and unnecessary.

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I have a fair few teaching friends who've quit within the first year of teaching. If I didn't have a mortgage to pay off, I'd be following suit.

 

Pay is fairly nice as a teacher, but the work-load is unsustainable in the long run.

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Gotta say over the last week I'm very surprised at the lack of media coverage the academy change is getting. This is a massive change and a much bigger process of privatisation than the Tories have undertaken as yet seen in the prisons or the NHS and it seems nobody gives a shit. If you're reading this and are a parent I'd suggest you read into what this means for your schools because the right wing media isn't going to tell you.

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JC on point as per.

Buce

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No. It;s the Guardian and Jeremy Corbyn so very few on here will agree.

But at least they get a chance to see it if we continue to post it - the Tory supporting media will just suppress it, or distract attention away with a Royal feelgood story.

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The right wing press suppressing it.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3509972/Jeremy-Corbyn-raises-laugh-addresses-teaching-union-s-annual-conference.html

 

Honestly Buce, you're getting worse than Ken.

Nice to see the story published at 22:02, just 8 hours after JC's speech and nowhere near the front page of the website because obviously what colour shirt Davey Cameron is wearing on his holiday is more important.

Stadt

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A reverse compliment.

There are many ways to suppress. Not always the obvious ones.

 

lol

Webbo

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Nice to see the story published at 22:02, just 8 hours after JC's speech and nowhere near the front page of the website because obviously what colour shirt Davey Cameron is wearing on his holiday is more important.

The Guardian story was written before the speech was made.

 

But obviously you're right actually reporting what was said is basically censorship.

Webbo

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There are none so blind as those that don't wish to see, Webbo.

No, you're going to have to explain that. How is reporting the story suppressing it? And I mean really explain it, not just a collection of buzz words like "disabled,food banks,right wing media" actually explain how that is suppressing the story?

Buce

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No, you're going to have to explain that. How is reporting the story suppressing it? And I mean really explain it, not just a collection of buzz words like "disabled,food banks,right wing media" actually explain how that is suppressing the story?

I wasn't specifically referring to this story, Webbo.

The general trend is for the Tory supporting media to either ignore stories that put the Tories in a bad light, put a positive spin on them, or hide them behind some other contrived news, like what Prince William's latest sprog has had for breakfast.

There have been countless examples of this over the course of the last six years, but since you would deny it until you are blue in the face, I really can't be arsed wasting my weekend dredging up examples for you.

My reply to Ken was to say that by posting the stories on here, we are giving people an opportunity to read news that they may not have seen elsewhere.

Webbo

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Do the Guardian put the latest unemployment figures on the front page( unless they're bad news obviously)? Do they ever report anything that the Tories do in a good light? What about the Mirror?

 

Only the Independent pretends to be unbiased and they're not even printing papers anymore.

Buce

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Do the Guardian put the latest unemployment figures on the front page( unless they're bad news obviously)? Do they ever report anything that the Tories do in a good light? What about the Mirror?

Only the Independent pretends to be unbiased and they're not even printing papers anymore.

Well, I only read the grauniad online, but the answer is yes.

I wouldn't wipe my arse with the Mirror, much less read it, and for much the same reasons that I decry the Tory press.

Webbo

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I only read the Daily Mail online (I do buy the MoS) and I can assure you there is plenty of negative stories about the tories.

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