Education secretary vows to undo Gove’s ‘straitjacket’ school reforms
Education Secretary Lucy Powell says schools are stuck in a “straitjacket” of academic prioritisation, hindering children’s potential.
She has announced a review into whether teaching adequately prepares pupils for their futures, signalling a move to undo reforms implemented by Michael Gove.
Writing in The Times, Ms Powell said: “The one-size-fits-all approach simply doesn’t suit all children. For some it’s become a straitjacket. A straitjacket that has left too many being branded a failure — again and again — instead of being able to realise their potential.”
She intends to take a “fresh look at what we are teaching our children and whether we are equipping them for their lives ahead” as part of efforts to reverse Mr Gove’s education policies.
We have a review of course, but we we also have Michael Gove as the Tory to blame. To go with that we have a "one-size-fits-all approach" as the approach to blame even though this has been the Fabian dealing-with-the-plebs approach for over a century.
We also have the Freudian slip, a "straitjacket." That's another clue that more money will be needed, from you, via increased taxes, for the new straitjacket.
Oh yes - we also have a "fresh look at what we are teaching our children and whether we are equipping them for their lives ahead”, but that's just the usual sinister hint about taking a firmer grip on the approved political background to schooling.
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I know, why not stream schools so that children with different abilities and interests are in different classes? Why, in large enough towns you could even have different schools that specialise in different things.
We don't really have a "one-size-fits-all approach", we have an "all-will-fit-one-size" approach.
If we had a "fits all" approach we would now have modern versions of grammar schools alongside secondary schools and trade schools. But we don't - because allowing young people to find their optimum path in life would give them ideas above their station. It might even throw off the yoke of benign state direction.
dearieme - that's a good idea, it would allow children with a leaning towards academic or a leaning towards practical or technical abilities to make the best of their education. The number of universities could be reduced too, which would be a saving. We could call them grammar, technical and secondary modern schools.
DJ - good point and we know which approach Lucy Powell favours. There is a definite thread in education where giving young people ideas above their station is not favoured. Looking back, it can seem as if streaming pupils with different aptitudes was the golden age of education.
I don't see how you could get more of a 'straight jacket' than labour progressive ideology. It's put the whole country in one.
Tammly - and they still think the straps should be tighter.
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