We are seeing the political dogma of business talk being applied to education.
Our children are being reduced to statistics. They are successes or failures in the exam grade rat-race and league tables.
Do we want the suicide rates of Japan?
the automatons of S Korea and China where thought is driven out by knowledge?
I want my children happy, well adjusted, full of self-esteem and cared for. I want them nurtured, creative and full of vim. I do not want to see frazzled, burnt-out wrecks who are being put through a sausage mincer!
Perhaps you would like to read what a highly successful ex-Secondary Headteacher has to say. I think I’m the only one making sense!