Tory Education policy in an absolute mess!

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What a complete cock-up the Tories are making of education! As an ex secondary school Headteacher I am appalled.

  1. All schools underfunded resulting in wholesale redundancies.
  2. Teacher pay cut drastically and pensions slashed resulting in demoralisation.
  3. Workload through the ceiling causing stress and illness.
  4. Best teachers leaving, taking early retirement or changing profession.
  5. Free school gimmick a fiasco – many so badly run they have shut after only a few years at huge expense. Unqualified teachers, religious indoctrination, poor education standards, unfit buildings, unfit management – a complete farce!
  6. Religious schools set up to indoctrinate children and create segregation instead of integration. Breeding grounds for the next round of terrorists? British values of democracy, tolerance and pluralism?
  7. Grammar schools with kids being stressed to pass tests at eleven or go through life as a failure. Serving the top 10% at the expense of 90%. A two tier system of success and failure paving the way for another generation of secondary modern horrors.
  8. The politicisation of Ofsted.
  9. Teaching my numbers with a mantra of a standard three part lesson and tick-box culture strangling creativity of teaching in the classroom.
  10. A greatly reduced curriculum causing the Arts to wither on the vine and student creativity to be stunted.

What an indictment!!  Education cannot be trusted in Tory hands. It is the same old story. They only value the wealthy and private education.

All the time the Tories try to deflect away from the gross underfunding behind their strategy by bringing in gimmick after gimmick. If this carries on much longer they will have destroyed all that was good about it.

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Tory Education Policy an absolute scandalous mess! Why it’s wrong and what should be done.

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As an ex secondary Headteacher I have a very good handle on education.

In my view the last six years of Tory education policy has been an absolute disaster. They have brought in Free Schools, Religious Schools, Academies and Grammar Schools. All of which are hugely expensive and have siphoned funding away from mainstream schools causing all manner of damage. Not only that but all of the new initiatives have been abysmal. They have reduced pay and pensions for teachers, demoralised the staff, brought in layers of bureaucracy, unwanted change, politicised Ofsted and wasted money right, left and centre.

Free Schools

An attempt to get education on the cheap that has backfired. The Free School programme has allowed any idiot or person with vested interests to set up their own schools. We have had religious nutcases, political and business interests all wanting to get their hands on our children.

They are expensive to set up and many have already gone bust and shut due to mismanagement.

Of the ones that are still running there are many totally undesirable people looking to indoctrinate our children with their religious beliefs or strange views.

They employ unqualified staff, provide dubious teaching stands, and substandard education.

What an absolute horror of an idea. You couldn’t make it up.

Religious Schools

They are promoting more religious schools. Yes I’m sure religious communities want that but do we really want our young children indoctrinated? Do we want them segregated from other children and brought up apart? Or do we want them integrated and educated to think?

Education should not be indoctrination. We do not want Muslim, Jewish, Catholic or Protestant children isolated from the broad society outside, Surely that isolation leads to separation and fanaticism? Are we sowing the seeds for a future generation of terrorists?

I think integration is desirable.

Segregation through religion leads to trouble. So short sighted.

Academies

Schools were bribed with promises of extra funding to become academies. What a mistake. The funding promises did not materialise. They were lied to.

The true purpose was political – to undermine the power of the local authorities.

Academies are left without support or a network and with a huge extra burden of bureaucracy and extra work. They have to go through processes of buying in the services previously provided by the local authorities. They have changed schools into businesses. But education should not be a business. Children’s education should not be run as a business.

Grammar Schools

Selection at eleven (or 13) is a terrible thing to put our children through. It creates winners and losers and scars many children for life. If you pass you are great. If you fail you are useless.

The successful become arrogant. The failures become demotivated.

10% are successful. 90% fail. How can that possibly be good?

Of course it panders to the Tory voters, the more affluent. They pay for private education or tuition. They put in the cash to ensure their children pass the exam. It is not a level playing field.

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Indoctrination in Illegal schools, Free Schools and Academies.

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Is this where the next Jihadists are being bred?

Is this a recipe for extremism and division in society?

I think so.

Young children are being illegally indoctrinated by Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus and a variety of other cults.

As an ex-headmaster I am appalled.

Illegal Schools

There are many illegal schools set up in all manner of premises in which the only curriculum is a religious text. Instead of learning all the subjects of the national curriculum they are being brainwashed into religion. Instead of being integrated into our culture and values they are being segregated and taught hatred.

This is a scandal. The schools should be closed and the people running them and parents involved prosecuted.

Free Schools

Anyone can set up a free school. You do not require any qualifications or experience. They are being run by total amateurs. Many of them have been set up by religious groups with the sole intent of brainwashing children. What an insane idea this was!

Free schools should be subjected to the same rules, regulation and national curriculum as State schools. It is scandalous that religious bodies, incompetent staff and extreme ideologies should be allowed to ruin children’s lives.

Academies

Big business running schools for profit, religious groups tailoring the curriculum to tout their own doctrine, and dubious groups becoming involved in the education of our children? It should not be allowed to happen.

Education is not a business.

Religion has no place in schools.

We need to keep interested parties – such as the scientologists and creationists away from our children.

All schools in Britain should follow the same National Curriculum and Ofsted regime. Why are some exempt?

KEEP RELIGION AND BIG BUSINESS OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS!!!

UKIP Academy – The Free School for the Future!!

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We won’t need trained teachers to delivery our curriculum.

Lesson 1 -Safeguarding – Why we should not talk to strangers.

Lesson 2 – Economics – The Common Market and why it’s so common

Lesson 3 – Maths – the number of Immigrants and Johnny Foreigner in Britain – we’ll add them up

Lesson 4 – Careers – Where are British jobs? Jobs abroad for the British. Freedom of movement for the British.

Lesson 5 –  Home Economics – Pies and chips

Lesson 6 – English – celebrate the only important language – they’ll soon catch on

Lesson 7 – Science -Why we are superior in every way

Lesson 8 – History – the battles we won

Lesson 9 – Geography – the places we owned

Lesson 10 – Foreign Languages – No need for these!

Lesson 11 – RE – God, Queen and Country – be prepared to die for it.

Lesson 12 – Health Education – It’s your right to smoke, drink and eat as many pies as you like

A broad a balanced view. We know all about British values.

Of course we shall be unbiased and give the full picture!

Your children are safe in our hands. They’ll find out how to make our country great again. We don’t need any National Curriculum. We have our own agenda.

There’s nothing extreme about us!

Thank heavens for free schools!!

An ex Headteacher’s View – Free School’s – A complete waste of money, political gimmick and an anathema to integration.

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What is wrong with these idiot politicians?

Instead of fixing things they introduce bribes in order to buy votes.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/passion-Education-story-Headteacher-ebook/dp/B00OWIQHEO/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=A passion for education

Free schools are the stupidest idea yet. The Tories seem to like stupid ideas.But Free Schools take the biscuit – they do four extremely stupid things:

a. They increase the number of Faith Schools – promoting the brain-washing of our children (The various religions, creationists and the like can’t wait to get their hands on our kids) and creating further segregation that feeds the sort of extremism we are seeing with ISIS. Do we really want to have isolated communities? Do we want ghettos of different religions and cultures? Do we want them maintaining different values? Or do we want an integrated community with variety, respect and shared British values?

b. They panda to parents in areas where schools are being closed because of falling numbers. It is not economic sense to keep schools open at huge cost. I thought these were times of austerity? This is an expensive bribe to buy votes! The Local Authorities know what is viable and what isn’t. These decisions are never popular.

c. They are sucking funding out of other schools. At a time when all schools are suffering with huge cuts this is insane.

d. Free schools run on different standards. They do not even have to have trained teachers! If Ofsted and the stringent teaching rules are so necessary for our State Schools why aren’t they needed here?

INSANITY on many fronts. When are we going to get intelligence being applied. I’m sick of political dogma!

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