Every school in England to become an academy! Oh dear

[Itchy]

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/15/every-english-school-to-become-an-academy-ministers-to-announce


No national curriculum!

So things like the Islamic school that taught the girls if they ever refused sex with their husbands they'd go to hell?! Is now A-OK!

No need for teachers to have any sort of qualifications! Worked so well in China in the private sector!

No power for teaching staff in terms of pay.

Zero accountability.


What could go wrong!





This is nothing more than the wholesale corporatism of the school system. I have to wonder when 2020 rolls round will there actually be anything left in the UK? Or will the government have sold all our assets and services to contractors to satisfy their insane ideological bent and corruption?


I really don't get it how come you're not rioting in the streets over these things? Don't any of you feel terrified for the future of the UK? I've got an established escape route and I feel outraged...
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While I'm usually all about hands-off government, now is not the time to be trusting schools to produce a generation who will read more than one book in their lives[*].

OFSTED will have to be beefed up to deal with snackbar. Looks more like centralising power than devolving it to me.

[*] Harry Potter, obvs.
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To be honest I think a lot of people still take what the government say at face value and actually trust it is in the best interests of the country...
No one at work here has even thought to question whether this is a bad idea or not

I swear half the population is just sleep walking this country into oblivion whilst successive governments sell of every asset this country has ever owned.

Its a bit disturbing the way the likes of Brown could just waltz in, off load half our gold stocks when prices were at near record lows, advised under no circumstances should he do this and he just went ahead and did so. Cameron selling off Royal Mail... Hmmm, who could value the company? Low ball price? Am sure its legit...

They could do practicality anything and nothing would happen really. We're to civilized to call it out...

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Oh, another Itchy bitching about our green and pleasant land thread, how refreshing...
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[Robby]

I'm coming at the academy question from the other direction.

State schools have been in a race to the bottom for a long time. No grammar schools, that's elitist. Don't separate the classes out based on ability, that isn't fair on the dribblers. Everyone must do well on the standardised tests, why bother teaching anything else.

Meanwhile fee-paying schools have ignored all of that nonsense and provided a far better education, largely from the 1930s model.

So if the academies model allows a madrassah to become a recognised school, I don't care. My kids won't be going there, and if the madrassah provides an awful education, my kids will have a head start on them. If it provides a bit variety in the local schools, even better.

When you say no need for teachers to have any qualifications, I presume you mean teaching qualifications. Not a big issue for me. From memory at school we had an economics teacher whose qualification was 20 years working for an oil company, he knew his stuff. A design teacher whose qualification was being a designer, and a few that had spent years in academia but never taken any kind of course in teaching teenagers.

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