Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) was initially welcomed by countless teachers. It has increasingly been mired in disputes.
Workload and resource issues have particularly enraged teachers, who are reeling from reduced funding, new examinations, faculty systems and the abandonment of traditional subject departments.
Against this background the latest, glossy Scottish government publication would be risible were it not deadly serious.
Schools recently received Curriculum for Excellence – Working Group on Tackling Bureaucracy. This document started by quoting Albert Einstein: “Bureaucracy is the death of sound work.” It then proceeded to announce the formation of the working group on tackling bureaucracy.
Working groups are at the very heart of every modern bureaucracy. That tautology however, had gone totally unnoticed by those responsible for this appalling piece of propaganda.
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