Another poor teenager dies on the streets of our capital and we hear the same old clarion call that “schools must do more” (SecEd, 2019). The lack of joined up thinking is utterly tragic.
“Schools must do more,” and with one broad brush stroke the well-dressed politicians who usually make these comments bat their own responsibility to one side and heap yet more pressure onto an education system already approaching breaking point.
Schools have always been used as political footballs, but never like this, and certainly never when the stakes have been as high as they are with what many now believe is a youth knife crime epidemic.
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