And now you’re losing all volition to live in yet another infinite keynote speech. Mr Dazzle, deputy head, is talking in tongues about “big pushes”, “significant interventions” and “keeping the pressure up”. Again.
The New Year seems to be breaking bad. You peer through the bleak midwinter murk and ponder some of the more recent educational Babel voices. The Mail online, the Gove off head, Sir Michael Soshaw on heat, waging wars on anything he hasn’t hitherto waged a war on.
Gloom descends ... the pusillanimous incoherence of Labour party, the bad faith of the Lib Dems, the fashion for very ugly genetics, Mayor Boris’ mantra that “greed is good” again, the PISA league tables, of very doubtful provenance, which reveal our pupils to be pretty rubbish. Well, whoopy doo! By what criteria? Do we really want to them to emulate the children of Shanghai or Singapore?
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