In Animal Farm, George Orwell wrote a speech by Napoleon that included the chant “four legs good, two legs bad”.
In England today the education chant being coined could be “local authorities good, multi-academies bad”.
I applaud the identification in the media of malfeasance in schools, academies and multi-academy trusts (MATs). It can never be right that public monies are used simply to benefit a few individuals.
And it can never be right that individual schools and academies put their own interests before the interests of individual learners and communities.
The examples you can find across the service that have been well documented and publicised are very sorry tales that should never have happened in the first place.
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