Following the recent announcement that all schools will become academies by 2022, I have seen plenty of reaction online from teachers and school leaders.
As one would expect, the majority of what I have read has been questioning this policy and arguing against the requirement that all schools convert within the next six years.
As a headteacher of a school that became an academy around five years ago, I have first-hand experience of what it is like to go through the process of conversion and I have worked with the so-called “freedoms” and “autonomy” that the holy grail of academisation brings.
In fact, I have worked in two schools at senior leadership level in two different local authorities where academy conversion has taken place, so I feel well-placed to comment on what it is like to lead a school which holds academy status.
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