My ex and I had four kids, ‘75 to ‘83. All went to Steiner schools. Almost all now closed by the Tories. Back in the 80s and 90s they used to get top Ofsted reports.
The core thrust in Steiner education is to produce free and responsible adults. As our four all became.
If reform win a landslide they should ban union donations (as the article suggests) and cap private donations. They should then conveniently make the majority of party political financing derive from the public purse. Using the number of MPs as the metric to determine how much money you receive. Easy to spin and ensures long term victory.
This piece uses the language of educational reform to argue for something fundamentally different: the political capture of schools by one ideological faction in place of another, which is precisely the problem it claims to be solving. The proposal for anonymous student reporting systems to surveil teachers is particularly troubling, not because political bias in classrooms is a trivial concern, but because the remedy proposed would do far more damage to the conditions of trust and professional integrity that make good teaching possible than any curriculum dispute ever could.
My ex and I had four kids, ‘75 to ‘83. All went to Steiner schools. Almost all now closed by the Tories. Back in the 80s and 90s they used to get top Ofsted reports.
The core thrust in Steiner education is to produce free and responsible adults. As our four all became.
No wonder the state feared Steiner schools.
If reform win a landslide they should ban union donations (as the article suggests) and cap private donations. They should then conveniently make the majority of party political financing derive from the public purse. Using the number of MPs as the metric to determine how much money you receive. Easy to spin and ensures long term victory.
This piece uses the language of educational reform to argue for something fundamentally different: the political capture of schools by one ideological faction in place of another, which is precisely the problem it claims to be solving. The proposal for anonymous student reporting systems to surveil teachers is particularly troubling, not because political bias in classrooms is a trivial concern, but because the remedy proposed would do far more damage to the conditions of trust and professional integrity that make good teaching possible than any curriculum dispute ever could.
There is no British classroom and no British education system. The simple failure to understand this suggests the author is not credible.