Times are difficult for teachers at the moment. The government has frozen the pay of teachers, decimated their pension structure, devalued the worth of GCSEs and demonstrated that it does not trust teachers, school leaders, parents and governors to do the best for their schools and communities.
Education minister Michael Gove thinks that teachers should have the same respect in society that doctors and lawyers have, but his academy programme allows for staff without qualified teacher status to deliver the curriculum.
Elsewhere, we have seen the selling off of 31 school playing fields, the scrapping of the two hour per week of PE curriculum time, and the well documented abandonment of the School Sports Partnerships.
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