The current draconian approach to the education of children and young people is turning our schools into exam factories and squeezing the joy and creativity out of the classroom.
As a result, more and more children and young people are being diagnosed with depression and the levels of unhappiness are soaring.
The latest National Education Union survey of more than 8,000 teachers asked about the mental health of children and young people. It showed that 83 per cent of the respondents had seen an increase in the number of student mental health problems in the past two years.
Education policy dictated by government and based on the presumption that everything that can be learnt should be measured is pushing schools and students to the limit.
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