Welcome back to a new school year. Like you all (I hope), SecEd has been away for the summer, recharging its batteries. In this first editorial of the year, I would like to tackle three key debates that have sprung up during the summer.
It was bizarre to see just how many gaffs the government managed as it tried to jump on the Olympics bandwagon. All ministers had to do was fire off some sound-bytes (goodness knows they’re good at that) and they would have got their headlines.
What they actually managed to achieve was to quite glaringly illustrate just how much school sport has been hindered of late. The prime minister kicked off the gaffs by accusing teachers of being unwilling to take on extra-curricular school sport – this is so far from the reality I see in schools it’s not funny.
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