News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The number of pupils suspended from school has reached a record high as experts warn that bad behaviour has increased as a result of lockdown school closures.
A battle is raging about what our schools are for, writes former top Government adviser Nicholas Tate. Woke propaganda is pushing out the essentials of a classical education, leaving pupils intellectually impoverished.
A former headteacher in London sacked for admonishing her own child for trying to grab hand sanitiser (having previously managed to get it in his eye) has just won an unfair dismissal case.
'A Kids Book About Immigration' is as awful as it sounds, says Dr. David McGrogan, who has read it so you – and your children – don't have to. Whatever happened to the subtle art of storytelling?
The fact that the Government has had to tell teachers to ban children from using mobile phones in schools is just a glimpse of what is wrong with the education system, says former Headteacher Mike Fairclough.
French media are reporting an exodus of scores of Jews from Paris schools due to increasing antisemitic "attacks and threats" as Heads say they cannot "ensure their protection".
Controversial education charity Educate and Celebrate that encouraged three year-olds to question their gender and wanted to ban 'Sir' and 'Miss' in schools has mysteriously shut down.
New Ofsted chief Sir Martyn Oliver recently admitted that Ofsted itself is one of the key problems facing teachers today. Too right, says ex-teacher Steven Tucker: what it calls 'good' is often nothing of the sort.
Over 300 schools have signed up to a Stonewall scheme that tells them to avoid calling children boys and girls and to install gender neutral toilets, despite the Government making clear this should not be going on.
Keir Starmer has claimed Labour's policy of slapping 20% VAT on private schooling will raise £1.7bn in tax revenue. But no evidence supports that claim because it fails to allow for pupils leaving for the state sector.
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