Labour’s fifty day deadline for three Blackpool schools to turn their performance round is no solution.
I support the Government’s Academy programme, but failing schools need to be turned into Academies now, not after more years of failure. They also need to be given genuine freedom to innovate and improve, yet Ed Balls has tied Academies down in local authority red tape. As a nation, we are falling behind. The Chief Inspector of Schools has said that improvement in all schools, across the board, has stalled. The Government has no answer, apart from more bureaucracy and targets.
It is not just the schools at the very bottom which should worry us. Too many pupils locally are failing to get five good GCSEs including maths and English. Imposing yet more Government targets on struggling schools will do nothing to improve pupil achievement. They need to focus on discipline and behaviour and getting that basics right, particularly English, Maths and bringing back modern languages into the mainstream.
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