Greening`s attempts to justify her boss`s vanity
project were both implausible and disrespectful (Morning Star,14/04/17). How
dare this government deliberately underfund comprehensive schools and make cuts
in real pay for their teachers, and spend hundreds of millions on extending
grammar schools because, apparently, comprehensive schools are not good enough
for the well-off? How dare Greening say that children from "ordinary working
families" would no longer have to "just make do" by attending the local
comprehensive? Could an Education Secretary ever have been more insulting to a
profession which is so hard-working, despite constant criticism? Is it any
wonder there is such a huge teacher recruitment problem, something this
government refuses to acknowledge, or even care about.
Greening also suggested that these new grammars
will be prioritising "disadvantaged" children, and those from "ordinary
families, so that must mean the number of children attending grammars from
prosperous families will be reduced. As if that is going to happen! Tory MPs
know where their bread is buttered, and they are not going to create grammars in
their constituencies in which there is no room for their voters`
children.
Perhaps Mr Corbyn might like to mention this at
the next PMQs?
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