Yesterday I read in the FT an article called ”One year in a struggling British state school”, I cannot recommend it highly enough. It is impossible to read it without despairing at what this country has become.
Then I woke to the news that one hundred state schools are in danger of collapse. Not the venerable old buildings of Harrow, Eton and Winchester, but the state schools built in the 80’s.
This government having known of the potential disaster, the risk to life and the appalling state of our educational infrastructure, did nothing about it, until yesterday when they issued some warnings.
Nor does it seem to have a plan to fix the problem, which you might think would necessitate urgent plans to rebuild and make safe these schools, whatever the cost.
Doubtless as I write this some Labour shadow minister is being grilled about where they would find the money to fix this scandal.
I would rather know what successive Secretaries of State for Education have been doing while the schools they are responsible for collapse, children go hungry, teachers flee the profession and teacher training collapses.
In the past political careers would have been destroyed by this sort of thing, for ever. Now it is passed off with just a shrug of the shoulders.
Fixing that attitude is probably more important than fixing the schools, but neither will happen.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media
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One year in a struggling British state school
Battered by the pandemic and the rising cost of living, UK schools like Newman Roman Catholic College in Oldham are at the front line of a profound national crisis
I can’t find the ft article please can you post a link.