The education system is still failing our children
Comments(1) As many children struggle into school this week in the icy conditions to sit GCSE modules the latest set of figures released show that some 50 per cent of pupils failed to get at least five A* to C grades last summer, including the key subjects of English and mathematics, it was disclosed. For all Ed Balls’s talk of class war, after twelve years of Labour he oversees an education system where there is a gulf in achievement between independent schools and state comprehensives. We want to close the educational gap between the fortunate few and the rest. That’s why the Conservatives have outlined plans to improve the quality of teaching, give heads proper powers to crack down on bad behaviour and allow educational providers to open a new generation of independently run state schools. Only then will we reverse the widening gap which currently acts as a block on opportunity for the poorest.
“For all Ed Balls’s talk of class war, after twelve years of Labour he oversees an education system where there is a gulf in achievement between independent schools and state comprehensives”
That is the reason why Ed Balls can talk of a class war. He has orchestrated a collapse in standards in state schools and then uses this difference to attack the independent schools.
Balls is keen to drop everything to the lowest common denominator – not encourage pupils to do well and learn.
It would be no good for him and his fellow socialist if State School pupils did well – got good degrees and a good job and vote Tory now would it?
Labours made me laugh – their reply to Tory proposals for tax incentives for marriage were “social engineering”…..
well they should know !!!!