Where the teaching unions have a good point
The teaching unions have spent a lot of this week getting angry about one thing or another, but one of their number, the National Association of Head Teachers, did make a good point yesterday when reacting to Ofsted’s report on bright kids. Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers – not the most aggressive of the unions – said: ‘However, the government’s league table culture deserves a measure of the blame for this situation. For too long, schools have been forced into the middle ground, to get students over thresholds at the expense of both the most and least able. Education has become a numbers game,