Calvin Robinson

Calvin Robinson is a teacher, governor and education consultant

Kemi Badenoch is right to take on Critical Race Theory

Schools have a responsibility to maintain political neutrality. The Education Act (1996) states that governors and head teachers have a duty to secure balanced treatment of political ideas. The Teachers’ Standards says ‘teachers uphold public trust in the profession and maintain high standards of ethics and behaviour, within and outside school, by ensuring that personal

My students shouldn’t be made to wear face masks

Has anyone who is recommending the use of masks in schools ever spent any significant amount of time working with young people? It seems unlikely. Children simply will not wear their masks correctly, if at all. Girls will constantly be adjusting them; boys will be flicking them across the room and pulling each others’ elastic