David Cameron was told on BBC 1 Breakfast TV that all he had going for him in comparison to Gordon Brown is charm. However, I thought he was smarmy. His policy on schools was not properly thought out. He promised discipline in the classrooms, giving teachers the power to control their classes. They already have this power, and if a teacher does not have control of a class then that teacher should not be in charge of a class. He promised that parents would have contracts with the schools. A viewer emailed into the programme and asked where David Cameron had been for the last ten years, because they already have these contracts. For years organisations have been struggling to get children with special needs into mainstream schools to give them some kind of normality into their lives. However, David Cameron blames children with special needs for the breakdown in Britain and he stated that his policy would be to exclude these children from mainstream schools. Charming! David Cameron stated that he would do away with the appeal process allowing children to challenge exclusion orders. That would be unlawful, because the same body that reached the decision at first instance cannot hear the appeal because of the appearance of bias.
David Cameron's School Report: Spends his time daydreaming. Must do better.
Remarkably biased findings.
ReplyDeleteParents of handicapped children are at odds on their children being in normal school due to bullying of them at the schools.
This more than implies that control of classrooms and schools is not in place, and since the majority of state schoolteachers have a left liberal bias this is a repeat of the situation in our schools in the 70's.
I can only presume you are in favour of the current BBC bias in its reporting.
I thought that the BBC reporting and questioning of David Cameron on his policy was balanced.
ReplyDeletecassandrina: have you ever met the parent of a child with special needs? They want the best for their children. In many cases, this is just allowing them to go to normal school and live normal lives. I work with these kids and often their parents spend half their lives fighting their kids' corners against people like you. Sorry to get emotional but this needs to be said and it is important.
ReplyDeleteIgnore cassandrina after all he/she is a right-wing whinger and doesn't need much of an excuse to attack the liberals and lefties.
ReplyDeleteJohn: Thank you, I was going to respond to the criticism which I did not think was fair, but at the time I could not trust myself to keep calm so I only answered the last point. Now I don't need to.
ReplyDeletezinzin: You may have a point.