Please read this article from the Guardian.
For any non-English readers, the Tories have been trying to replace state education with so-called "academies" (run for profit by corporations rather than for the education of students).
The OFSTED results (schools inspectors) gave the "academies" terrible reports, with good reason.
Suddenly, however, this spring, the "academies" were getting startlingly good reports and the right wing press (the Torygraph and the Daily Mail) were trumpeting their success.
Gosh! Maybe it's a GOOD thing to replace our free state education with profit-raking greed …
So what was happening?
By law, schools are only allowed half a day's notice of an OFSTED inspection. A friend of a friend who knows I love doing this kind of thing passed me this document, which I sent on to the Guardian's education department as well as local papers and other like-minded Tory-baiters:
It appears that the Tories, being a (cough) open and honest government (choke … gag) have been secretly giving their "academies" two weeks notice (sometimes more) of OFSTED inspections and parachuting in better teachers (only for inspection day), removing disruptive pupils, plastering over the cracks and slapping on a fresh coat of paint; in fact doing everything they can to fake a great report.
I had asked the Guardian to run with this and see where it went and it seems they have done just that.
Now all we have to do is kick the fuckers out at the next election and perhaps we can return to a decent education system, not one run for profit by filthy Tory financial donors.
Whistleblowing is a wonderfully rewarding hobby. I'd recommend it to anyone.
6 comments:
Well I suppose it had to come out, just hope it can work out well after this…
Thanks for the lift and the company today, have put photos on blog and maybe should have had you done photoshop on my photo I choose to put on my profile.
It'll never work out well as long as there's a Tory still drawing breath.
Yes, great meal and a fun day.
Great work, hero of the kinder! How dare they $^@& with children's education.
Petrea, we both know that they'll mess with ANYTHING if there's a profit to be raked off it.
Good job!! Excellent "hobby" for you.
It's a rewarding one, Ms.M. Poking the government with a stick is every voter's right.
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