Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Gove - school's out
Gove has been moved out of the education portfolio and replaced with Nicky Morgan.
Yet to see what Ms Morgan will be like but one hopes there will be less turmoil for schools with so many systems currently being changed beyond recognition. Cameron really is wielding that axe ...
Goodbye Gove ... won't be missing you at all 
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Please forgive me for not getting your point, Quhomesly. Are you saying that if anyone doesn't entirely accept your view about traditional grammar schools, they are probably a "student on a bike" coming out with a "tirade" that's "... anti 11+ blah blah blah ..."? What does that mean?
Do you think Mr Gove was simply trying to reintroduce traditional grammar schools? If so, why didn't he say so? Or did I miss that speech?
It seemed to me that what he was doing was more like Charter schools in the United States.
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Permalink Reply by dawnage on
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'Traditional' education worked for whom? And why do you think this?
It didn't work for the 90% or so who did not make it to schools which selected on academic ability. Nor for those students with SEN or who are EAL, I can assure you.
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Schools have never been run to a union agenda(perhaps you could explain what that might be?) Downhills Park parents, governors and staff were all united in that they did NOT want their school to become an academy. Nevertheless Gove simply forced it on them. The deeds of the school were handed over to a private company, answerable to nobody but mr gove. So it was taken out of any local, planned educational perspective. How on earth is that for the pupils benefit?
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He's taken his coat ... and run into the hills. Judging by his last comment he's bored of his own arguments and fallen asleep, poor chap.
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Permalink Reply by Neil on
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Philip. How can you be so wrong? Don't you know about the recent Ofsted report which showed that Downhills Park primary school is performing much better after being taken over by Mr Gove and the Academy?
Those people you mention who opposed this successful plan to mend a failing school should be ashamed.
They have been proved wrong and should apologise to the parents and pupils for their scaremongering and sabotage.
Haringey Council, as you know, has an appalling record in running schools and has been at the bottom of UK league tables for 20 years until recently. The government reforms are working wonders and many schools in Haringey have never had such good results. Give respect where it is due! And celebrate that working class pupils are getting a much better start in life!
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The inference here is that the agenda of unions is in some way at odds with pupils' benefit.
What a strange conclusion to draw, given that the teaching unions consist of people who have actually dedicated their entire careers to the education, support and protection of children. Rather than, say, someone who went into journalism and then politics.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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The Torygraph reporter/readers are not happy with the re-shuffle. Poor things.
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Henry Stewart says farewell to "Mr Sloppy". Commenting on Michael Gove's very peculiar relationship to facts. http://www.localschoolsnetwork.org.uk/2014/07/memories-of-mr-sloppy...
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Mr Gove had a good record of improving results for pupils. I hope he returns to the job after the election. The Times and most papers have praised his record. The Times wrote:
"Mr Gove was shaping up to be one of the few secretaries of state for education to leave a legacy. In four years he created more than 4,000 academies. He made the curriculum tougher and more academic. At the same time, standards rose because schools were instructed to hit demanding targets. Mr Gove did not allow poverty to be used as an excuse for poor performance."
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