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Saturday, December 14, 2013

Disturbing Discovery

One of Michael Gove's temples of worker-consumer training is to be closed next April, having been rated inadequate last May and shown no improvement since. The brilliant Gove policy of allowing schools to use unqualified teachers has apparently led to the school using unqualified teachers; which has somehow resulted in pupils not being properly taught. They'll be puzzling over that one for a while. Still, as a colleague of Iain Duncan Smith, Michael Green and suchlike entrepreneurs of creative counterfactuality, Gove will be proud that the school used the name of Montessori despite refusing to go through the accreditation process or commit itself to hiring accredited teachers. This was not illegal because the name Montessori is not a registered trademark, and therefore lacks the educative and moral weight that goes with Macdonald's, Centrica or News Corporation.

The New Schools Network, which supports groups in applying to join the Gove free-for-all, dismissed the closure as a rare one-off involving a rotten apple we would all be better off without; while a spokesbeing for the Department of Gove said that state-funded schools were subject to less rigorous standards. Everyone agreed that they were thinking of the children.

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