The civil service’s anti-grammar evangelist Graham Savage admitted that he favoured an American-style “democratic” comprehensive ethos, regardless of whether it stunted academic performance. It was an emotional attempt at levelling classrooms regardless of the cost to children’s life chances, and it is a mistake that neither the Labour nor the Conservative party has attempted to rectify. The destruction of grammar schooling, a system that Sir Keir benefited from, was never about widening opportunity. We once possessed an educational culture better geared toward social mobility regardless of whether one’s parents were toilet cleaners or CEOs, and we deliberately eliminated it. Socio-economic deprivation sadly holds back many students, but this is often an issue that begins in the home and impacts the classroom- not vice versa. Yet our system lags behind much of the post-industrial world. School spending has been partly hammered by cuts over the past decade, but the UK remains one of the biggest bankrollers of education in the world. Starmer also fundamentally misinterprets Britain’s educational inequality as a casualty of unfair finances. Governments of all partisan stripes should be trusted not to attempt such a cheap and short-sighted shot, and instead invest in serious strategies to resurrect Britain’s flagging schooling system. Yet as the Conservative Party continues to lack inspiring educational reforms, Labourites could well garner support for misguided assaults on the independent sector. A 2018 review by Baines Cutler Solutions and KPMG demonstrated how axing this exemption will create a £416 million bill for the government within five years when accounting for the pupils that would be pushed back into state schooling as private schools would be forced to hike rates. The idea that this will accumulate enough cash to drag state schools toward a bright new future is nonsense.
Such plans would first and foremost, slap VAT on private schools, which they are exempt from under a charitable status. While Starmer is yet to ascend to the power possessed by historic radicals, his plans to rob independent schools of their charitable status risk many of the pitfalls such events set in motion. The speaker is Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. This is not Russia in the months preceding its Bolshevik putsch, nor France as the guillotine operators began to sharpen their blades, but among the anonymous glass and steel structures of Birmingham’s revamped city centre. One of his remarks, consistent with his previous comments on the topic, is his ambition of cracking down on the liberties of non-government schooling.
Somewhere across the country, the governing party remains embroiled in an internal crisis.Īs he begins to speak he outlines some of the ideas he plans to implement, should he and his team displace the incumbent rulers.
A sweaty mid-summer crowd waits with bated breath as a progressive politician is set to deliver a surprise speech. Georgia L Gilholy is a Young Voices UK contributor.
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