Perspective: This Education Experiment Is Just Not Working ; Brenda Bullock, a Retired Teacher, Continues Her Account of Why She Believes Modern Schooling Is Failing Youngsters

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By the late 1980s, education in this country was reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution in China under Mao where intellectuals and professionals were dragged from their homes by fanatical Red Guards and forced to work in the fields.

Here it had also become easy to get rid of such thorns in the flesh, because head teachers and hand-picked governors who followed the line, local authorities who would never back an individual teacher against their head and the unions who wouldn't defend such members against wrongful dismissal, all conspired to purge the profession of such heretics.

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Perspective: This Education Experiment Is Just Not Working ; Brenda Bullock, a Retired Teacher, Continues Her Account of Why She Believes Modern Schooling Is Failing Youngsters

Do you remember the case of Jack Smith, the primary school teacher from Hampshire, who was sacked by his school governors in the late 1980s for sitting his children in rows facing the front, giving them spelling tests and getting them to recite their t...

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