Why ‘middle-class’ pursuits must be central to the curriculum
Social engineering has usurped learning as the guiding classroom principle
It was a Labour government that launched the biggest revolution in education in the latter part of the last century, freeing schools from the chokehold of local council control.
Now it is another Labour regime, sadly cut from a different cloth, that is planning to re-politicise the classroom, using social engineering as its guiding principle rather than learning.
The education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has promised to make ‘social justice’ the centrepiece of her curriculum shake-up, the consultation for which ends today.
Phillipson has said she wants to crack the ‘class ceiling’ and help children reach their full potential, whatever their circumstances – noble goals presumably shared by all politicians, supported by everybody, but not best realised by limiting youngsters’ access to knowledge.
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