Letter from a curious parent
Author and broadcaster Michael Rosen has a few things to say to the education secretary
Dear Nadhim Zahawi, do you think curbs on university entrance will be levelling up?
Michael RosenEven the DfE’s own assessment has found restricting access to loans would shut out ethnic minority students
Dear Nadhim Zahawi, teaching empathy is difficult while Tory scandals pile up
Michael RosenThe party’s contempt for refugees and the goings on in Westminster make conveying moral values a tough job
Dear Nadhim Zahawi, your Great Big Bag of Big Ideas feels uncannily empty
Michael RosenWhat was it that your predecessors got wrong that you’re now having to put right?
Dear Nadhim Zahawi, did you even glance at existing political impartiality law?
Michael RosenYour hastily bashed out document ignores what schools have been doing for years under your predecessors’ guidelines
Dear Nadhim Zahawi, your ‘levelling up’ in schools is jiggery-pokery
Michael RosenThose looking up the plans for education are struggling to find what hard cash is going to be given to schools
Dear Nadhim Zahawi, your praise for teachers is just hooey if you don’t make schools safer
Michael RosenYou offer 7,000 air filters against Covid and expect retired teachers to put themselves in harm’s way. Who are you kidding?
Dear Nadhim Zahawi, please sort out Ofsted’s lack of humanity. There’s no excuse
Michael RosenSchools need support, not trials led by unsympathetic inspectors who don’t take Covid into account
Dear Nadhim Zahawi, children need to express their grief about Covid as well as to ‘catch up’
Michael RosenThe arts, squeezed from the curriculum, could offer a chance for pupils to explore their feelings and worries
Dear Nadhim Zahawi, the Tories vowed to ‘eradicate illiteracy’ years ago. What went wrong?
Michael RosenThe education secretary should know the phonics system has been around since 2011 and is ‘proven to work’
Dear Gavin Williamson, now we know what your plans are for Covid-safe classrooms ... er, um
Michael RosenA car-crash interview revealed the lack of action over ventilation in English schools
Dear Gavin Williamson, if Latin in schools is about levelling up, I have other ideas
Michael RosenWhy not emulate private schools with class sizes, playing fields, music facilities and modern languages?
Dear Gavin Williamson, you are fiddling with anthems and phones: why not try helping schools?
Michael RosenBritain is scarcely ‘one nation’, nor does it have ‘open doors’ or ‘celebrate differences’ as the new anthem claims
Dear Gavin Williamson, here’s some helpful reading for another nice mess
Michael RosenI’ve had a twinge of sympathy for you after the row over ‘catch-up’ for children’s lost education during lockdowns
Dear Gavin Williamson, teenagers use mobile phones. Get with the times
Michael RosenWhy not applaud the explosion of literacy in texts and posts? Better to welcome rather than vilify a tool that can play a part in learning
Dear Gavin Williamson, schools need kindness in this Covid crisis but you bang on about behaviour
Michael RosenJudging by the education secretary’s speech, ‘behaviour, behaviour, behaviour’ could be the Tories’ next election slogan
Dear Gavin Williamson, pupils are not the only ones who need to 'catch up'. You do, too
Michael RosenPlease reassure us schools will be safe and you will soon be on top of the GCSE and A-levels situation this year
Dear Gavin Williamson, could you tell parents what a fronted adverbial is?
Michael RosenFamilies homeschooling in lockdown are discovering the full horror of the primary grammar curriculum – and they’re mystified
Dear Gavin Williamson, schools spread Covid. That's life or death for parents and teachers
Michael RosenThe poet and author finds himself choking back feelings of despair and rage after his own three months in intensive care
Dear Gavin Williamson, claw back some respect by pausing Sats, league tables and Ofsted
Michael RosenIt’s time to listen to teachers and heads who are calling for primary tests to be suspended because of coronavirus
Dear Gavin Williamson, here's how to avoid more exam catastrophes
Michael RosenPerhaps now Eton agrees that GCSEs are past it, you might talk to experts about a new way forward
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