The Tories recently revealed that schools are being inundated with massive amounts of necessary reading. They estimate that the government has sent them documents containing almost 1.3 million words over a 12 month period. This is one and half times the number of words in the traditional King James or Authorised version of the Bible! Between April 2008 and April 2009 schools were e-mailed 3,982 pages of documents.
Michael Gove complained, "Instead of giving teachers the powers they need over discipline or fixing the devaluation of the examination system, Ed Balls is swamping schools with such a tide of paper that it is obvious heads cannot read more than a fraction.
I am sure that schools would benefit from a knowledge of some of the esoteric and politically correct publications, but it is just overload. Why not save the money and employ more teachers?
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