Rick Lowe

David Cameron, British Prime Minister, writes:

"Why should we put up with a school content to let a child sit at the back of the class, swapping Facebook updates? Or one where pupils and staff count down the hours to the end of term without ever asking why B grades can’t be turned into As?"

Sounds like he's talking about our school system doesn't he?

Well there's more.

He says:

"From January, we are going to sort out league tables so that everyone involved in schools can see for the first time whether they are doing as well as they should.

"From June, we will release data about the performance of all pupils from the National Pupil Database. Of course, it will be anonymous, but you will be able to see what happened to individual pupils: where they started, the progress they made and where they ended up. We’ve also made spending data public. All this will allow people to spot the truth and confront failure where it exists."

And if that's not enough he notes:

"The point of education is to change lives. It’s not good enough for teachers in shire counties to be satisfied with half of children getting five good GCSEs, when Mossbourne Academy achieves 82 per cent in Hackney."

Finally he says:

"Schools must help children to go further than anyone ever thought they could. We must give parents the evidence they need to get together to demand better. So that is what we are doing."

Read Cameron's entire letter here…

Apparently he's annoyed lots of people with his letter Katherine Birbalsingh writes, and I agree with her that's a good thing.

Birbalsingh also notes that "free schools" i.e. taxpayer funded, are not omnipotent, and I agree with her there as well.

I just wish our political class would follow suit here and upset the status quo. Our kids deserve better.