A flood of crap

The last two paragraphs in editor Jackson’s editorial (June 4) should be carved in stone for all to see. It gives the main causes for education’s woes.

I well remember secret lunches and a glass of wine under the stage of the assembly hall for me and the senior lady teacher, set up by the caretaker, where the problems that flooded the system from non-teaching experts took the steam out of good teachers. We discussed how we could trim them back and stay employed.

The flood of crap grew. I chucked it in and returned to a country school, and with the help of down-to-earth country people put efforts into teaching, refusing to engage in the paper war and constant regurgitated