I mean the creation of free schools which allows different approaches to be tried, and for the successful and those with appeal to pupils and parents to prosper, versus the latter being captives to politicised unions and doctrinaire approaches.
The curriculum things in the guardian article is a separate question, and one I have less interest in, though I daresay its necessitated by the guardianista grip on the system. You get a sniff of the kind of problems Gove was facing in the article " cannot stand at the front of a classroom and make children chant the works of Keats instilling in them the belief that the only voices worth hearing in our society are those of a dead, white, English, male establishment figure"
This narrow, dogmatic and oh so predictable mindset, has become a large part of the problem through it's pervasiveness. Sadly I suspect government needs to enforce minimum standards when the system is full of pc ideologues who have destroyed social mobility.
This woman, moreover, was not driven from her job, but chose to leave as she didn't like the conditions. By contrast Katherine Birbalsingh who dared, as an ethnic minority woman, to vocally support Gove's agenda, was literally driven and hounded out by the commissars of the education system.
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ps God knows the teaching profession is also full of the most noble contributors in our society; people who must spend as much time acting as social workers or triage nurses as a result of social breakdown.something cultivated by the same people who brought us progressive approaches to education.
