Andy Burnham is right, but we need to call this what it was: state-sanctioned vandalism.
The Conservatives systematically stripped sport, music, and drama from state school timetables, dismissing them as frivolous extras while preserving them for elite private schools. They treated working-class children as industrial units to be tested and processed, not young people who deserve a full, rich life.
The defense from the educational establishment was always economic efficiency. Teach the basics, pump up the league tables, ignore the rest. It was a narrow, philistine view of education that left an entire generation poorer for it.
Every child deserves access to sport, instruments, and the arts, not as a luxury, but as a birthright. If we only teach state school kids to read and count while private schools teach theirs to create, perform, and lead, we are simply baking inequality into the timetable.
@darrenpjones Please stand as a leadership candidate,do not let the self serving Burnham be appointed without challenge and definitely without mandate .
@AFCSTAUSTELL@GarethRowett@swpleague Good luck guys,big challenges off the pitch but in a great place on it with this pair I/c.Absolutely what the club needs right now.
@labourlewis Incredibly refreshing to have a politician factually justify a policy rather than just denigrate the views of others or rely on sound bites/click https://t.co/SfVGsgc3xW refreshing it would be if we could return to intelligent rather than abuse as debate.
@newquay_afc Don’t forget what an amazing job your manager had done this season,taking a team up a level,recruiting well,getting the right support around him and sniffing the play offs.That’s quality.Look after him.
@HodgeLuke@UtdPride@WeAreTheOverlap There was lots to be positive about yesterday and I agree we should have started Tolaj yesterday and brought him off when tired rather than bring him in on late.
Monday keeps us in or probably waiting another season.