Labour have bombarded schools with red tape  

Yesterday’s debate on the Children’s Schools and Families Bill really brought to the fore the anger that parents, teachers and significant others feel at the way the Government has bombarded schools with legislation, regulation and bureaucracy. I have been inundated with letters, emails and faxes raising huge concerns about the contents of this Bill. Who says the public is apathetic? The parents that have contacted me about the Children’s Schools and Families Bill say what they want are schools where their children can be educated and prepared to face the world around them confidently. They want order, they want discipline and they want their children properly schooled. What they don’t want is for their children to be a part of Government experiment or guinea pigs to test out the next new media headline of an idea mapped out on the back of a fag packet. Parents have...