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To: Education Secretary Nicky Morgan
Please stop schools becoming academies
I wish the government to stop more schools becoming academies. This is not the automatic take back of all schools. I also with the academies that do exist to have to publish reports on spending, profit, progress and school conditions. These should be supported by regular inspections, teacher and student input, as well as leadership speculation and parent comments.
Why is this important?
I find it shameful that when people look at our country, they see people making money by squeezing the education system, lowering the amount of money spent on each child. These academies have caused job losses for many teachers and the quality of schools has declined, speaking from personal experience. This new industry needs to see tight restrictions and needs to be open and transparent for us to inspect and scrutinise. Without this, we run the risk of seeing many people missing out in the highest quality of their education and cause a large decrease in the number of good, trained and experience staff that can keep standards high.
Despite what David Cameron has said about schools improving under academies, this does not make them better places, reform to a state controlled system, with changes to ofsted, can easily improve standards.
