A row over free speech has erupted after a talk by alt-right journalist Milo Yiannopoulos, the controversial Trump supporter at his former school was cancelled over fear of protests. Parents and pupils have been angered by this censorship by a “counter extremism unit.” How much better it would have been for sixth-formers at Simon Langton Grammar School to …
An American exchange teacher at my school in the sixties addressed member of the staffroom and asked why it was that the UK did not get up-to-date, like the States, and elect a president to be head of state. There was a polite silence and then one of his hosts pointed out that we had …
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/history-and-the-royal-familys-secret-archives-77snzpsdq Sir, Toby Young’s call for business leaders to be made headteachers (report, Oct 29) should be rejected by teachers and parents. Young wants business leaders to apply their managerial experience to the running of schools — but schools are not businesses, which exist for the benefit of owners and shareholders. They are human institutions …
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