Priorities: Tories fail to provide funding for schools to recover from Covid-19 because they want YOUR kids to fail
Gavin Williamson: he could provide the funding needed to help your kids catch up with the education they’ve missed due to the Covid lockdowns – he just doesn’t want to.
Tory priorities in action: they have billions to waste on PPE provision contracts for donors who were never going to be able to provide anything, but they absolutely refuse to spend enough for your kids’ education to recover from the effects of the pandemic.
The gap between what is needed and what they’re offering is apparently so wide that England’s school recovery commissioner (did you even know there was such a person) has resigned in disgust:
The education recovery commissioner for England, Sir Kevan Collins, has resigned in a row over the lack of “credible” Covid catch-up funding.
Sir Kevan took on the role as catch-up tsar in February to develop a long-term plan to help pupils make up for lost learning during the pandemic.
But on Wednesday he stepped down saying the government’s funding for the plan “falls far short of what is needed”.
Head teachers labelled the £1.4bn cash over three years as a “damp squib”.
The Education Policy Institute had calculated that a catch-up funding recovery would need £13.5bn – and Sir Kevan was reported as having put forward plans costing £15bn.
The government’s proposal represents £50 per pupil per year.
The government’s response has been to thank Sir Kevan for his work, and to claim that already £3 billion has been put into helping school pupils catch up.
So that’s an admission that they’re providing less than a third of what is needed.
The tragedy of this is that the government could magic up the cash for this in a heartbeat – but our dunce of an Education Secretary, Gavin “Algorithm” Williamson, together with Boris Johnson himself, simply doesn’t want to.
To explain: governments create money and invest it in the economy wherever their priorities lie. Last year, Johnson created £300 billion to keep the UK ticking over during the Covid lockdowns.
So, if the government really wanted to invest in your child’s education, it would create the money for it and pump it into the education system.
The only conclusion to be had is that the Tories don’t want your child to be properly educated. Why should they? Their children are privately-educated.
Source: School catch-up tsar resigns over lack of funding – BBC News
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