Put the right folk in the right places

I am not much of a political enthusiast. In fact you could say I think the majority of politicians are a waste of time, liars, cheats, conmen, etc, etc. hence, I have always tried to shy away form political debates remembering what my Granny once said, “Never argue about politics or religion cos no-one ever wins”, even when it concerns my job- education. Yet, that becomes difficult when you can see that you are inevitably going to be affected by the actions of these people.

A whole load of sweat and toil has gone in to trying to improve my teaching and learning as is trying to disseminate the ideas I have for improvement to those around me. This is still going on every day I go to work and in the hours after work usually via social media. I am driven by a passion for use of technology in education and the ways in which I can see it inspiring and improving experiences for young people in schools. It seems that a lot of work done in this field is about to go to waste, however, at the hands of Mr Gove and his cronies.

Although I am no political analyst and the White Paper did not state much in the way of