The Easter holidays may already seem like a long-distant memory, but I hope that you enjoyed them and found some time to relax and refresh. I say this conscious of the bleak headlines of recent weeks about the pressures and challenges faced by teachers in our schools, and the criticism levelled at some multi-academy trusts over issues like the pay of chief executives.
These are important subjects and it is right to air them. But I worry about the extent to which a daily diet of negative headlines affects the public’s perception of our education system in general and our schools in particular. I worry what impact that this perception then has on teacher recruitment (at a time when we so urgently need more teachers) and on the morale of staff, parents and pupils.
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