Extract from Commons statement on Covid-19: Education Settings - July 6
Wednesday, 7 July 2021 08:26
Tom Hunt (Ipswich) (Con): While all these huge issues are going on,
the largest teaching union in the country, the National Education
Union has said there is an “urgent” need to “decolonise” the
curriculum and how classroom layouts, in fact, represent
colonialism. Does my right hon. Friend agree that there is probably
a more urgent need for the largest teaching union in the country
finally to focus on the urgent need for kids to catch up on their
learning, and for it to work...Request free trial
(Ipswich) (Con): While all these huge issues are going on,
the largest teaching union in the country, the National Education Union has said there
is an “urgent” need to “decolonise” the curriculum and how
classroom layouts, in fact, represent colonialism. Does my right
hon. Friend agree that there is probably a more urgent need for the
largest teaching union in the country finally to focus on the
urgent need for kids to catch up on their learning, and for it to
work constructively with the Government, perhaps for the first
time, to try to ease these remaining restrictions?
The Secretary of State for Education (): My hon.
Friend is a new Member, and he arrives here with a lot of optimism.
I reassure him that we have a broad, balanced and knowledge-rich
curriculum of which we should be proud, although we always work to
make sure it gets even better.
It is with some sadness that I say the National Education Union started off by
saying it did not want teachers to teach pupils in person, and then
said it did not want teachers to teach students online. It starts
to make me question whether the National Education Union really
believes in education at all. We will wait and see, and hopefully
it will be more co-operative and hard-working in the next academic
year.
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