Toby Young admits arrogance, running a school is harder than he thought.

[noblegiraffe]

www.standard.co.uk/news/education/toby-young-running-free-school-was-harder-than-i-thought-a3241746.html

Well this is pretty satisfying. Apparently high expectations aren't enough, and he regrets criticising educators.

[bojorojo]

Whenever I have seen TY on tv, he has come across as pugnacious, arrogant and overly secure in his own beliefs and unwilling to take advice. Hence 3 heads in 3 years! If he has learnt anything, hopefully it will be respecting other professionals and realising that journalists are not the saviours of education. I always wondered if he expected to recruit teachers from Eton and St Pauls Girls School - except that top people would run a mile from him! He seemed to embrace elitism and not include children living in the area of the school.

I wonder what his next project will be? London Mayor at the next election? Running the NHS? He surely thinks he knows better than anyone else!

[PiqueABoo]

Not that I mind him getting a bit of a kicking, but I think this is better at source:

schoolsweek.co.uk/toby-young-free-school-chief-executive/

[BoffinMum]

A lot of the free school crowd are admitting it's harder than they thought and ducking out now

Who knew???

Not gloating, honest.

[BoffinMum]

I've been in there and while I thought it was a reasonable school I would not have chosen it for my own DCs TBH

[iklboo]

In other news, ursine creatures defecate in heavily treed areas (that's to Toby, not to anyone who's posted here).

[Thenitnurse]

Oh are his kids finished there now?

[lljkk]

Indeed Nitnurse!!

[noblegiraffe]

The school doesn't have any exam results yet so his kids must still be there.

I do appreciate him admitting that he was wrong about teacher workload and that teachers do work exceptionally hard.

However, I also wonder why he is saying these things, as someone who has always seemed to court being an object of hate and derision.

[PiqueABoo]

" I also wonder why he is saying these things"

Well there is a correlation with some of the current Morgan memes e.g. those workload reports were published a few weeks ago. If Toby were still wandering around saying there isn't much of a workload it would be a bit off-message.