The odious Toby Young has quit his job helping to set up new Free Schools

[noblegiraffe]

Great news to kick off the Easter Holidays!

www.standard.co.uk/news/education/toby-young-quits-role-as-head-of-new-schools-network-after-sexism-row-a3797816.html

Only 3 months later than it should have been after he quit the Office for Students board. No mention of his support for eugenics.

[SolidarityGdansk]

I think that is a great shame.

[Slightlyperturbedowlagain]

I think that is a great shame.
Because all schools need a good old fashioned misogynist to lead them

[noblegiraffe]

Why is it a shame? Because he was doing a good job? No new free schools have been announced in nearly a year so it’s unclear what he was even doing to earn his £90k.

[sanam2010]

TheSecondofHerName - can you share what you thought of the Head? She sounds like a very strong candidate on paper!

[SolidarityGdansk]

I find this public hounding of people out of jobs to be very unpleasant.

[SolidarityGdansk]

But since he is MN favourite villain. I guess this thread is going to be a pile in.

[noblegiraffe]

You think it’s fine for someone who argues for ‘progressive eugenics’ to be paid by the government to help set up schools?

[Slightlyperturbedowlagain]

I find this public hounding of people out of jobs to be very unpleasant.
Of course if the people appointing them did their job properly in the first place then there wouldn’t need to have been a public outcry because he wouldn’t have been appointed to start with. It beggars belief that Joe or Jane Smith applying for a bog-standard office job can be passed over due to dodgy social media output in the past and yet no one bothered checking Toby Young’s background before appointing him to a high-profile publicly-funded role. But maybe that’s just me

[Piggywaspushed]

Knew you'd be pleased noble !

Good riddance to him.

[noblegiraffe]

Maybe now he can go back to jobs he is more suited for like cocaine procurement and celebrity brown-nosing.

[noblegiraffe]

I thought you were talking about Toby for a minute, Second and got very confused at the word ‘feminist’

[livinginchiswick]

Wait. West Free has changed Head? Again?!

[camcam1]

Fabulous news. Doubt this man will be missed by many. Hope his dear wife can still afford her Tennis Club membership 🙄
Hope it doesn’t result in more Daily F*{l articles.

[megletthesecond]

He's obviously bored already and out of his depth. He'll have another vanity project lined up soon.

[PurpleCrowbar]

Oh dear. What a shame.

[noblegiraffe]

And he has been replaced by Tory favourite Mark Lehain, the head who wrote an article telling teachers they should take a pay cut to help out with the school funding crisis.

www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/exclusive-head-knowledge-rich-curriculum-campaign-replaces-toby-young

I know @Piggywaspushed is a big fan of his.

[noblegiraffe]

In fact, I’ve just done a search. Gold star for Piggy :

Piggywaspushed Thu 11-Jan-18 07:03:06
The thing about the NSN is leading it is now viewed as a route to government : lots of the have stayed in their post for hardly any length of time before progressing into the Tory high command (ish) so clearly that was what Toby was promised/ expected. He won't expect to stay in that role for a great deal longer. It will bore him for a start as I am not convinced he likes children/ teachers/ people at all. He expects more : such is his sense of entitlement.

I expect Mark Lehain to be in the NSN post before much longer and Toby to be elsewhere.

[Piggywaspushed]

Goodness! I always did say I should have been a spy!!

[Astronotus]

Well done Piggy. Although after leaving NSN he is probably not where he expected he would be!

[Piggywaspushed]

Not yet...

[noblegiraffe]

I didn’t realise that the director of the New Schools Network prior to Toby Young was Nick Timothy. And Dominic Cummings worked there at the same time that he was convincing Gove and the DfE to hand it a load of funding. It really is a line-up of Tory pricks isn’t it?

[Piggywaspushed]

Lehain certainly is one of those....