To really dislike Bridget Phillipson?

[Sensiblyplease]

I just absolutely can’t stand the woman.

The lady seems to be making decisions based on personal prejudices and causing intentional division in our education system.
She’s not listening to anyone, and the consequences her decisions are having is far too impactful to ignore. As someone in her power she should model balanced politics, based on evidence, instead of in-sighting hate and division.

My children are in state school- we’ve had 3
more children come into their year group with SEN but no EHCPs as their previous independent schools could cope without one. The parents inform me it’ll take a few years and that’s if they get one- and then they can either go back to their previous independent school (as apparently they won’t have to pay VAT with an ECHP?) or have the help they need according to the results of the ECHP.

Im just so angry. I have nothing against these children and can understand they can’t afford the VAT increase and needed to move back into state schools, but it’s now really disrupted the class. The TA is apparently out the class all the time now and the class teacher has 32 children on her own. It appears that Bridget’s insistence and personal hate against the private sector is damaging to state school children. It’s really pissing me off - our children’s education is important and not to be messed around with.

I feel like the woman likes a good headline but is prepared to throw our children’s education away in order to meet her personal objectives / vendettas.

What is she actually doing for state schools? Her headline grabbing titles is deflecting from her actually trying to improve state education in any meaningful and impactful way. 6500 teachers - so my kids get 1/3 of a teacher for their school? That’s shocking. More children entering the state system now puts pressure on their school, and their teachers. What is she actually doing to address this. Where is she magic-ing these trained and qualified teachers from? What is she doing to retain teachers and help with their current work load?

I’m fed up with her agenda effecting normal people. We need someone with a level head to sort schools out. End of rant!

I know. That’s why reform is needed. The wage bill is high because the NHS employs large numbers of highly skilled people whose expertise entails years of training. You don’t need to know my professional background, it’s irrelevant. My understanding of how society works and the role of taxation is clearly superior to yours.

I disagree with your assertion.

You lack a professional background I think, and that’s fine, but it has a huge bearing on the weight others give to your posts.

Moving on.

You lack manners and that’s not fine. As it happens, you couldn’t be more wrong.

I will certainly not take lessons in civility from you.

As to the rest, we shall never know, although deductive reasoning helps…

I haven’t offered you any. 🤷‍♀️

Good.

Back to the thread.

Noting the Government's controversial crackdown on private school VAT, Phillipson reaffirmed Labour's plan, claiming "parents can choose where they educate their children", but "I make no apology as Education Secretary for choosing to invest the money that we will raise in our state schools".

What money?