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Gove is out.

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VivaLeBeaver · 15/07/2014 10:41

Best news of the year.

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VivaLeBeaver · 15/07/2014 10:43

bbc

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JJsleeping · 15/07/2014 10:49

Lets hope his replacement continues with his reforms

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VivaLeBeaver · 15/07/2014 10:52

I think when someone is so despised by a huge majority of teachers he's doing something wrong.

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MrsHerculePoirot · 15/07/2014 10:53

Ding dong the witch is dead! HURRAH!

ShineSmile · 15/07/2014 10:56

Hurray! But I can't wait for the conservatives to go out.

JJsleeping · 15/07/2014 11:01

To make an omelet you have to crack a few eggs. If in reforming education he has upset a few teachers then it was worth it.

MillyMollyMama · 15/07/2014 12:43

He had a few good ideas but too often dictated to people and wasted a lot of money on pet projects, eg free schools. The new Education Minister is a Mum so might have a better approach to the job and listen to the people with vast experience in education instead of dismissing them in such a superior way.

Spindelina · 15/07/2014 13:51

Gove is a dad. Didn't stop him....

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VivaLeBeaver · 15/07/2014 14:52

I'm not a teacher, just a parent.

Dd is goi g into Yr 9 in sept. the first year to not do gcses. The teachers haven't been told what the new exams will be.

I can't help but feel its going to be chaos and my dd will suffer.

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Happy36 · 15/07/2014 15:05

JJsleeping, let´s not hope that, please.

VivaLeBeaver, don´t worry. Your daughter´s teachers will have her best interests at heart and the exams. are a long way off. You could write to your MP to try to speed up the process too.

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VivaLeBeaver · 15/07/2014 15:06

Thanks Happy. That's a good idea.

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MillyMollyMama · 15/07/2014 15:28

Spindelina. I was just hoping the the new Minister would have more empathy with educational colleagues and maybe have a less bombastic approach. Often Mums do have these skills.

Rivercam · 15/07/2014 15:33

I cheered when I heard the news. He's not been popular.

TalkinPeace · 15/07/2014 17:36

THe replacement is a Christian Evangelist
another one who "believes" rather than looks at evidence.
Oh well, it was good news for an instant

GalaxyInMyPants · 15/07/2014 19:20

PI wonder if he'll move hs dd to a private school now?

MyballsareSandy · 16/07/2014 07:58

Doubt very much if he'll send his DD to private as Greycoat is as good as private without the fees. He's very lucky to get her in there.

mumtoateen · 16/07/2014 08:13

Thank God. He hasn't 'reformed education'. Made the new year Eight's LEARN a text off by heart, no support in the exam, so if they forget, they're screwed.

BettyBolognese · 16/07/2014 08:25

The new Education Minister is a Mum so might have a better approach to the job and listen to the people with vast experience in education instead of dismissing them in such a superior way.

What the hell? What has being a Mum got to do with it? Michael Gove is a Dad?

GalaxyInMyPants · 16/07/2014 08:45

Must admit I'm more than a little annoyed with Cameron seeming to think that promoting some "photogenic" women to the cabinet will appeal to female voters.

Its all a bit patronising. I'd rather the best person for the job got it and the large proportion of women seems to suggest that they've been positively discriminated.

taxi4ballet · 16/07/2014 09:59

It could be out of the frying pan and into the fire. Only time will tell.

OneMoreMum · 16/07/2014 12:43

The new minister is white, middle class and was privately educated at a Christian girls' school then Oxford. What's the betting she's at least as out of touch as Gove when it comes to the majority of children in mixed sex non-selective state schools. The fundamentalist Christian voted against gay marriage angle really is the icing on the cake!

Personally loved the BBC statement that she was one of two mothers promoted to the cabinet - strangely no mention of how many fathers in the cabinet...

GalaxyInMyPants · 16/07/2014 12:48

Its a shame they can't seem to find someone with more of an education background to do the job.

OneMoreMum · 16/07/2014 12:53

Realistically if they're still in after the election I bet they will re-shuffle again and lots of Cameron's old cronies will sneak back in anyway so she might not last long....

taxi4ballet · 16/07/2014 14:40

Funny how so much space in the press has been given to the sex of the new appointees, and how these promotions are somehow only 'because they are women'.

Clearly we still live in a sexist society.

Otherwise nobody would have noticed at all. It wouldn't have occurred to anyone that there was any relevance, let alone that it was worth mentioning.

Nicky Morgan takes over the educational reins. Don't see how someone who studied law and specialised in corporate mergers and acquisitions is the right person for the job though...

Happy36 · 16/07/2014 16:28

OneMoreMum re: your point about mothers AND FATHERS in the cabinet, I couldn't agree more. DC himself gained much sympathy (deservedly) when his son sadly died as voters understand that a fathet is a parent too.

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