I feel so passionately about this but I'm just about remembering that not everyone will agree.
You can sometimes pick up straws in the wind here; and sometimes you pick up a whole haystack. There are too many threads now about teachers being managed by fear and statistics. It appears to be driven by fear in the leadership teams. A lot of it is fear of Ofsted, which is driven by fear of the DoE/Secretary of State, who ultimately seem to fear parents. Now, I don't mind a bit of healthy respect for parents in schools, but I want teachers and head teachers to be able to do their jobs, which are jobs that I could never do. People who are terrified and stressed do not do a good job.
This is political with a small p, and I absolutely don't want to get any party jumping on this bandwagon, because they all do it; they are crushing what was good in the education system, which CAN ONLY come from people - there is no statistical table in the world that can teach my child. I want some kind of change, some kind of different attitude; high expectations of schools but also high expectations of the way we treat education in society. I absolutely do not want teachers hounded out of the profession, head teachers dying of heart attacks due to professional stress, and for the job to become un-doable.
And as a PS: thank you Mrs K, Miss E, Mrs W, Mrs C, Mrs F, Mr B and Mr C (oh and Miss S and Miss B as well as leaders) - you are giving my dc the most wonderful start in life. I feel terrible that three of you have felt unable to stay in classroom teaching and another was driven almost to the edge very recently.