The PM banging on – again – about numeracy doesn’t look likely to provoke the conflict he’s hoping for
think numeracy is important. I love maths! We need to crush all the people who think maths isn’t important! Maths matters so much for our children and our economy! And to stop the boats! We need to be able to count the boats accurately so we know how many we haven’t stopped!”
On the face of it, the obvious people to blame are those running the country’s education policy but unfortunately, for the past 13 years, that’s the Conservative party, so he’s side-stepped that and is attempting to make it a “cultural” issue. You know, like the “culture wars”. Which are to do with the left. “Culture” is their fault – it’s the responsibility of luvvies and Gary Lineker and the BBC.
Sadly for the prime minister, his initiative doesn’t look likely to provoke the conflict he’s hoping for. Nobody disagrees about the importance of maths. It is a genuine point of consensus. People just doubt that the improvements he says he wants will ever come because he mentioned the problem earlier in the year and nothing has happened since then except strikes and, as the shadow education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, put it, “existing teachers leaving in their droves”.
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