Top schools could be labelled failures due to race rules
2nd January 2010
Schools risk being branded inadequate by government inspectors for failing to promote race relations, gender equality and human rights.
This is why it’s always a bad idea to allow government intrusion into education, because then everything in school becomes a political decision subject to political fads.
Even those with good educational records could be placed in “special measures” by Ofsted under new rules that put equality on a par with exam results and child safety. Official guidance tells inspectors to be aware of “gender imbalances” in upper-ability sets and ensure that after-school sport is not dominated by pupils from one ethnic group.
Britain: A nation where a ‘good educational record’ isn’t enough to qualify as a ‘good’ school.
Actually, if it means that said schools will be less attractive to those whose chief interest is ‘race relations, gender equality and human rights’, and they wind up with those who are merely interested in an education, it could prove a blessing in disguise.