Your hastily bashed out document ignores what schools have been doing for years under your predecessors’ guidelines

I see that you’ve waded into the area of impartiality in teaching, and your reason for this seems to be that some students are not fans of your boss, Boris Johnson. As reported by the BBC: “The education secretary says schools must not tackle political issues in a ‘partisan’ way after pupils were asked to write a letter that criticised the prime minister during a lesson.”

Less than a fortnight later, you published new guidelines on “political impartiality in schools”.

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