Teachers should not be “campaigners” on contested issues, the Ofsted chief inspector will say today, urging staff to maintain their “own impartiality” while guiding pupils through “disputed territory”.
Speaking at the Festival of Education this morning, Amanda Spielman will warn that children are “growing up in an online world that both reflects and fuels the atomisation and polarisation of society”.
People “exist in self-sustaining echo chambers that encourage conflict, rather than discussion”, she will add.
