“Appalled” headteachers have accused Kit Malthouse of “taking cheap shots at a profession already on its knees” after he described “mediocrity” in the school system.
Geoff Barton, general secretary of ASCL and Evelyn Forde, the union’s president and a serving headteacher, have written to the education secretary to express “dismay” over his address to the Conservative Party conference.
The education secretary told delegates in Birmingham yesterday that England’s school system needs “constant attention and constant pressure” from government to “drive it forward”.
