I’m sure they could do without the overhauls every few years, but this one’s important.
Agreed.
Overhauling shouldn’t be taken lightly, it has a negative effect on the students who have to adapt to these changes suddenly (whilst sitting exams which can/will affect the future course of their lives).
But this past decade of overhauls has absolutely put secondary education in a worse state than it was in before. This needs to be corrected.
Pre-2013 secondary education already had a big issue with “just memorise it” in my experience of doing exams back then, to hear it’s only gotten even worse the past few years is very distressing.
The linked article doesn’t go into detail about why there was an attempted right-wing takeover so here’s a TL;DR from this Guardian article:
Restore Trust opposes what it describes as a “woke” agenda – including National Trust displays about slavery and historical figures – and has said it wants to steer the charity “back to its core purpose of looking after our heritage and countryside”.
[Restore Trust] was led by a group of longstanding National Trust members “who are concerned that the NT has abandoned its original remit and is now, like much of the charitable and third sector, pursuing a politically motivated ‘revisionist’ agenda”.
How dare the National Trust, who owns more than 200 historic houses, want to teach people about history? /s
It’s just blatant vice signalling. So, yeah, glad to see this attempted takeover failed.