
The Now Show - 24th March
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
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The Importance of Language in Schools
Schools and colleges are lumped into four un-nuanced categories. Outstanding... Good ...requires improvement and inadequate. It's all stems, of course, from Westminster's obsession with treating everything in life like it's a business - but schools are not businesses. And come to think of it, why does everybody have to be graded and assessed the whole time except MPs? They don't get treated like this. If they did, it might actually be quite helpful. The response of schools to these gradings tends to follow a predictable pattern. For example, schools in the top two categories will immediately invest in a large banner, which will attach the railings by the school entrance,. where
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