David Cameron is quoted as saying (November 15) in a speech on schools that: “It is vital to shine a spotlight on secret failure”.
This is a puzzling exhortation which seems to suggest that headteachers and their staff in Oxfordshire and beyond are wilfully hiding what. SATS results, school records on individual pupils, GCSE and AS/A2 results?
Senator Joseph McCarthy used to say that he would shine a spotlight on ‘secret’ communists in post-war USA and ‘gun them down’. Is this what Mr Cameron has in mind?
BRUCE ROSS-SMITH, Bowness Avenue, Headington
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