The Department of Education is notoriously bad at answering freedom of information requests, even being put under special monitoring by the information commissioner’s office in December last year because of past inadequacies in answering queries. So it’s doubly impressive that Janet Downs, a retired teacher and campaigner who is part of the Local Schools Network, not only managed to get an answer from them, but also extract an excruciating confession about what passes for “evidence” in Michael Gove’s department.
Querying a claim made in article in the Mail on Sunday titled “I refuse to surrender to the Marxist teachers hell-bent on destroying our schools: Education Secretary berates ‘the new enemies of promise’ for opposing his plans“, Downs asked for the background to Gove’s claim that:
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