Sadly there is a small group of parents who do not respect education.
"Steve Sinnott" was the General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers from 2004 until his death in 2008.
Born in Liverpool, Sinnott became deputy General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers in 1994 in the middle of his year as National President of the Union.
Sinnott was the first President of the Union to have attended a comprehensive school. He took a four-year Bachelor of Arts degree/BA in Social Sciences at Middlesex Polytechnic, graduating in 1974, and a Postgraduate Certificate of Education/PGCE at Edge Hill University/Edge Hill College in Ormskirk in 1975.
His first teaching post in 1975 was at Shorefields Comprehensive, Liverpool, where he taught humanities. In 1979 he moved to Broughton High School near Preston, Lancashire/Preston, where he became head of economics and business studies. He stayed with the school until his election as NUT Deputy General Secretary in November 1994.
Sinnott was an outspoken critic of both teaching salaries and the British Government's City academies, and in his role as General Secretary of the Union, he was to have led the first national teachers strike in the UK since 1987, over the issue of pay. Following his death from a heart attack, the Union said that the strike would still go ahead.
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Sadly, there is a small group of parents who do not respect education and they come not just from deprived circumstances but from among the better-off as well. This attitude seriously damages children's future prospects and leaves them vulnerable to the temptations and dangers of the streets.
There is a view that the promotion of greater influence of faith groups in running our schools could be detrimental to community cohesion and social cohesion.
Parents taking children out of school to go shopping or on holiday is very irresponsible and can have a destructive impact on their education.
The idea of allowing youngsters to stay in a school that is just withering on the vine is just terrible.
It is pandering to the pushy middle classes at the expense of children in less advantaged circumstances. A period of calm would be more welcome in our schools than yet another period of change.
Despite the government's crude mechanism for measuring primary children's achievement, the underlying message is that primary teachers have sustained and secured further improvements in pupil performance. This is a very real cause for celebration. The government is now, rightly, distancing itself from the targets it had previously plucked out of the air.
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