From Guardian letters:
It's a shame David Cameron did not sack Michael Gove as education secretary. Cameron has complained about "dithering" in his government. Gove's response to the alarming shortage of primary school places is a case in point. We need 500,000 new school places by 2015. Gove's free-school programme will perhaps deliver 20,000. It is also costly and, in some cases, wasteful. Gove is so hidebound by ideology – the privatisation of education – that he cannot rise to the challenge. If we are to restore faith in our education system, Gove must go.
Alasdair Smith
Anti Academies Alliance
It's a shame David Cameron did not sack Michael Gove as education secretary. Cameron has complained about "dithering" in his government. Gove's response to the alarming shortage of primary school places is a case in point. We need 500,000 new school places by 2015. Gove's free-school programme will perhaps deliver 20,000. It is also costly and, in some cases, wasteful. Gove is so hidebound by ideology – the privatisation of education – that he cannot rise to the challenge. If we are to restore faith in our education system, Gove must go.
Alasdair Smith
Anti Academies Alliance
