ABSTRACT
In Chapter 1 you have read the criticisms levelled at the government by Julian Wroe on behalf of his colleagues in Barnsley schools. This is what you might expect from mining (now ex-mining) communities, solidly Labour. Here is another attack on recent policy, this time from a southeast Tory heartland, Kent. During the time that Nick Henwood was writing his chapter for this book, his Director of Educational Services, Roy Pryke, published the following broadside in the Times Educational Supplement. The response to the article, from inside and outside Kent, was noisy.
