Academy Confidential: True Stories from Beyond the School Gates - Softcover

Our schools are failing. Despite the fact that our teachers are working harder than ever, despite what your leadership team or Ofsted tells you, our schools are failing. Consequently, so are our students. Schools should be places where students feel nurtured and cared for, places where they can thrive whilst exploring ideas and their academic and emotional potential. Instead, they are battery farms where we churn out kids that are fattened up on exam technique and drilled into answering questions to hit a particular criterion.Academy Confidential is an undercover expose into what happens behind those closed school gates, of everything you need to know – and some of the things you wish you didn’t know – about academies and schools in the UK. A tell-all, revealing look into how quickly multi-academy trusts can take over so called ‘failing’ schools and turn them into autonomous academies, crushing staff morale under the weight of spiralling and unrealistic expectations, leaving teachers reaching for the Citalopram.It is harrowing, gripping and compelling, Cefn Thomas is fed up with the bullying and mistreatment that he has witnessed and he’s here to tell you exactly why.