English teacher Rebecca Bradley never thought her long Facebook post about cuts to school budgets and reforms in the curriculum would quickly make her a poster girl, but the candid post struck a chord among teachers and parents across Britain, collecting over 6,400 likes and thousands of comments.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI was watching a clip with Justine Greening on grammar schools, and she kept reiterating that the Tory Party had increased their spending on education to record levels,\u201d<\/em> Bradley told RT in describing what had motivated her to write the long post.<\/p>\n \u201cThe BBC reporter, whose name escapes me at the minute, kept calling her out on it, but she just kept pushing this angle. And I just couldn\u2019t deal with that.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n In the Facebook note, the teacher of 12 years describes how rules for new GCSE exams are constantly changing, leaving both students and teachers at a loss. She also lists how the Tories\u2019 grammar school program is diverting state funds to schools that will effectively benefit children from richer households<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a clear fact that house prices in [grammar school] catchment areas are higher. It\u2019s a clear fact that middle-class families usually spend on tutoring and so more middle-class children get into grammar schools,\u201d<\/em> the King\u2019s School Hove teacher wrote in her now well-known post.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy do we need to build more schools when we can just give more money to existing ones? It\u2019s easy to improve a school. Stop cutting funding and invest in decent support services.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n However, what seemed to catch the public\u2019s imagination were the severe cuts to school funding that has resulted in fewer teachers and teaching assistants, as well as fewer subjects and less pastoral support.<\/p>\n
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