no the real shitstorm for teachers started in thatch's regime.
the national curriculum, SAT tests, responsible for your own budget, the money following the market....ring any bells.....keith joseph? Sheila lawlor, tory think tanks....?

Blair was a public school wallah who understood nought of education, education, education, tory nastiness, and much else. Still he knew how to get elected.

There's a definite feeling of crisis, what crisis about you guys....enjoy the next 18 years of tory rule. That's what the last period of indifference to public disquiet, and 'we're left wing perfect people' cost us.

Good old Michael Foot. My Quaker, Green peace, CND parents loved him.