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January 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Gavin Allen
Last updated at 5:09 PM on 4th January 2012
‘Happy to fail’: Michael Gove slammed schools who are fighting plans to turn the weakest primaries into academies
Education Secretary Michael Gove has blasted local authorities opposing plans to replace 200 of the worst primary schools in England with academies, claiming they are ‘happy with failure’.
Mr Gove said most local authorities were being ‘co-operative and constructive’ towards the Government plans to make the weakest primary schools into academies.
However, he said some were being ‘obstructive’ in their approach and putting central control ahead of the interests of children.
‘They are more concerned with protecting old ways of working than helping the most disadvantaged children succeed in the future,’ he said in a speech at an academy in south-east London.
‘Anyone who cares about social justice must want us to defeat these ideologues and liberate the next generation from a history of failure.’
Mr Gove singled out Haringey in his speech, saying he had been asked ‘not to challenge’ the leadership of the lowest performing schools in the deprived north London borough.
‘But for years, hundreds of children have grown up effectively illiterate and innumerate,’ he said.
‘In one of the most disadvantaged parts of our capital city, poor children have been deprived of the skills they need to succeed.
‘Defenders of the status quo say these schools shouldn’t be judged in this way because they have a different approach – they are creative or inclusive.
‘But you can’t be creative if you can’t read properly and speak fluently – you can’t be included in the world of work if you aren’t numerate.’
He added that the same ‘ideologues’ and ‘enemies of promise’ who were ‘happy with failure’ claimed that it was not possible to get the same results in the inner cities as the ‘leafy suburbs’.
Old prejudices: Gove says the obstructions are because failing schools don’t believe inner city children can achieve the same levels as those in the suburbs
‘Let’s be clear what these people mean. Let’s hold their prejudices up to the light,’ he said.
‘What are they saying? “If you’re poor, if you’re Turkish, if you’re Somali, then we don’t expect you to succeed. You will always be second class and it’s no surprise your schools are second class”.
‘I utterly reject that attitude.
‘It’s the bigoted backward bankrupt ideology of a left wing establishment that perpetuates division and denies opportunity.’
Mr Gove’s speech at Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham College in south-east London, highlighted a recent study by academics at the London School of Economics, who found the academies programme generated ‘a significant improvement in pupil performance’.
The Government also released its latest figures for academies.
There are now 1,529 academies, compared with only 200 when the coalition came to power. Of those, 1,194 have been converted from schools, while 335 have been sponsored.
A total of 45 per cent of all maintained secondary schools are either open or in the pipeline to become academies, he said.
Mr Gove said more than 700 maintained primary schools were either open or in the pipeline to become academies, ranging from small rural to large urban primaries.
He added that in 16 local authorities there were more than 10 per cent of primary schools open or in the pipeline to become academies.
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