Education has certainly been a controversial subject in the last few years. Nearly every month the media focuses on some aspect of schools, usually in a very negative fashion, writes Trevor Cooling.
So attention flits from the Chief Inspector of School's opinion that there are 15,000 incompetent teachers who should be 'weeded out', to the statement by the Chief Executive of the Government's main curriculum body that an 'anything goes' moral relativism is rampant, to the news that in one Birmingham primary school Muslim children are being taught exclusively Muslim RE in separate classes from the other children in the school.
Should evangelical Christians be concerned about the state of our nation's schools? The answer is most emphatically yes. In particular we should be aware of the increasing pressures on teachers.
