Teachers should be nurturing the next PM and NOT pushing politics on kids

WHEN I was a ten-year-old schoolgirl, I was obsessed with learning my times tables, playing with my Sindy doll’s house and badgering my mum for a new ra-ra dress. Writing to Maggie Thatcher about soaring unemployment and the miners’ strike after watching a bit of John Craven’s Newsround really wasn’t my thing. 7 Teachers should leave their political views at the school gates or leave their jobs Credit: Getty I was therefore surprised to read this week that kids aged ten and 11 at Welbeck Primary School in Nottingham had proudly posted pictures on Twitter of eloquent letters to their… Read Full Article