to help defend teachers jobs. If any serious fight against unemployment is to be waged by the labour moveClass lines However, within the NUT bursee this happen. Following the recent standards of the teaching 'profession' staff.
Unfortunately, large sections of fidence in Tyndale. see the struggle against the cut-backs TEACHE SERVICES Over the past few weeks, teachers at William Tyndale Junior School in Islington have been refusing their managers access to the school. They have been forced into this action because of a vicious political campaign by Labour councillors, managers and the right-wing press accusing them of political indoctrination' of the children at Tyndale.
These allegations were started by a part-time teacher who produced a Black Paper' on thè school which she distributed amongst parents, at the same time informing them that their children were being taught by Reds. School managers took up these allegations and with the help of Islington Labour councillors instigated a petition against the teaching Parents started to remove their chilaren trom me school and as a result the managers called for a special inspection into the school to restore public conThey have succeeded in this request as the Chairman of the ILEA Sub-Committee, Harvey Hinds, has now had the approval of his commitone other - possibly a legal person from the educational disciplinary Tribunal.
But the inspection is a patently manipulative manoeuvre by the managers and the ILEA to do what they want with the school. A recommendation as a result of an inspection' that the school should be 're-organised would give the author ities the chance to rid the school of its socialist teachers - not sack all the staff, just divide them. It could also set a precedent for carrying out the LabourImposed cur-backs in education: teachers must 'go' because they're not 'satisfac tory' - a neat cover up to convince parents that a cut-back by another name will smell sweeter'.
A campaign has been set up to support the Tyndale staff and call for a full independent inquiry into the activities of the managers over the past to monus. unt this has taken place, and until the staff have been allowed to get on with their job without harassment, there can be no accurate assessment of the school or its educational poncy (Secretary, The Support William Tyndale Junior School Campaign)
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