Parents keeping children at home due to disputes with schools, headteachers say
Some parents are keeping their children at home due to disputes with schools, a headteachers’ union chief is to say.
John Camp, president of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), will warn that the “unwritten social contract” between families and schools is “fracturing”.
In a speech at the union’s annual conference on Friday, Mr Camp will call for a “change of tone” in the national conversation about education to ensure people “talk up” schools and colleges.
He will suggest that some politicians and commentators who are “constantly running down” schools and teachers are “helping to
