The PPTA has waded into the David Benson-Pope saga today, saying that: "How is it that politicians can be so keen to ensure teachers behave yet behave so abusively towards each other?", and called on MPs to focus on the important issues facing the education sector instead.
Their argument is rather seriously flawed here. First of all, the main issue is not the individual allegations, but Benson-Pope's response to them since they arose. He denied them outright and has at the very least mislead Parliament, if not lied outright to it. Parliament must be concerned with that, as our system relies on Parliament being able to trust that Ministers are telling them the truth.
That is the primary problem here - not the allegations themselves, but the fact that DBP subsequently lied about it, and so under our Parliamentary system, he should no longer be a Minister (or even an MP).
It is not about MPs taking on teachers in general - just one of them who has become a Minister but who lies to the House.
Of course a cynic would say that the PPTA is so much in Labour's camp anyway, that it is in their interests to stop criticism of a Labour Minister...silvy melody download
Their argument is rather seriously flawed here. First of all, the main issue is not the individual allegations, but Benson-Pope's response to them since they arose. He denied them outright and has at the very least mislead Parliament, if not lied outright to it. Parliament must be concerned with that, as our system relies on Parliament being able to trust that Ministers are telling them the truth.
That is the primary problem here - not the allegations themselves, but the fact that DBP subsequently lied about it, and so under our Parliamentary system, he should no longer be a Minister (or even an MP).
It is not about MPs taking on teachers in general - just one of them who has become a Minister but who lies to the House.
Of course a cynic would say that the PPTA is so much in Labour's camp anyway, that it is in their interests to stop criticism of a Labour Minister...silvy melody download
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