Rishi Sunak must invest in smaller class sizes if he really wants to improve education: Yorkshire Post Letters

From: Dave Lambert, Keighley.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak told The Yorkshire Post last month that education and skills need to be at the heart of the country's economic recovery. Photo: James Hardisty.Chancellor Rishi Sunak told The Yorkshire Post last month that education and skills need to be at the heart of the country's economic recovery. Photo: James Hardisty.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak told The Yorkshire Post last month that education and skills need to be at the heart of the country's economic recovery. Photo: James Hardisty.

YOU reported Rishi Sunak saying that education and skills hold the key to recovery (The Yorkshire Post, July 8). He went on to say that the nearest thing to a silver bullet in public policy is education and the most important thing to do for people is to furnish them with a brilliant education.

The reason that the good public/private fee-paying schools provide very good education is they have small, manageable class sizes.

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If local authority schools had maximum class sizes of 20 to 24 pupils per class, with appropriate teaching support, both teachers and pupils would have the chances to fulfill their potential.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak in Northallerton last month. Photo: James Hardisty.Chancellor Rishi Sunak in Northallerton last month. Photo: James Hardisty.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak in Northallerton last month. Photo: James Hardisty.

This would give everyone the opportunity of a brilliant education and would eradicate the old boy network, replacing it with a network of opportunity for everyone.

If Mr Sunak (and Mr Johnson) are really serious they will invest a lot of our money in our schools network, as was spent to try and save the economy in this virus pandemic. If only, but I feel the Yorkshire Halo of Mr Sunak slipped a bit when he did not fully support One Yorkshire.

Does he really mean what he says or is his heart with the Parliament/Whitehall southern Tory bias and not with us all in the rest of the country?

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James Mitchinson

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