Letters: pastoral care is essential in schools | Schools
Today’s schools are deprived of ‘hope, vision and investment’. Photograph: redsnapper/Alamy Sonia Sodha’s article should be cut out and pinned up in every politician’s kitchen, where the day begins and ends (“The kids aren’t all right – and the government has stopped caring”, Comment). She establishes clearly how the 21st century began with hope, vision and investment, all three of which are now consigned to the dustbin by Boris Johnson’s so-called government. During the 1970s, I was a deputy head in a comprehensive scho...