High price of polemic

United Kingdom Schools Chief Inspector Chris Woodhead may hinder the efforts of failing schools to mount an improvement strategy by criticising them in public. The government must help inner city schools with their recruitment difficulties if they are going to improve. Parents, school governors and teachers often work hard to address problems within failing schools but a lack of staff remains a constant difficulty. Woodhead failed to mention the positive points noted in the Office of Education Standards report on Lewisham Bridge primary school, when he spoke of its weaknesses.