Censorship row over Carol Ann Duffy Poem

Teachers have attacked politicians' meddling in the national curriculum and the censorship of English literature, warning against the schools secretary, Ed Balls, winning the power to dictate what pupils read and learn.

Delegates at the annual conference of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) voted to raise the issue of censorship with Balls following the banning of Carol Ann Duffy's poem Education for Leisure, which refers to knife crime, from an AQA exam board anthology last year after "extreme pressure" from a group of MPs.

Pfft.

Comments

[jim]

Bla bla bla. Censorship in all forms. Never got any Spicer in second grade. Teachers censor all the time. Trust them no more than the politicians.

wrote a bit about it here
http://canofcornforyou2.blogspot.com/search?q=duffy

[John Sparrow]

Ed Balls. That pretty much sums it up.