Jonathan Porter

Jonathan Porter is the Deputy Head (Academic) at Radley College

I’m worried about what Labour might do to our schools

From our UK edition

In my first lesson teaching Year 8 in inner-city Birmingham, one boy, seeing the opening slide of my ‘Introduction to Judaism’ PowerPoint, rocked back on his chair, and, with a level of focus that he never matched again, simply said, ‘I f***ing hate the Jews.’ The Teach First training programme had promised us ‘challenging’ schools.