Last week, at a sustainable schools event, in a presentation, a teacher said: " When you get your third Green Flag, you've more or less reached sustainability."
No, I thought: No, NO!
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I believe that this attitude is also present in my local schools that have such 'achievements'. However, the tendency here is that such achievements are also important for the actual 'certificate' and the percieved meritocratic aspect. The end product rather than the process is seen as an end in itself.