\"I want children in school, and I want children learning to be the engineers, the climate scientists, the geographers of the future. And you\u2019ve got a much better chance of that being in school than not being in school. \u00a0I would also say to those children, it is great that they take an interest in this topic, which is one of the biggest topics facing us as a country and as a world. \u00a0But they can actually take some pride in what this country has been doing. When you talk to people in other governments around the world, they do talk about what this country has done, and the leadership role that we have taken on climate change. \u00a0But there\u2019s more that we need to do, clearly there is more that as a community we need to do. \u00a0So yes in that respect, yes I\u2019m delighted those children are taking a keen interest. But I would rather they were in school.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n I see that Mr Gove has written in support of the students striking for climate change. \u00a0He would never have done that had he still been Education Secretary of State which say s a lot. At the same time, the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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This is not quite what I've been arguing \u2013 that students should be agitating inside schools against the complacency of heads and governors \u2013 for a curriculum focus on such contemporary issues. \u00a0Meanwhile, I hear there'd a petition somewhere started by Oxford school students for compulsory curriculum change lessons. \u00a0Mr Hinds won't like that much either.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"